Laws of the Wild: Changing Breeds 2

Laws of the Wild: Changing Breeds 2 is a sourcebook for Mind's Eye Theatre that implements rules for the Gurahl werebears and the Mokole weresaurians.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf Catalog:

Does Gaia's Memory Still Remember?

During the terrible War of Rage, the Garou brought slaughter to their shapeshifting cousins. The mighty werereptiles called the Mokolé and the gentle werebears called the Gurahl hid themselves away to avoid destruction by their enraged brethren and were forgotten. Now, centuries later, they venture out from their hidden swamps and caves to a world that needs their healing and memories more than ever. But has time mended the wounds of the past, or have they only festered?

Can Gaia's Healers Mend the Wounds?

This book contains all-new material for creating and playing one of the Changing Breeds, either the werereptile Mokolé or the werebear Gurahl. Patterned after the first Changing Breeds Book, each section contains everything that even a new player could want to become acquainted with the society and setting, create a character and begin playing.

Contents[]

Chapter One: Gurahl[]

Lexicon
Backgrounds
- Umbral Glade
Influences
- Church
- Health
- Legal
- Occult
- Police
- Politics
- Transportation
- University
The Faces of the Bear: Gurahl and Their Totem
Gifts
- Breed Gifts
  - Homid
    - Basic
      - Climate Control
      - Dolorous Countenance
      - Persuasion
      - Ursa's Light
    - Intermediate
      - Sense Need
      - Shape Matter
      - Spirit Shield
      - Ursa's Coat
    - Advanced
      - Charismatic Presence
      - Fearless Unveiling
  - Ursine
    - Basic
      - Burrow
      - Heightened Senses
      - Voice of Woe
      - Weather Watch
    - Intermediate
      - Gnaw
      - Pull of the Chosen Land
      - Shelter of the Earth
      - Sweet Swarm of Vengeance
    - Advanced
      - Bear's Bounty
      - Call the Cave Bear
- Auspice Gifts
  - Arcas
    - Basic
      - Cajole
      - Open Seal
      - Sense of the Prey
      - Walk Like a Man
    - Intermediate
      - Favor of Ursa Minor
      - Rejuvenate
      - Safe Passage
      - Trackless Waste
    - Advanced
      - Humiliate
      - Natural State
  - Uzmati
    - Basic
      - Mangi's Strong Arms
      - Slash of the Death Bear
      - Threaten
      - Ultimatum
    - Intermediate
      - Crush
      - Delay the Death Bear's Coming
      - Silver Claws
      - Strength of the Earth
    - Advanced
      - Engulf the Prey
      - Rage of the Mother Bear
  - Kojubat
    - Basic
      - Beast Speech
      - Eyes of the Soul
      - Song of Terra
      - Stonesight
    - Intermediate
      - Mind to Mind
      - Mind Sight
      - Probe Thoughts
      - Shadows by the Fire Light
    - Advanced
      - Aversion Therapy
      - Prophetic Vision
  - Kieh
    - Basic
      - Diagnose
      - Refresh
      - Sense the Unnatural
      - Spirit Speech
    - Intermediate
      - Exorcism
      - Name the Spirit
      - Spirit Healing
      - Spirit Shape
    - Advanced
      - Image of the Sky Bear
      - Restore Sanity
  - Rishi
    - Basic
      - Befriend
      - Compel Truth
      - Presence of the Great Bear
      - Truth of Gaia
    - Intermediate
      - Bestow Ursa's Blessing
      - Quell Mob Rage
      - Waken
      - Ways of the Tapestry
    - Advanced
      - Oath of the Great Bear
      - Words of Doom
- Gurahl Gifts
  - Basic
    - Calm
    - Fiddlefish
    - Grisly Aspect
    - Healing Tongue
    - Ignore Wounds
    - Nature's Plenty
    - Sense Pattern Breaker
    - Sentinel's Warning
    - Treeshake
    - Ursa's Cleansing
  - Intermediate
    - Dreams of the Buri-Jaan
    - Ease the Fevered Mind
    - Masking the Hunted
    - Survival of the Bear
  - Advanced
    - Gaia's Breath
    - Great Grandfather's Summons
Rites
- Basic
  - Rites of Greeting and Leave-taking (Accord)
  - Rite of the Changing Moon (Mystical)
  - Rite of the Healing Winds (Accord)
  - Rite of the River-Portent (Mystical)
  - Rite of True Mating (Mystical)
  - Rite of Replenishment (Mystical)
- Intermediate
  - Rite of Finding the Ancient Cache (Mystical)
  - Rite of the Pure Land (Accord)
  - Rite of the Ban (Accord)
  - Rite of the Freed Spirit (Mystical)
- Advanced
  - Rite of the Long Sleep (Mystical)
  - Rite of Fighting the Death Bear (Mystical)
Merits and Flaws
- Early Maturation (3 Trait Supernatural Merit)
- Garou Companion (3 Trait Supernatural Merit)
- Umbral Affinity (3 Trait Supernatural Merit)
- Rip Van Winkle (3-6 Trait Supernatural Merit)
- Dancing Fool (1 Trait Psychological Flaw)
- Attracted to Humans (2 Trait Psychological Flaw)
- Clawless (3 Trait Physical Flaw)
- Abandoned Cub (4 Trait Social Flaw)
Fetishes and Talens
- Talen
  - Ursa's Healing Balm - Fetish Trait Cost: 1 for two application, Gnosis 3
- Fetishes
  - Claws of the Cave Bear - Fetish Trait Cost: 3, Gnosis 4
  - Mother Tongues - Fetish Trait Cost: 4, Gnosis 5
  - Soul Brush - Fetish Trait Cost: 4, Gnosis 5
  - Net of Stars - Fetish Trait Cost: 4, Gnosis 5

