Bestiary

Buzzards are in most ways identical to Homid Corax. They share the same addiction to shiny things, the same compulsion to gossip and share what they learn. A few of the most insane Buzzards share all of their knowledge with everyone they encounter, to the point of becoming another insane person standing on a street corner ranting about the End of Days.

They also share the same physical traits, including hollow bones and a vulnerability to gold. Buzzards differ from Corax in only two major ways. They cannot gain Raven’s patronage as a Totem, and they each suffer a physical deformity, their bodies reflecting their twisted origins.

Most have the same deformities found in metis Garou, like incomplete transformations or a total lack of feathers. Other Buzzards have afflictions that more obviously come from the Wyrm, such as rotting flesh, large numbers of warts, ex-traneous fleshy growths, or a tendency to vomit up large numbers of live worms. Almost all have somewhat ragged feathers, leaving some behind after every transformation. In human form, even Buzzards who are not obviously deformed have a somewhat skeletal appearance and look arthritic, sickly, and generally unattractive. Buzzards can never possess an Appearance higher than two.

Despite suffering such horrors, they’re not fomori and they haven’t traveled the Black Spiral Labyrinth. Instead, they are simply deformed, insane, and generally malevolent Corax. They still possess Rage, Gnosis, Renown, and all other standard Corax traits. They can learn the tribal Gifts of the Black Spiral Dancers, but lack any innate powers associated with the Wyrm.

or other willing agents of the Wyrm raise it to be a mad and dangerous soldier of corruption.

Regardless of where they grow up, a Buzzard’s corrupt guardians train the young Scab as a spy and assassin. He studies the arts of subterfuge and sabotage and learns to be a sneaky and careful observer. His mentors also teach them everything they know about Corax life and customs.

A few of the less obviously deformed or insane Buzzards can successfully pass for Corax for a short time. Their erratic behavior prevents them from accomplish-

ing any sort of extended deception. Eventually even the most careful Buzzard strikes other Corax as being wrong in some fundamental way. Instead, the bulk of a Scab’s training about the Corax enables him to spy successfully unseen upon wereravens, to understand what he learns, and to kill any lone Corax that he encounters.