Camps, sub-tribes and other groups that are mentioned only in first or second edition are preceded by a commercial at (@); those that are only mentioned in Revised are preceded by an asterisk (*); those who are mentioned in both eras are preceded by a pound sign (#). Keep in mind that the group doesn't necessarily have to still exist in Revised to be counted - if a Revised book discusses the recent destruction of a camp, even if the camp was destroyed utterly it still counts. The presence is to discuss whether something was ret-conned or not, or whether it's a recent addition.

The Garou

Notes:

  1. I include the eclipses as "subsets" to deal with the confusion about what role eclipses play in the Auspices - both whether they represent "sixth auspices" and the difference between solar and lunar eclipses. The former occur only during the new moon, and the latter only during the full moon. Back
  2. I considered splitting the tribes into "Garou Nation" and "Other", but certain groups - like the Boli Zouhisze, Hakken, Kucha Ekundu, and others - are part of tribes that are considered as being in the Garou Nation, but are not themselves. I did not wish to list them separately as that would lead to misconceptions as to their being separate tribes or not, so I opted to lump them all together. Political entities like the Garou Nation are too complicated to be categorized. Back
  3. I've opted here to sort the tribes by totem, not tribe name. The ultimate identity - that is, the spiritual identity - of a tribe is its totem. This is especially important in cases where different regional forms of a tribe exist, with the most notable confusion being that of the Shadow Lords and Hakken. Back
  4. To my knowledge, the camps and sub-camps Avenging Mother (Black Furies), Revolutionary Guard (Shadow Lords), Inner Path (Stargazers), and Fang Breakers (Red Talons and Wendigo) are mentioned only in WW3205, the old Werewolf Storytellers Handbook. Back
  5. The We-Chon are mentioned as a Native American sub-tribe of the Stargazers in Axis Mundi, in the entry for Woneyah Konhe, the Dream Ravens. A Native-American sub-tribe is also mentioned in Tribebook: Stargazers Revised, though they are listed there as the Na-Dene Stargazers. I can only presume that these are the same group, but with different names; how many extinct Native American Stargazer sub-tribes can there be? Back
  6. The Mechanical Awakening is described in the first tribebook, and although it is mentioned in the revised tribebook it is only in the sense of "can anyone prove these things ever existed?" This is a sort of ret-con with agknowledgement that they were said to exist in the previous tribebook, but it may just be indicative of a peculiar and difficult-to-find camp. I list them as being pre-Revised only. Back
  7. Listed in Werewolf: the Dark Ages are the camps the Bellows and the Crucible, Brethren of the Book, and the Golden Wheel, all of the Glass Walkers, then called the Warders of Men; the Night-Fear and Setting Moon of the Red Talons; the Children of Famine of the Bone Gnawers; Back
  8. The camp or sub-tribe known as Ymir's Sweat is described in both the original and Revised tribebook as being entirely hypothetical, little more than a rumor. That in neither case could the Get of Fenris speaking say that they've seen the beasts or that they know anyone who has is telling. I list them here as being extinct or hypothetical (which essentially means "fake"), but it is possible - if unlikely - that they do exist in the modern day. Back
  9. In first edition, when first described, the Hakken were described as being a sub-tribe of the Shadow Lords. By second edition the authors bolted in the opposite direction, claiming the two were completely separate tribes, even though they shared the exact same tribal totem. Since a tribe is defined by its totem, it is foolish to suggest they are unrelated, and so to give the Hakken their due (describing them as a "subset" of the Shadow Lords gives them too little credit) I describe them as subsets of a greater ancestral tribe, the tribe of Grandfather Thunder. As to the Mongol Lords, they are mentioned in the Revised Tribebook, if you find yourself asking who they are. Back
  10. To my knowledge, the camps and sub-camps Avenging Mother (Black Furies), Revolutionary Guard (Shadow Lords), Inner Path (Stargazers), and Fang Breakers (Red Talons and Wendigo) are mentioned only in WW3205, the old Werewolf Storytellers Handbook. Back
