History Characters / WerewolfTheForsaken

* MakeMeWannaShout: The "Doomcry" aspect of Halaku mimics the effect of the Word of Quiet gift.

* PetTheDog: IncrediblyLamePun aside, the Forsaken have a great deal of pity for Alan Donning, and consider him a distant relative by adoption. The packs politely ignore him and even give him what comfort they can, when they can spare it.

The Tribe of Winter Wolf, Storm Lords are [[TheLeader the alledged Alphas and leaders of the Forsaken]]. [[ThePerfectionist perfectionists]] and [[TheStoic cold]], they fight in ruthless environments and weather, defeating stronger enemies by [[VictoryByEndurance enduring where their opponents cannot]]. Their preferred preys are the Ridden and Spirit-Claimed. Their addition to the Oath of the Moon is "Allow no one to witness or tend your weakness".

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The slow transformation does an absolute ''number'' to the Zoonotic's body, grinding bones and putting massive strain on the organs. Most Zoonotics die from the side effects well before they ever really become full-on animal-people.

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* BlackSheep: Regarded as such by both sets of (possible) siblings, and proclaims himself as such.

* DaylightHorror: They attack at the end of summer.

* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]; while they prefer to rely on rites and other more intellectual means to win as a last resort, they do respect those among them who chose such a path as having a Heart mightier than their claws.

* LeanAndMean: ''Averted''; as noted above, they tend to look leaner than most werewolves even in Gauru form, but they aren't particularly eviler than any other Forsaken Tribe, and definitely nicer than the Pure.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Averted. Gifmalu Igizalag is actually First Tongue, and basically translates as "Perfect Dusk Watchman" -- something that the average spirit or werewolf wouldn't blink an eye at, and hardly the most intimidating of monikers even by human standards.

* WeAREStrugglingTogether: Intra-Host cooperation is a fairly rare event, since all Hosts are compelled to devour each other to get stronger. When it happens, usually there's a singular strong and developed Host able to keep them all in line.
** Averted with the Beshilu. Perhaps because they are the weakest of all Hosts, perhaps because of influence from their ratly nature, whatever the reason, they are far more communal than Hosts tend to be and so are usually found in groups.

* EnemyMine: Averted. You'd think that with their goal of tearing down the Gauntlet, they'd be natural allies for the Pure, and that even their affinity for disease would be okay with the Fire-Touched, who tend to worship disease. But Beshilu have an insanely strong phobia of werewolves, too strong to even consider the idea as opposed to ripping the Pure apart.

* BlackEyesOfCrazy[=/=]BlackEyesOfEvil: It's hard to say which more accurately describes someone willing to yank out their eyes so they can spy on people in the guise of a toad.

** Weirdly averted; if a toad is killed whilst being possessed, the eyes will usually survive completely unharmed. There's also a secondary ritual where, if the mystic's eyes are destroyed, they can grow new ones over a base of rock crystal.

** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: The reason there are still black-eyed toads around; being a toad is an excellent way to go unnoticed, and learn all kinds of valuable secrets, and there are people who consider it worthwhile for that alone.

* MadDoctor: Averted. He is a doctor, and he is mad, but the two aren't linked--in his medical life, he's perfectly sane and helpful. Did go through a phase where he attempted to use chimp skin grafts in place of human ones, but that was motivated by desperation more than anything.

Introduced in ''Dark Eras''. The Mexica empire-known to modern historians as the Aztecs-lived in a far more [[DarkFantasy blatantly magical]] world before the conquistadores came. For example, it was actually an article of common knowledge that properly trained people could take the form of animals and learn the secrets of spiritual magic from them. Such as it was with these three varieties of shapeshifter, each from a quite different branch of Mexica life. The ''nahualtin'' (singular ''nahualli''), the priesthood of the rain-makers and keepers of social order, trained trusted members in their ranks to take the form of beasts [[SecretPolice to keep watch on seditious elements]]. The Mystery Warriors were members of the normal Jaguar and Eagle branches of the Aztec military who were trained in skintheiving their namesakes as a reward for the many captives and victories they brought to their people. Finally, the Cihuatlactah were not actually sanctioned members of Aztec society, and in fact became as such in vicious defiance-for they were all women who grew so sick of their [[StayInTheKitchen gender role]] they [[LivingBodysuit stole the skin of men]], just to finally see what it was like, having freedom and power.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Nothing says you have to be an awful person and be one of the Aztec skinthieves--the example Cihuatleth killed her donor while defending her father and only learned the trick to legally pardon him for teaching her male crafts, and both the Mystery Warriors are chivalrous {{Nice Guy}}s. By Aztec standards, the ''nahualtin'' aren't evil either, just making sure society runs smoothly and the sacrifices keep coming. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Operative term being]] [[DeliberateValuesDissonance "Aztec standards"]], and even then they're still pretty terrifying.
* TheDreaded: The ''nahualtin'' invoke this quite deliberately to make their jobs easier--it's a lot more appealing to be loyal when you know that the owl in the trees could be a lower-ranking priest, and ''any'' animal (or ghost, or human, or spirit...) a master among them.

