Tribe Novels: Bone Gnawers & Stargazers are fiction novels for Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
Summary[]
- Urban Warfare and Spiritual Struggle
- In Tribe Novel: Bone Gnawers, valiant Garou warriors return to Eastern Europe to eradicate the growing evil that has confounded their efforts thus far. Where the mighty and noble have failed, hope now rests with humble werewolves who make their homes in filth. In Tribe Novel: Stargazers, Antonine Teardrop may hold the key to Garou victory against the evil of Eastern Europe, but his tribe's withdrawal from the Garou Nation may have damaged his credibility beyond repair. Even if it has not, servants of the Wyrm want him dead.
Contents[]
Bone Gnawers[]
Prologue[]
Chapter One - Chapter Twelve[]
About the Authors[]
Stargazers[]
Prologue[]
Chapter One - Chapter Eleven[]
About the Author[]
Background Information[]
The Bone Gnawers section details the Silver River pack traveling to Szeged from Madrid, Spain. Once there, Cries Havoc falls into a coma from an attack from the winged banes coming from the river. The pack has to protect him from further attacks from Flood Banes, but are also aided by the local Bone Gnawers. With a council of other local Garou, they discuss purifying the river and dam. Many of the local Garou refuse to help, with only Halászlé aiding the pack on their quest.
Once there, they enter the umbra, and come under attack by numerous Flood Banes. Carlita calls for help and ends up summoning Uktena which destroys the dam and Banes. Uktena then tells the third pack that they have both succeeded and failed at the same time. For while they have purified the dam, Jo’cllath’mattric is now fully free.
The Stargazers section, details Antonine’s past and current events, such as trying to figure out Mari’s condition and helping Cries Havoc. Cries Havoc eventually comes out of his coma with the aid of a spirit under Helios. However, he cannot remember his First Change.
Antonine seeks information on the Silver Thread and runs into a former friend who has become a Black Spiral Dancer. His friend challenges him to Witscraft, but Antonine discovers that his friend forgetting his past is similar to Cries Havoc’s condition. Knowing that the Wyrm can only suppress and not destroy, he cites the Elemental Mantras taught to those who were once part of the Sept of the Snow Leopard. His friend bows to him, but to the other Spirals that is a sign of weakness and attack. Which makes it able for Antonine to flee from them.
Antonine then comes across Arkady and they both discuss the Silver Thread/Silver Spiral.
Memorable Quotes[]
"God.
Damn.
Brittle.
Leaf." - Pgs. 31, 41, 50 and 129
“I saw it in a dream. A fish-spirit came to me and told me that ‘In the third pack, the balance will be upheld by the young.’”
“Don’t fuck with me. Something came to you in a dream?”
“Yes! I swear – and then when I heard Mother Eldridge and Claws-of-Vengeance talking about this Stargazer and Red Talon and their third pack, I knew that it was more than just a dream. It was a real prophecy. The fish-spirits – they’re servants of Uktena. Uktena itself is the patron of this third pack!”
“You’re walking dangerously close to blasphemy, Soon-to-be-One-Eye.”
“It’s true. I’m of Uktena’s tribe. I know what I’m talking about.”
“So how does it involve me?”
“The balance will be upheld by the young. You’re the youngest Garou I know, and you’re a Philodox. You’re the young and the balance in the fish-spirit’s message. It’s not like I could just tell you ‘I had a dream and a fish told me that you need to volunteer for something coming up soon.”
“You got that right.” - pg. 44
"There is that. But do me a favor.”
“What’s that?”
“Don’t do me any more favors.” - Pg. 46
Cries Havoc placed his hand on Carlita’s shoulder.
“Remember Uktena’s lesson. Don’t fight the current, but guide yourself through it, wherever it leads.”
“Yeah?” Carlita said. “But how do I keep from drowning?” - Pg. 72
Antonine hung his head in shame. Had he done the right thing? He could no longer suppress his sorrow and sobbed. A single tear ran down his cheek.
An unknown voice spoke from nearby: “Do you shed a tear for yourself or for fear that your friendship is at an end? Cry not, young Teardrop, for you have done well. He who can master his rage enough to evoke it when truly needed shows wisdom.” - Pg. 233
He could scarcely believe what he had seen. If true, it implied that the Black Spiral Dancers, rather than being merely corrupt and evil creatures, were once the heroic, would-be saviors of the Wyrm when it was still the force of Balance, before it became the Lord of Defilement. They had succumbed to the madness of the Weaver, and their minds were trapped in the endless labyrinth she had crafted around her prisoner. They now shared in the captive serpent’s corruption. - Pg. 251-252
Antonine again struggled to maintain a neutral composure. Here again seemed to be another clue – a great forgetting. Could it be the same as Cries Havoc’s? “You chose to forget your past? Or was it taken from you?”