Chapter Two: Mokolé[]

Lexicon
New Backgrounds
- Mnesis
- Wallow
Archid Traits
Merits and Flaws
- Bird-spirit Companion (1 Trait Merit)
- Manshape (1 Trait Merit)
- Mnesis of the Lost Ones (1 Trait Merit)
- Terrible Footsteps (1 Trait Merit)
- Yathamaya (1 Trait Merit)
- Bite of the Monitor (1-5 Trait Merit)
- Retain Eggs (2 Trait Merit)
- Retain Seed (2 Trait Merit)
- Temperature Control (2 Trait Merit)
- Farm Ties (3 Trait Merit)
- Sacred Crocodile (3 Trait Merit)
- Supernatural Companion (4 Trait Merit)
- Gold Tolerance (5 Trait Merit)
- Eiditic Memory (5 Trait Merit)
- Color Change (7 Trait Merit)
- Silver Tolerance (7 Trait Merit)
- Step Sideways (7 Trait Merit)
- Veiled to Garou (7 Trait Merit)
- Diurnal (1 Trait Flaw)
- Migratory Urges (1 Trait Flaw)
- Molt (1 Trait Flaw)
- Monogamous (1 Trait Flaw)
- Scavenger (1 Trait Flaw)
- Speechless (1 Trait Flaw)
- Slime (1 Trait Flaw)
- Cold-Blooded (2 Trait Flaw)
- Dream Hunter (2 Trait Flaw)
- Exclusive Herbivore (2 Trait Flaw)
- Stench (2 Trait Flaw)
- Sterile/Barren (2 Trait Flaw)
- Wall Eye (2 Trait Flaw)
- Eyes of the Tyrant (3 Trait Flaw)
- Albino (4 Trait Flaw)
- Limbless (4 Trait Flaw)
- Great Fossil Lizard (5 Trait Flaw)
  - Merits of the Gumagan
    - Song Owner (1 Trait Merit)
  - Merits of the Makara
    - High Caste (1 Trait Merit)
    - Ghar (3 Trait Merit)
  - Merits and Flaws of the Zhong Lung
    - Same-Bito Kin (1 Trait Merit)
    - Fear of Iron (1 Trait Flaw)
    - Fertile Essence (1 or 4 Trait Flaw)
Gifts
- General Gifts
  - Basic
    - Axis Mundi
    - Falling Touch
    - Fatal Flaw
    - Find Land
    - Find Water
    - Inspiration
    - Razor Claws
    - Scent of Sweet Nectar
    - Scent of the True Form
    - Sense Dissolver
    - Sense Gold
    - Sense Moon
    - Sense Prey
    - Shed
    - Silver Claws
    - Speed of Thought
    - Stinking Breath
    - Tailbiter's Mumble
    - Talk
    - Tides of Lust
    - Waxwork Monster
  - Intermediate
    - Attunement
    - Bark of the Mudpuppy
    - Cocoon
    - Dragon's Breath
    - Dragonfear
    - View the Seed
    - Walking Between Worlds
  - Advanced
    - Grasp the Beyond
    - Song of the Great Beast
- Stream Gifts
  - Gumagan
    - Basic
      - Songlines
      - Dreamwalk
    - Intermediate
      - Bunyip's Boom
      - Landspeak
      - Nightmare Mnesis
    - Advanced
      - Billabong Walk
      - Bloody-Mindedness
  - Makara
    - Intermediate
      - The Thousand Arrows
    - Advanced
      - Great as a White Hill
  - Mokolé-mbembe
    - Intermediate
      - Beak of the Finch
      - Heat Wave
      - Walk into My Eyes
  - Zhong Lung
    - Basic
      - Chi'ih Ming
      - Shou
    - Intermediate
      - Serenity
- Rising Sun (Tung Chun/Vasanta)
  - Basic
    - Bellow
    - Eye of the Raptor
    - Paint the Meadows
    - Sense Silver
  - Intermediate
    - Anger of the Wani
    - Call the Tides
    - Combat Healing
    - Dragon's Tongue
    - Hot Ichor
    - Might of the Kings
    - Scream of Gaia
  - Advanced
    - Jointsnake's Mojo