  11. To my knowledge, the camps and sub-camps Avenging Mother (Black Furies), Revolutionary Guard (Shadow Lords), Inner Path (Stargazers), and Fang Breakers (Red Talons and Wendigo) are mentioned only in WW3205, the old Werewolf Storytellers Handbook. Back
  12. Listed in Werewolf: the Dark Ages are the camps the Bellows and the Crucible, Brethren of the Book, and the Golden Wheel, all of the Glass Walkers, then called the Warders of Men; the Night Fear and Setting Moon of the Red Talons; the Children of Famine of the Bone Gnawers; Back
  13. To my knowledge, the camps and sub-camps Avenging Mother (Black Furies), Revolutionary Guard (Shadow Lords), Inner Path (Stargazers), and Fang Breakers (Red Talons and Wendigo) are mentioned only in WW3205, the old Werewolf Storytellers Handbook. Back
  14. Listed in Werewolf: the Dark Ages are the camps the Bellows and the Crucible, Brethren of the Book, and the Golden Wheel, all of the Glass Walkers, then called the Warders of Men; the Night Fear and Setting Moon of the Red Talons; the Children of Famine of the Bone Gnawers; Back
  15. These two groups are mentioned in Rage Across Australia, and nowhere else to my knowledge. Back
  16. The Wangtong are mentioned in Hengeyokai, and never mentioned elsewhere to my knowledge, as unfortunate as that may be. Back
  17. In the case of the Bringers of Eternal Peace (and similarly fallen or tainted camps) I choose to list it under its related tribe; although one can argue that by the point a Child of Gaia has fallen so far as to be described as a Bringer of Eternal Peace he or she would no longer be accepted by Unicorn, there is no conclusive proof as to this (refer to the case of the Manslayer in Tribebook: Black Furies Revised). Back
  18. To my knowledge, the camps and sub-camps Avenging Mother (Black Furies), Revolutionary Guard (Shadow Lords), Inner Path (Stargazers), and Fang Breakers (Red Talons and Wendigo) are mentioned only in WW3205, the old Werewolf Storytellers Handbook. Back
  19. As there was not a Revised edition of Book of the Wyrm, there's really no mention of camps for the fallen tribe in Revised. Back
  20. The write-up for the Bunyip in the Wild West Companion says that their totem is Bunyip itself; but references to the tribe's totem in the other books describe the totem as being Ngalyod the Rainbow Serpent (including their description in Rage Across Australia), so I take that to be the correct totem. Back
  21. Ronin are defined by their lack of a tribe, and the tribe is defined by the totem. Since the Siberakh are not properly Silver Fangs or Wendigo, and are not large enough or possessed of a single, universal totem they cannot be considered a tribe proper. Considering the former definition of Ronin one could make a case for the Siberakh simply being a subset of Ronin - although a large, cohesive group with generations of history, a shared gene pool, and a shared culture. This is not quite satisfying, however, since by this same definition one could call any cubs prior to their Rite of Passage "Ronin", and the same could be applied to the mythical First Pack (or other first body of Garou) that are generally described as being without tribes. Ronin will be used to describe former members of proper tribes that are no longer part of any proper tribes, or werewolves who consciously rejected all proper tribes without ever going through a rite of passage. Back
  22. The Los Infelizos are a group of cast-offs, the result of Shadow Lords breeding with Uktena Kinfolk. The bastard bloodline of Garou probably got their start in the 1500s or 1600s, as their Shadow Lord fathers were described as being conquistadors. Somewhere in the early 1800s the Shadow Lords abandoned their bastard children entirely, leaving them with an awareness of their impurity and damned state, and little else. The bloodline was doomed to die out with their parent gone, as their twisted, masochistic culture discouraged their breeding and often resulted in castration for those males who chose to mate. The last of the Los Infelizos dies in 1937, but a fragmentary transcription of his deathbed ravings will survive, preserved by the Uktena - the Litany of the Penitentes. This is probably the only source of information as to the deep, if dark, spiritual insight of the Los Infelizos. Back

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