“I chose to have it taken. I yielded it up to the Wyrm and it gladly devoured it. Enough of the past! You seek to stall, to eke out more heartbeats than you deserve. It is time we engaged in our contest, Please, Antonine, begin. How can you possibly convince me that the Stargazer way is greater than the Wyrm’s?” - Pg. 265-266
This was the great lie of the Wyrm: that it could not destroy, only suppress and corrupt. - Pg. 267
“But you were not alone. Let that be a lesson for your tribe, Stargazer. If you gaze too long within, you miss what’s going on without.” - Arkady, Pg. 280
Trivia[]
- Ads in the book include: Exalted's Chosen of the Sun, Beloved of the Dead (Apr. 2002) and Tribe Novel: Children of Gaia & Uktena (Mar. 2002).
Characters[]
- Bone Gnawers
- Carlita Gutierreze, 'Big Sis'
- Storm-Eye
- John North Wind's Son
- Julia Spencer
- Cries Havoc
- Pillhead Pete - Bone Gnawer
- Brittle Leaf - Uktena Metis Ragabash, Sept of the Wounded Bay
- Mother Eldridge - Bone Gnawer Elder, Sept of the Wounded Bay
- Silicon Tears - Garou
- Jeremy "Winter Moon" Bleddsoe - Ahroun Garou
- Claws-of-Vengeance - Garou Sept Leader of the Follow North Sept
- Gloria Gutierreze - Carlita's Kinfolk mother
- Javier Gutierreze - Carlita's Kinfolk father
- Oliver - Pool Counter's manager, Human
- Earl - Mother Eldridge's boyfriend
- Doria - Human
- 'Little Al' Henry - New York Bone Gnawer Kinfolk, bargeman
- Father Hernando Cisneros - Garou, Thirteen Sorrows Sept
- Miguel - Kinfolk, Thirteen Sorrows Sept
- Runs-to-the-Sun - Ahroun Bone Gnawer, Thirteen Sorrows Sept, Training to be Sept Guardian
- Anthius Morningkill - Garou, Mentioned
- Jo'cllath'mattric
- Marino "Swallower-of-Fire" Laguia - Homid Sept Leader of the Thirteen Sorrows Sept
- Antonine Teardrop - Mentioned
- Winter's Breath - Get of Fenris Galliard, Sept of Anvil-Klaiven
- Mephi Faster-than-Death - Mentioned
- Mari Cabrah - Mentioned
- Luna's Song - Talesinger of the Thirteen Sorrows Sept
- Rovio - Mentor of Luna's Song, Died
- Attila the Hun - Claimed to be Shadow Lord Kinfolk, Historical Figure
- Sergiy Dawntreader - Mentioned
- Halászlé - Bone Gnawer of Szeged, Hungary
- Mother Sárköz - Bone Gnawer Leader of Szeged, Hungary
- Nagy Pénz - Glass Walker of Szeged, Hungary
- Margrave Yuri Konietzko - Mentioned
- Mihaly Long-Ear - Fianna Professor at Attila Jószef Science University, old friend of Mother Sárköz's
- Mareen Scents-Evil - Get of Fenris from Kiskunság National Park
- István - Shadow Lord from Hortobágy National Park
- Janós - Shadow Lord from Hortobágy National Park
- Ferenc - Bone Gnawer, friend of Halászlé
- Szabó - Bone Gnawer, friend of Halászlé
- Ilanya Silverfoot - Shadow Lord from the Sept of the Night Sky
- Bela Storms-the-Heights - Shadow Lord from the Sept of the Night Sky
- Jarlsdottir - Mentioned
- Stargazers
- Antonine Teardrop
- Master Chien - Stargazer Theurge, Mentor to Antonine
- Nadya Zenobia - Black Fury Theurge, Finger Lakes Sept
- Alani Astarte
- King Albrecht
- Evan Heals-the-Past
- Mephi Faster-than-Death
- Ivar Hated-by-the-Wyrm - Screaming Trailblazers Packmember, died, mentioned
- Arkady
- Margrave Yuri Konietzko - Mentioned
- John North Wind's Son
- Storm-Eye
- Cries Havoc
- Julia Spencer
- Carlita 'Big Sis'
- Jo'cllath'mattric
