Corax is a sourcebook for Werewolf: The Apocalypse, part of the series on the Changing Breeds.
Summary[]
- Can you name me?
- I am the wanderer who never walks.
- I am Murder's Daughter, yet I am Thought and Memory in the eye of a god.
- Can you name me?
- I am one of the three, and yet three are one in me. I uncover that which has been buried, yet no man's hand moves me.
- Can you name me?
- To pay my weregild is to kill me, but adorn me with silver and I laugh. I know the four winds and the four points of the compass, and all tell me their secrets.
- Can you name me?
- I have stolen the sun, and he thanked me for it. I have been bartered by the moon, and she abandoned me for the service I did her.
- Can you name me?
- Gaia made me to tell her stories, and yet when the dead speak I listen. They say I make murders, but they lie; I am the father of an unkindness instead.
- Can you name me?
- I feed with the eagle and the wolf, but I walk among men.
- Can you name me?
- For I can name you.
- - A riddle of the Corax, author unknown
- Corax includes:
- A raven's eye view of the world, as well as information on Corax culture and history as they tell it
- Complete rules for running wereravens, including Gifts, rites, fetishes, forms and more
- Sample Corax characters, old legends of the Sun-touched, a comic book tale of one of Gaia's spies, and more
Contents[]
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Introduction: The View from Above[]
Chapter One: An Oral History[]
The tale of the past as the Corax see it.
Chapter Two: Going Through Customs[]
Corax internal affairs
Chapter Three: A Bird's Eye View[]
The wereravens around the world
Chapter Four: Traits and Secrets[]
How to create a Corax character
- New Talent:
- Flight
- New Skill:
- Gossip
- New Knowledge:
- Cryptography
- Navigation
- Forbidden Backgrounds:
- Mentor, Pure Breed, Totem (Pack) are all unavailable to the Corax
- New Backgrounds:
- Other People's Secrets
- Umbral Maps
- Special Combat Maneuver:
- Eye Pluck
- Merits and Flaws:
- Quick Learner (2 point Merit)
- Birdseye (4 point Merit)
- Diet of Worms (1 point Flaw)
- Emu (7 point Flaw)
- Vertigo (5 point Flaw)
- Double Draught (2 point Merit)
- Losing the Sun (4 point Flaw)
- Birdlike Mannerisms (1 point Flaw)
- Guardianship (2 point Merit)
- Strong Claws (4 point Merit)
- Gifts:
- Voice of the Mimic (Level One)
- Enemy Ways (Level One)
- Morse (Level One)
- Open Seal (Level One)
- Raven's Gleaning (Level One)
- Scent of the True Form (Level One)
- Truth of Gaia (Level One)
- Word Beyond (Level One)
- Carrion's Call (Level Two)
- Omens and Signs (Level Two)
- Razor Feathers (Level Two)
- Sky Beneficence (Level Two)
- Sky's Shadow (Level Two)
- Swallow's Return (Level Two)
- Taking the Forgotten (Level Two)
- Tongues (Level Two)
- Dark Truths (Level Three)
- Dead Talk (Level Three)
- Eyes of the Eagle (Level Three)
- Flight of the Swift (Level Three)
- Hummingbird Dart (Level Three)
- Larder of the Shrike (Level Three)
- Mynah's Touch (Level Three)
- Sun's Guard (Level Three)
- Airt Sense (Level Four)
- Gauntlet Runner (Level Four)
- Helios' Child (Level Four)
- Vulture's Feast (Level Four)
- Gift of Eyes (Level Five)
- Moments of Eclipse (Level Five)
- Portents (Level Five)
- Theft of Stars (Level Five)
- Thieving Talons of the Magpie (Level Five)
- Special Combat Maneuver:
- Wing Swipe
- Rites:
- Rite of Talisman Dedication - Level One
- Rite of the Sun's Bright Ray - Level Two
- Rite of the Fetish Egg - Level Two
- Rite of Becoming - Level Two
- Rite of Battle Blessing - Level Four
- Rite of Memory Theft - Level Four
- Toys:
- Silver of Helios - Level 1, Gnosis 3
- Silver Claws - Level 1, Gnosis 5
- Corvid's Favor - Level 1, Gnosis 2
- Raven's Face - Level 3, Gnosis 3
- Counterfeit - Level 2, Gnosis 3
- Helios' Mirror - Level 5, Gnosis 4
Appendix: The Sky-Tossed[]
Notable Corax, past and present
Templates:[]
- Bicycle Courier - Homid Corax
- Tabloid Reporter - Homid Corax
- Corvidocentric - Corvid Corax
Background Information[]
Memorable Quotes[]
Characters[]
- Old Roarkh
- Skirts-the-Corona
- Johnny
- Malcolm
- Garnets-For-Eyes
- Benjamin - Shadow Lord
Notable Corax:[]
- Einarr Flies-Like-Smoke, Viking navigator who inadvertently helped Leif Ericsson journey to North America.
- Bjarni Herjulfson - Corax Kinfolk
- Esmerelda Northrup-Medina, CEO of the Hermetic Society of the Swift Light (Helios Overnight Services)
- Ivan - Esmerelda's Husband
- Diego - Esmerelda's Son, Marked for the Change
- Raina Fader, private eye
- Sparkles, one of the ravens of the Tower of London
- Alexei Kovalenko, "The Cave of Winds," or "The Priest," Ukrainian spymaster
- Malachi Sunchaser, an elder who defends the Kinfolk of the Pacific Northwest
Terminology[]
Abominations, Bran, Breed, Camps: Chasers, Hermetic Order of Swift Light, The Morrigan, Murder's Daughters, The Sun-Lost; Corax, Corax Markings, Corvid (Raven), Crinos (Rara Avis), Glory, Gold, Helios, Homid (Breed and Form), Honor, Huginn, Moot (Parliament), Munin, Odin, Raven, Raven's Laws, Spirit Egg, Tengu, Tower of London, Umbra, Wisdom,
References[]
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