Root-Weaver: Clever, inventive, imaginative.Heart-Ripper: Ferocious, voracious, implacable.Den-Warder: Loyal, nurturing, protective.They often emphasize social roles and provide a sense of purpose to the feral beyond the superficial desires of their animal self and human mind. Wind-Runners: Horses, elk, deer and other lean, fast creatures.Ī feral's Accord is the place where their human instinct and animal instinct connect, a common ground which both sides of their soul can agree.Royal Apes: Monkeys, gorillas and man-like mysteries.The Pack: Wolfkin, dog-folk, hyenas and wolverines.Laughing Strangers: Foxes, hares, coyotes, raccoons and possum.Land Titans: Elephants and elusive rhino-folk.Species of the same breed might get along very well with each other, fight bitterly, or even have little or no knowledge of each other depending on the specific histories of that breed. The breeds are not like tribes among the Uratha or even like the clans of the vampires, but instead are much looser affiliations of species that are related either in outlook or through their animal kin. The Changing Folk have a number of different breeds, and within them various species. There are two parts to every Nahual: breed and accord. It comes from an Aztec word meaning "animal shadow soul" and is sometimes used to refer to the Changing Breeds in general but it more accurately describes the atavistic totem that creates the bond between Animal and Man in a feral. The Nahual (nah-HOO-al) is the animal spirit that rules a feral.
CHRONICLES OF DARKNESS CHANGING BREEDS SKIN
Skin Thieves use the flayed skin of killed animals to transform themselves, while several other creatures that have also access to multiple shapes lack a Nahual and therefore are not considered Changing Breeds in the sense how they are represented here. There are other shapechangers beside them. Changing Folk do not experience changes with the moon but instead with the fluctuating harmony between their animal and human selves. They are hurt by silver but do not share the other aspects of the Urathas' pact with Luna, especially their tie to the moon's phases. As with werewolves, the feral condition is not contagious and ferals are able to adopt different forms, but ferals are limited to three. Technically, the Uratha are part of the Changing Breeds but many of the rules that apply to Father Wolf's brood have no bearing on the feral races. The Changing Breeds, also known as ferals (or more rarely therians), are shapechangers who possess in them both Animal and Man, united into a single creature.
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