* MalevolentMutilation: The ''nahualtin'' aren't hypocrites about human blood feeding the gods--they happily cut themselves open to donate their own to the altars, and thus you can usually tell them by the network of scars they bear. Given how they're the shapeshifting SecretPolice, they count.

* ScaryAmoralReligion: Averted for the ''nahualtin''--their religion condones human sacrifice, but it's made quite clear [[BlueAndOrangeMorality they, and everyone else they know, think it's necessary to keep the sun going]]. They have a pretty strong sense of good and evil behavior, and do what they need to in order to keep people on the good path.

* VillainousCrossdresser: Averted for the Cihuatlactah. They all have skinned at least one person, but the place of Aztec women is [[NoWomansLand often so fucking miserable]] that becoming men, even briefly, is often the only way they remain sane.

In the days of Pangaea, Father Wolf existed alongside many other spirits of equal might. One of these was Uha, Raven, a trickster spirit who loved to test his wit and skill against those of Father Wolf. Though he was always careful to respect Father Wolf's authority and keep from pushing the great hunter's temper too far, not all of Uha's brood was so clever. One such spirit, Nam Uha, let his pride get the best of him, wreaking such havoc and harassing Father Wolf to the extent that the great hunter ultimately had no choice to hunt Nam Uha down. Though the hunt ended the only way it could have done, with Nam Uha being devoured, the spirit made a plan to escape. It left a "spirit egg" in the body of a human woman, hoping that this would allow Nam Uha to reincarnate after death. And from this action was born the Black Flock, a lineage of Claimed all hosting incarnations of the same trickster-raven spirit.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: The first of the Thar Akuru was, in effect, a perfect copy of Nam Uha... but completely devoid of any sense of identity or or guiding purpose. When it finally figured out what it was, it found it couldn't voluntarily leave its body, even upon death.
** Also, the whole point of propagating the Flock -- to one day free and restore Nam Uha -- is pretty much impossible at this point. Each spirit that is part of the flock is, really, its own individual, so if it were set free, it wouldn't be Nam Uha reborn but an entirely new spirit.

* YourSoulIsMine: A Thar Aku consumes the soul of its mortal flesh when its spirit egg hatches inside of them.

* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: As mentioned above, Scavenger Wolf is now, mentally, more human than spirit.

* YouDirtyRat: The sample Animera is a batch of rats who have been injected with human neural development cells.

* DemonicPossession: [[AvertedTrope Nope]]. Some Forsaken think it's a species of lust spirit that figured out a way to spawn Claimed through a method of reproduction, but the lust spirits that congregate around a Versipellitus patient are symptoms, not the cause.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Averted. Although werewolves spread a lot of stories claiming a magical origin for it, the sourcebook it appears in[[note]]Night Horrors: Wolfsbane[[/note]] claims it's just an ordinary disease that was mutated by exposure to the Shadow. It's mostly mundane with some magical elements.

* TheChick: Cahalith frequently serve as the moral core of their packs, ensuring the psychological well-being of their comrades.

%%* DeathBySex: The most likely result if someone follow the common saying since it involves passionate, nubile neighbors to drown out their song.%%Bad grammar makes it difficult to tell what this example is trying to say.

* DreamWalker: In 2E, one of their Gift, Dream Hunter, allows them to form a connection with a prey and enter said prey's dreams. This can be used to collect informations on the prey's location... [[YourWorstNightmare or to attack her in her dream]].

* YourWorstNightmare: Dream Hunter can be used to terrorize a person in her dreams. This won't actually harm her, but it ''will'' leave her paranoid and exhausted.

