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They suffer a race-wide case of what is implied to be Stockholm Syndrome for Mother Ocean, mainly because they can't live inland, but they can't live in her because of a species-wide phobia of the deep. and even their own myths emphasize what a miserable, luckless people they are, with their own progenitor being kicked out by Mother Ocean when he failed to take over the world in her name. The Brine Born seem like they'd be the evil guys, being shameless Shout Outs to the Deep Ones.That would be bad, except that their mission doesn't give them a Detect Evil ability, so they have to guess which people are immoral enough to qualify. The Colony (cat people), besides being forced into becoming The Virus every tenth birthday, are literally forced into a Vigilante Man role in the world, having to kill people who don't meet Morality standards lest their own natures drive them insane.Woobie Species: Three out of the five alternate shapeshifters from War Against The Pure have perfectly valid reasons for wanting to be fully human.Ultimately, we removed Unihar because removing them removes a bunch of unintentional messages that people found very off-putting. I want to stress that nobody on the original design team intended any of this, but as we’re older and wiser we decided to drop a highly problematic element of the game. "They have some really unfortunate implications that we want to move away from — penalising sex with the “wrong” people, casting Wolf-Blooded as breeding stock, punishing female characters far more than male, and a whole mess of problems around their impact on people who have lost pregnancies. Finally, Gauru resembles the now-iconic "manwolf" that has become heavily associated with werewolves in modern culture and which can be arguably traced back to film via The Howling.Urshul arguably has some mythological basis, but can most easily be connected to the werewolf as depicted in An American Werewolf in London.Dalu is based on the iconic "wolfman" form of film, first seen in Universal's The Wolf Man (1941).Urhan clearly owes its lineage to most forms of actual mythological depictions of the werewolf.The four non-human forms of Multiform Balance are references to the most iconic werewolf forms in modern culture.It didn't take long for this group to be called The Lodge of Batman or occasionally The Lodge of the Goddamn Batman. Fan Nickname: The Iron Masters have a sub-faction called the Lodge of Spires, which is dedicated to being the perfect urban predator, or to put it simply, mastering the geography of the city like your standard werewolf would master the forest.It has also been accused of pandering to the Furry Fandom. More than one negative reviewer has compared it to the worst elements of Werewolf: The Apocalypse. nature motif, outright encouraging players to be kill-happy sociopaths dedicated to the destruction of humanity and/or human civilisation. Furthermore, the book's fluff presents a very hamhanded take on a man vs.

Fanon Discontinuity: Changing Breeds is hated for numerous reasons - the writing quality is poor, with rules that are easily exploitable or overpowered, and generally of lower quality compared to earlier splatbooks with similar rules, such as War Against the Pure.Come 2E, Unihar were made Canon Discontinuity, and the rule stating Werewolves had to breed with humans only was retooled to instead be about the importance of socializing with humans to maintain the balance between your spirit and flesh sides. 1E had Werewolves being forbidden to mate with each other and having to rely on humans to breed, with the offspring of two Uratha resulting in a Foetus Terrible known as Unihar, which would kill its mother by bursting out of the womb and would take off to the Spirit World before returning to wreak havoc on its parents- a concept that was seen as uncomfortable and sexist by many, the writers included.