    - Wall of Granite
- Noonday Sun (Nam Hsia/Grisma)
  - Basic
    - Calm
    - Gold Claws
    - Sight of the True Form
    - Strength of Purpose
    - Tame Sunbeam
    - Truth of Olodumare
  - Intermediate
    - Clear Mind
    - Dragon's Tongue
    - Eyes of the Cobra
    - Raptor's Gaze
    - Serenity
    - Strength of the Dominator
  - Advanced
    - Geas
    - Slee of the Dragon
    - Wisdom of the Seer
- Setting Sun (Tung Chun/Vasanta)
  - Basic
    - Mother's Touch
    - Resist Pain
    - Clap of Thunder
    - Paint the Meadows
    - Spew
  - Intermediate
    - Armor of the Tortoise
    - Clenched Haw
    - Combat Healing
    - Hot Ichor
    - Might of the Kings
  - Advanced
    - Halo of the Sun
    - Fossilize
- Midnight Sun (Pei Tung/Hemanta)
  - Basic
    - Breaking the Tomorrow Wall
    - Darksight
    - Dreamspeak
    - Glib Tongue
    - Lambent Flame
    - Sense Sun
    - Spirits of Laughter
    - Talk
  - Intermediate
    - Become Log
    - Fool's Luck
    - Invisibility
    - Open Sun Bridge
    - Shadows by the Firelight
  - Advanced
    - Sleep of the Dragon
    - Steal Shape
    - Take the True Form
    - Thousand Secret Faces
- Shrouded Sun (Sai Cau/Zarad)
  - Basic
    - Become Log
    - Breaking the Tomorrow Wall
    - Call the Rain
    - Command Spirit
    - Dream the Matre's Mind
    - Mother's Touch
    - Send the Dream
    - Sense Designer
    - Sense Dissolver
    - Sense Magic
    - Spirit Speech
    - Talk
    - Walking Between Worlds
  - Intermediate
    - Call Water Spirit
    - Deeper Lungs
    - Exorcism
    - Grasp the Beyond
    - Open Sun Bridge
    - Recapitulate
    - Shadow Wings
    - Walk the Matre's Mind
  - Advanced
    - Gorgon's Gaze
    - Malleable Spirit
- Decorated Sun (Nam Hsia/Grisma)
  - Basic
    - Call to Duty
    - Cooking
    - Dragon Drill
    - Mother's Touch
    - Persuasion
    - Pilot Snake
    - Talk
    - Walking Between Worlds
    - Wind Beneath My Wings
  - Intermediate
    - Infest
    - Long Running
    - Reshape Object
  - Advanced
    - Calm the Flock
    - Strength of the Dominator
    - Obedience
- Eclipsed Sun
  - Basic
    - Aura of Confidence
    - Awe
    - Bellow
    - Dazzle Lambent Flame
    - Razor Claws
    - Walking Between Worlds
  - Intermediate
    - Eye of the Cobra
    - Hot Ichor
    - Mastery
    - Sun Enfleshed
    - Wrath of the Dragon
  - Advanced
    - Army of the Ancestors
    - Dream Semblance
    - Stop Continental Drift
Rites
- Rites of Accord
  - Basic
    - Rite of Breeding
    - Shedding Hide
    - Silence of the Oracles
- Rites of Death
  - Basic
    - Last Communion
  - Intermediate
    - Shed the Crocodile's Tears
  - Advanced
    - The Bones of Time
- Mystic Rites
  - Intermediate
    - Rite of the Stone
  - Advanced
    - Boat of the Sun
    - Burn the Library
    - Walking in Your Footsteps
    - Rite of Anamnesis
    - Rite of the Eidolon
    - Rite of Lost Dreams
    - Rite of the Sleeping Dragon
- Seasonal Rites
  - Intermediate
    - Rite of Sunreturn