** At least the Predator Kings and the Ivory Claws are based on Tribes from ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse''. The Ivory Claws are based on both the Silver Fangs, arrogant werewolf aristocrats whose inbreeding [[DependingOnTheWriter may]] have been driving them to insanity and extincion, and the Get of Fenris who never recovered, InUniverse or out, for the fact that a large faction of them happily aligned themselves with the Nazis and say their ideology as complementary to National Socialism. The Predator Kings are derived from the Red Talons, a vehemently [[FantasticRacism anti-human]] tribe with a major faction pushing to genocidally cull humans to the point of near-extinction and to destroy human civilization, especially the technology that it depended upon.
** The Urazakh-Angir, a werewolf born to a werewolf father and a normal wolf mother, is a reference to the Lupus breed. (wolf-born) werewolf subrace from ''Apocalypse.''

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Seeing how they are mediators and negotiators, you wouldn't expect them to be that great in a fight... Except that one of their Gifts, Fuel Rage, allow them to maintain the [[SuperMode Gaurou]] form for longer periods of time. And another, Bind of Sunder, not only allows them to do it for other werewolves, but also to ''reduce'' the time they stay in Gauru form.
** Comes 2E, their Auspice ability allows them to either "cure" or trigger Death Rage once per chapter-- meaning they can single-handedly prevent or provoke a fight.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: A slightly different variant than Rahu; Irraka tend to constantly analyze everyone and everything around them, looking for weaknesses, trying to figure out the most effective way to break or kill what they are looking at, [[CrazyPrepared even when they don't intend to]]. Other Uratha who catch an Irraka watching them for too long frequently mutter them to stop thinking about murdering them.
** the Sense Weakness Gift allows them to uncover someone's personal weaknesses in mind and body just by observing them for a moment. This grants information such as a character's flaws, derangements or Vice.

2nd Edition added to each tribe a preferred type of prey to hunt.

The Tribe of Red Wolf, Iron Masters believe in adapting with the change of the world in order to survive. This has resulted in them gaining affinity with [[UrbanFantasy an urban environment]], and [[PostModernMagic in particular using new technologies]]. Their preferred prey is humans, though they also extend most urban supernaturals to their juridiction. Their addition to the Oath of the Moon is "Honor your territory in all things".

Those werewolves who reject the Forsaken's mission and claim to embrace Father Wolf over Luna. Because they lack Luna's blessings, they have no Auspice and are weaker to silver. What they do have, however, is a much larger number than the Forsaken (they roughly out-number them 2 to 1) and stronger ties to the Shadow, meaning they can rely on numerous spirit allies and powerful Totems to give them an edge on their cousins. Unfortunately, they also are generally hostile toward the Tribes of the Moon, and actively hunt them.

* FallenHero: Invoked in universe. Some werewolves wonder if they are Shards from Father Wolf himself.

* AnAxeToGrind: The Serpent Guardians who claim human hosts always wield massive great axes. Nobody knows why, they just refuse to use any other weapon if they have a choice.

* PoisonousFriend: If you have a Bale Hound in your party, congratulations; they're going to work towards converting you if they can or killing you if they can't. Or if it's just more expedient.

* UncannyValley: An InUniverse example; Anaba'hi sometimes takes the form of an eleven-year old girl, but she hasn't quite mastered how to perfectly mimic human emotions yet. Her smile does not reach her dead eyes and her movements and mannerisms always seem off when compared to the human students.

** At least the Predator Kings and the Ivory Claws are based on Tribes from ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' who were so unpopular with fans that they, at best, classified as {{Token Evil Teammate}}s. The Ivory Claws are based on both the Silver Fangs, arrogant werewolf aristocrats whose inbreeding [[DependingOnTheWriter may]] have been driving them to insanity and extincion, and the Get of Fenris who never recovered, InUniverse or out, for the fact that a large faction of them happily aligned themselves with the Nazis and say their ideology as complementary to National Socialism. The Predator Kings are derived from the Red Talons, a vehemently [[FantasticRacism anti-human]] tribe with a major faction pushing to genocidally cull humans to the point of near-extinction and to destroy human civilization, especially the technology that it depended upon.
** The Urazakh-Angir, a werewolf born to a werewolf father and a normal wolf mother, is a reference to the Lupines (wolf-born) werewolf subrace from ''Apocalypse'', which many fans disliked due to its [[BestialityIsDepraved unpleasant connotations]].

* ILoveNuclearPower: Already a powerful... something, it became even more powerful after being hit by a nuclear test in the Moruroa atoll.

* BalefulPolymorph: They were transformed into animals as a punishment; this trope goes without saying.

* BalefulPolymorph: From a disease and not magic, but the effect is the same.

* TheBerserker: They have access to both Rage and Strength gifts in 2nd ed, both of which have powers that activate for free(and will be used instinctively) by Uratha in ''Basu-im''