Strongly tied to the Mafia and other forms of organized crime, the Wise Guys utilize money-making endeavors of all sorts to finance and support their war against the Wyrm, and to take down Wyrm-tainted rival businesses. Until they were replaced by the Corporate Wolves in the mid-1970s, the Wise Guys dominated the power positions within the Walker tribe for several decades. Their members demonstrate ruthless ambition, inspiring fanatic devotion from their packmates, Kinfolk, and minions.

Factions and camps are a human perversion, a divi­ sion along philosophical boundaries that is alien to the Talon mindset. Still, through centuries of being forced to deal with human-thinking Garou and their even-weaker kin, even the Red Talon tribe has not been impervious to infiltration of these divisive mentalities. There are three

actual Talon “camps,” with a default fourth consisting of the Talons who fall outside of the others’ extreme views.