Fera

**Fera**, also known as the Changing Breeds, are a race of shapeshifters created by Gaia to combat the forces of the Wyrm. The fera have many different subcategories depending on the type of creature that they can shapeshift into.

## Breeds

* **Ajaba (werehyenas)**: The werehyenas are Gaia's warriors in Africa, a continent without a wolf population. While the War of Rage did not reach Africa, the Ajaba were all but destroyed by infighting, their rivalry with the Bastet and, most significantly, the tyrannical Simba king, Black Tooth. The survivors were exiled from their traditional homelands, but in recent years the Ajaba woman Kisasi rallied the Fera of Africa and formed an alliance known as the Ahadi; together, they defeated Black Tooth and revitalized Ajaba society.
* **Ananasi (werespiders)**: The werespiders are not children of Gaia, but rather children of Queen Ananasa, a powerful spirit child of the Weaver. They are considered alien and disturbing by other Fera, and not without reason: their animal form is a horde of creeping spiders, they possess no Rage, and they fuel their powers with blood stolen from humans.
* **Bastet (werecats)**: The werecats have many different tribes, like the Garou, though each claims a different species of wild cat. They are obsessed with secret knowledge and are always pursuing and hoarding it. Many are great magicians, others are great warriors, but they are rarely pack animals and generally work alone. Some of their tribes suffered greatly during the War of Rage.
* **Corax (wereravens)**: The wereravens are Gaia's messengers, spies and scouts who patrol the skies, always on the lookout for danger. They are terrible chatterboxes and will tell what they have seen to any who care to listen. They escaped persecution in the War of Rage by aiding the Garou, and maintain the most cordial relations with the werewolves of all Fera.
* **Garou (werewolves)**
* **Gurahl (werebears)**: The werebears are Gaia's healers, tied to the Earth with a stronger bond than any other Fera. Many Garou believe the Gurahl are extinct, killed during the War of Rage when they would not give up the secret of restoring life to the dead. In truth, they entered a long sleep using a trick taught to them by the Mokolé, and have awoken in the modern world.
* **Hakken (werewolves)**: Though related to the Garou as a branch of the Shadow Lords, these werewolves native to Japan underwent isolation from the rest of the world during the Edo period along with the rest of Japanese society. During this time, they almost entirely lost their ranks of the lupus breed (as wolves in the islands of Japan were almost entirely killed off during this period), and today are almost entirely composed of homids. This imbalance has wrought considerable change on their culture, making them markedly distinct from other Garou in their practices.
* **Kitsune (werefoxes)**: The werefoxes are magicians and politicians, holding together the society of Asian shapeshifters. Unique among the Fera, the Kitsune are found only in the Beast Courts of the Middle Kingdom, living mostly in China and Japan. With Luna's blessing, the Kitsune also acted as assassins of the corrupt authorities in mortal society, as court wizards and thieves in order to protect the Heavenly Mandate.
* **Mokolé (werecrocodiles)**: The werecrocodiles remember the age of the Dragon Kings, when terrible reptiles ruled the earth. They remember everything that has ever happened and keep that knowledge to themselves, only speaking to the properly respectful. Their Crinos forms more closely resemble dinosaurs or dragons than crocodiles, sometimes leading to them being called weredragons.
* **Nagah (weresnakes)**: Weresnakes that originated in India. Most (if not all) of the other changing breeds believe them to be dead, but they are very much still around. Serving as the "Judges of Gaia," the Nagah fill the role of both silent judges and hidden executioners for the Changing Breeds. Many of the Fera races believe the Nagah are extinct. Only Fera present in the Beast Courts are likely to know otherwise.
* **Nuwisha (werecoyotes)**: The werecoyotes are Gaia's teachers, though like their totem, Old Man Coyote, they prefer to teach exclusively through pranks. Thanks to a prank they pulled on Luna, they no longer have any Rage, though they have a closer affinity with the Umbra than any other Fera. Fallen Nuwisha are known as Nokhomi and see the struggle of the Apocalypse as a cruel prank played by the Wyrm.
* **Ratkin (wererats)**: The wererats once watched over humanity, keeping their numbers from ever becoming too great. However, the Garou usurped that role, and the Ratkin have hated them ever since. They fight firmly for the Wyld and take every opportunity to undermine technology.
* **Rokea (weresharks)**: Even the sea has its protectors. The weresharks patrol the depths of the sea and are rarely seen by land dwellers. Members of this species within the Beast Courts are referred to as Same-Bito.

## Extinct Breeds

These breeds no longer exist in the modern day.

* **Apis (wereaurochs)**: Wereaurochs or "Moon-bulls", the Apis were in charge of cultivation and agriculture, and known as the "Matchmakers of Gaia." They were driven to extinction by the Garou in the War of Rage.
* **Camazotz (werebats)**: The Camazotz were werebats, Gaia's nocturnal and southern hemisphere messengers, counterparts to the Corax. They were almost wiped out during the War of Rage, but none survive today: the few who lived on in South America were destroyed by the Shadow Lords who arrived with the Spanish in the 1600s, and their fall saw their creation rites stop working, rendering the Camazotz of Australia the last of their kind.
* **Grondr (wereboars)**: The wereboars were located in Northern Europe. Their task was to cleanse land; they were called Gaia's groomers. They were driven to extinction by the Garou during the War of Rage.