- Wallow (Caern) Rites
  - Basic
    - Feed the Wallow
    - Rite of the Illuminated Wallow
    - Rite of the Nesting Mound
    - Save Hatchling
  - Intermediate
    - The Gator's Burrow
    - Open Sun Bridge
  - Advanced
    - Citadel of the Dragon
- Rites of the Gumagan
  - Basic
    - Djunggawon
    - The Oknanikilla
    - Songs of the Dreamtime
    - Into the Waterhole
  - Intermediate
    - Tjurunga
- Rites of the Zhong Lung
  - Advanced
    - Shedding Bones
Mokolé and the Umbra
- The Innocents - Stats
  - Charms: Dark Whispers, Umbral Passage, Mnesis Travel, Materialize, Take Homid Form, Take Suchid Form, Give Power, Take Power, Steal Mnesis, Corrupt Mnesis and Arcanoi
- Dream Hunters - Stats
  - Charm: Dream Warp
- Smrtihara - Stats
  - Charm: Eat Mnesis
- Pratigata - Stats
Totems
- Dragon
- Finch
- Horseshoe Crab
- Scarab
- Snake Doctor
- Orunmila
- Whiptail Lizard
Fetishes
- Dragon Crystal - Fetish Trait Cost: 1, Gnosis: 6
- Hatching's Tail - Fetish Trait Cost: 1, Gnosis: 3
- Tray of the Teachers - Fetish Trait Cost: 1, Gnosis: 5
- Egg Basket - Fetish Trait Cost: 2, Gnosis: 3
- Spirit Jar - Fetish Trait Cost: 2 Gnosis: 5
- Mirror of Amaterasu Omikami - Fetish Trait Cost: 3, Gnosis: 4
- Bowl of Mnesis - Fetish Trait Cost: 4, Gnosis: 5
- Edge of the Sun - Fetish Trait Cost: 4, Gnosis: 6
- Spirit Tether - Fetish Trait Cost: 4, Gnosis: 6
- Blade of Kings - Fetish Trait Cost: 5, Gnosis: 6
- Blowpipe of Anamnesis - Fetish Trait Cost: 5, Gnosis: 7
  - Fetishes of the Gumagan
    - Lungin - Fetish Trait Cost: 1, Gnosis: 5
    - Pearlshell of Healing - Fetish Trait Cost: 1, Gnosis: 4
    - Kurdaitcha - Fetish Trait Cost: 2, Gnosis: 5
    - Rangga - Fetish Trait Cost: 2, Gnosis: 5
    - Tokoyanga - Fetish Trait Cost: 3, Gnosis: 6
    - Warshell - Fetish Trait Cost: 3, Gnosis: 6
    - Bret - Fetish Trait Cost: 4, Gnosis: 7
  - Fetishes of the Makara
    - Beggar's Mantle - Fetish Trait Cost: 3, Gnosis: 7
    - Mace of the Winds - Fetish Trait Cost: 4, Gnosis: 8
  - Fetishes of the Mokolé-mbembe
    - Mask of Mnante - Fetish Trait Cost: 1, Gnosis: 7
  - Fetishes of the Zhong Lung
    - Box of Rice - Fetish Trait Cost: 1, Gnosis: 3
    - Dragon Skin - Fetish Trait Cost: 2, Gnosis: 4
    - Pearls of Flood and Ebb Tide - Fetish Trait Cost: 5, Gnosis: 9
Talens
- Arrows of the Sun - Gnosis: 5
- Cacao Moon's Chocolate - Gnosis: 6
- Matre Medicine - Gnosis: 3
- Quipu of the Amautas - Gnosis: 5
- Snake Herbs - Gnosis: 4
  - Talens of the Gumagan
    - Bloodstone - Gnosis: 7
    - Message Stick - Gnosis: 4
    - Pituri - Gnosis: 3
  - Talens of the Makara
    - Thunder Dart - Gnosis: 6
  - Talens of the Zhong Lung
    - Dragon's Spittle - Gnosis: 4
The Dinosaur Kings
- Herrerasaurus - Stats
- Ceratosaurus - Stats
- Tyrannosaurus Rex - Stats
- Baryonyx - Stats
- Oviraptor - Stats
- Troodon - Stats
- Deinonychus - Stats
- Velociraptor - Stats
- Archaeopteryx - Stats
- Stegosaurus - Stats
- Pachycephalosaurus - Stats
- Triceratops - Stats
- Pteranodon - Stats
- Sarcosuchus - Stats

