Tribes & Fera

The Swarm serves as Rat’s teeth in the war against the Wyrm, specializing in dirty fighting and underhanded strategy. Tribal elders call upon the Swarm when the poli­

tics of compromise prove useless, although they publicly disavow the camp’s activities. Some of the Rat God’s most fervent warriors only associate with the Swarm camp in secret, spending most of their time as upstanding citizens in a Garou caern.

The Children of Gaia are more conflicted than most when it comes to the topic of camps. Some believe that camps can be positive; a way to bring together those who might otherwise not form the bonds of kinship that lead to true unity. Historically, Children of Gaia have been welcomed — even encouraged — to join more than one camp, should they so desire; doing so was seen as a sign of active involvement. Recently, however, there has been a movement within the tribe to abjure camps as a whole. Proponents of this movement believe that by giving Garou even more labels with which to identify themselves, camps encourage splintering and conflict among those who would otherwise see themselves as parts of the same whole.