Corax
(wereravens)
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Insaitably curious and startlingly omnipresent, the Corax are Gaia's spies and informants. The were ravens are driven by an unstoppable urge to know, to unearth secrets and share them. So, from the mean streets of the city to the furthest reaches of the Umbra, you can find the Corax poking around  at anythign that catches their fancy..and an awful lot does.
  Corax don't like fighting..their not terribly good at it for one thing...and they recognize their role is that of the scouts, not infantry. A Corax is just as happy to get the scoop, get out and then send the local ass-kicking werewolf population after the real baddies.
  Corax are also incurable gossips and take every opportunity to share what they know with others of their kind. This behavior is as much a survial tactic as it is a social necessity; passing on information multiple times ensures that the message always gets the message always gets through, even if one messenger waylaid. Morever information transfer is the prime motive of all Corax. The vast majority of Corax believe that Gaia created them to have someone who would keep an eye on  the world and it's dirty little secrets, and the Corx do their best to fill that role. Of course when those secrets involve murder, Wyrm taint or the like, the corax also feel it as their duty sic someone qualified, say a pack of red talons, on the problem.
  There are corax the world over, from Scandinavia to the pacific northwest, and from the british isles to Hokkaido. Raven legends are nearly universal, and where the legendry goes, there go the Corax.
There are few places where Corax settle per se, too many have wanderign feet, but the greatest concentration of Corax kin are in the Pacific Northwest and Scottland.  Mind you, Kinfolk doesn't mean the same thing to Corax to it does to say, Garou. Corax don't have to breed fromt heir kinfolk. Rather they keep their kin close so they'll have someone to talk to who understand what wereravens are actually about.
  Corax are creatures of the Raven and the Sun, and not necessarily in that order. Back in the legendary past, the raven folk did Helios a great favor (or at least he thinks so). As such, Luna handed the Corax over to the sun with a minimum of fuss in order to keep him happy. What that means is complicated, Corax are never forced to change by any phase of the moon, and they don't have the normal changing breed, allergy to silver. Rather , it is gold that is deadly to the Corax, within the usual form and breed limitations.
  One of the other unusual habits ascribed to the Corax, is their penchant for drinking out the eyes of dead humans and beasts. Blessed (or cursed) with the innate ability to "imbibe", from a dead eye the last thing it's owner saw, corax see it as a sacred duty to save these last visions. The fact that these visions often hold the keys to mysteries is a bonus, for corax perform this action with a grim seriousness at odds with their usual lighthearted jokey, demeanor.
  While some see the corax strictly as tricksters that is only a part ot the wereraven's repertoire. Yes, there are many Corax trickster legends, but there are also ones of battle ravens and of Raven the creator.  The Corax exist Juggling all of these aspects, while trying to find their own paths, and others don't always see the complexity of the demands places on wereravens.

Quote - "I don't care if my evidence won't hold up in a court of law. I got it from a dead man's eye, and that is good enough for me...so keep watchign the skies, pal. I'll be up there watching and waiting for you to screw up again. and when you do..."

-Garou: Tehy run the gamut, from respectfull and noble to homicidal and arrogant...and that's just any given individual. Take what knowledge from them you can, give them what they need to fight the Wyrm and -always- rememeber the War of the Rage.

-Bastet: The cats gaurd their secrets well, even from themselves. They're also more noble than you'd expect but less so than they themselves think. Just don't remind them of that fact.

-Gurahl: The bears are sleeping not dead, only an idiot would buy that lie. Hopefully the rest of the breed will awaken soon. They know things that even we don't and we need that info.

-Mokole: "Gaia's memory" keep to themselves these days. The Garou didn't respect the past and therefore repeated it. The irony of it is unless the Mokole teach us what they know, the past will be repeated again.

-Nuwisha: They are their own best joke, and there is nothign wrong with that. If there is anyone out there that actually understands us at all, it's the coyotes. They just don't understand us completely.

-Ratkin: The secrets we can't pluck from the Bone Gnawers we get from the Ratkin, but that's no big deal. What is the big deal is that the rats think that because they are underground, were not watching. They are of course wrong.