Background Information[]

Playtesters are credited at the Credits Section as: April Asbury, Tammie Davis and Charlie Rose.

Memorable Quotes[]

Did you hear the one about two werebears? They crossed paths on a barren mountain top, said "Good Morning" and called it a wild revel. - Nuwisha witticism

Characters[]

Adirondack Annie - Gurahl
Jeremy Nimble-Talon - Gurahl
Uncle Ironjaw Snarltooth - Gurahl
Annika Warding the Clutch of Yemassee Reach - Mokolé
Redwing - Mokolé Clutchmate of Annika's
Mokolé-Mbembe - Crowned son of Two-Thumbs, Mokolé
Two-Thumbs - Mokolé

Terminology[]

Gurahl: Arcas, Arthren, Auspice, Bhernocht, Bjornen, Buri-Jaan, The Code of Ursa, Council of Autumn, Crinos, Dance of Centuries, Fests, First Great Council, Gallivant, Geth-Rura, Grandparents' Summoning, Great Grandfather/Grandmother, Hibernation, Kieh, Kojubat, Kovi, Mangi, Matae, Okuma, Pattern Breaker, Powwows, Rar-Azgai, Regalia, Rishi, Sorna, Storm-Eater, Summer Lands, Talchwi, Tapestry Maker, Umbral Glade, Umfalla, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Ursine, Ursus, Uzmati, Verden, War of Shame, Yarn Spinner; Gurahl Tribes: River Keepers, Mountain Guardians, Forest Walkers, Ice Stalkers, Renown: Honor, Wisdom, Succor; Hengeyokai, Homid (Breed), Homid (Form), Kinfolk, Mokolé: Age of Sleep, Ambalasokei, Ancestors, Apis, Archid, Bandaiyan, Bata'a, Bête, Big, Blood-devil, Buaya, Bunyip, Callsinger, Camazotz, Clutch, Deep Umbra, Depressions, Designer, Devisor, Dinosaur Kings, Dissolver, Drachid, Dragon Kings, Dragon's Tongue, Dreamtime, Dream Hunter, Egg-smasher, Entoban, Eshu, Farm Boy, Gendasi, Grondr, Hem-Ka Sobk, Innocents, Inwitting, Jati (Shudra, Dalit, Vaishya, Kshatriya, Brahmin), Khara, Last Times, Lineage, Ma'afa, Mancala, Mandates of Earth, Matre, Middle Umbra, Mnesis, Mokolé-Mbembe, Monster of the Deep Shadows, Mother Cow, Olodumare, Pangaea, Perenty, Perfect Clutch, Proudest Monkey, Rats, River Pact, Ruler-Of-The-Tides, Salty, Sharptooth, Songlines, Stream, Suchid, Sun, Sun bridge, Tenrec, Today, Two-legs, Wallow, Wanderer, Wani, Was, 'Within, the (also "Great Within")', WonderWork of the Wyrm, Zhong Guo ("chug kuo"); Mokolé Camps: The Army of Aten, The Nomads of Time; Mokolé Tribes: Gumagan, Makara (Hemanta, Zarad, Grisma, Vasanta), Mokolé-mbembe, Zhong Lung (Tung Chun, Nam Hsia, Sai Chau, Pei Tung); Mokolé Varna: Halpatee/Piasa, Ora, Unktehi, Karna/Champsa, Gharial/Syrta, Makara; Mokolé Aspects of the Sun: Striking, Unshading, Warding, Concealing, Shining, Gathering, Crowning; Renown: Glory, Honor, Wisdom; Renown Ranks: Hatchling, Son/Daughter, Brother/Sister, Father/Mother, Grandfather/Grandmother, Legend; War of Rage,

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