- Jarlsdottir - Mentioned
- Shakar - Bagheera
- Sergiy Dawntreader - Children of Gaia, mentioned, Leader of the Sept of the Dawn
- Grey Mountain - Fellow Cub to Cries Havoc, Children of Gaia from the Sept of the Dawn
- The Record Keeper - Ancestor Spirit
- Robert Antonine Erikson - Antonine's grandfather and his full name
- Laughing Crane - Stargazer Theurge, Teacher to Antonine
- Catrina "Cateyes" Scarborough - Stargazer trained by Laughing Crane, now elder to the Sept of the High Caves
- Wen Chou - Ex-Stargazer trained by Laughing Crane, Black Spiral Dancer, Died
- Lama Radhika Snowpeak - Stargazer Kailindo Instructor
- Chief Killingspear - Garou, Tale, Mentioned
- Librarian of Dreams - Spirit
- Jacob Morningkill - Mentioned
- Stuart Stalks-the-Truth
- Colum Treehefter - Fianna
- Grim Smiler - Fianna
Terminology[]
Adirondacks, Aetherial Realm, Alabama, America, Ancestor, Andalusia, Animal Courts (Section in a Realm), Anthelios, Appalachians, Archives of Civilization (Section in a Realm), Asia, Atlanta, Attila Jószef Science University, Bagheera, Bane, Bane Crow, Barajas Airport, Bastet, Bawn, Beast Courts, Belvarosi, Black Spiral Labyrinth, Blight, Botond (Restaurant), Budapest, Caern, California, Canada, Catskill Mountains, Catskills Protectorate, Celestial Histories (Section in a Realm), Celestine, Ceylon, Chimare, Chimera, Chimerling, China, Chinatown, Church of the Thirteen Sorrows, Cliath, Concolation, Corax, Cub, Dawn Times, Deep Umbra, Delirium, Den, Denver, Dirge for the Fallen, Dóm ter, Dream Realm, Eastern Europe, England, Ephiphs, Europe, Falcon, Fang Dagger, Fenris, Fera, Fetish, Finger Lakes Caern, First Change, Five Mantras of Primal Creation, Flood Bane, Florida, Follow North Sept (Florida), Fomor, Frenzy, Gaffling, Garou Tongue, Gatekeeper, Gauntlet, Georgia, Germany, Glade, Goa, Grand Concolation, Greece, Guardian, Gurahl, Hague, Harano, Helios, Hellhole, Hidden Eye Pack, Hid utca, Hive, Hollywood, Hong Kong, Hortobágy National Park, House Crescent Moon, Hungary, Iberia, Ibiza, Impergium, Incarna, India, Ireland, Jaggling, JATE Klub, Kailindo, Kathmandu, Kin Fetch, Kiskunság National Park, Kitsune, Klaive, Korös Caern (Hungary), Litany, London, Luna, Lune, Madrid, Malfeas, Master of the Rite, Mexico, Moon bridge, Moon-calf, Moon Path, Moot, Nepal, New Delhi, Newgrange, New York, New York City, North Country, Old City Sept (London), Pack that Runs in the Silver River, Pathstone, Pattern Web, Pentex, Penumbra, Pinellas Peninsula, Pole Star Path, Puerto Rico, Purest Resolve Monastery Sept (Stargazers: Western China), Realm, Red Star, Rite of Passage, Rome, Romina, The Saga of the Silver Crown, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay, Saugerties, Scotland, Screaming Trailblazers Pack, Semmelweis utca, Sept of Anvil-Klaiven, Sept of the Dawn, Sept of the High Caves (Stargazers: Kathmandu, Nepal), Sept of the Night Sky, Sept of the Wounded Bay (Bone Gnawer and Multitribal: Tampa, Florida), Serbia, Seventh Generation, Shigalu Monastery (Tibet, Fallen to the Wyrm), Silver Crown, Silver Moon Path, Silver Path, The Silver Record, Silver River Pack, The Silver Spiral, Silver Spirals, The Silver Thread, Singapore, Somogyi, Spain, Spirit, Stepping Sideways, Sticky Fingers Pack, Sub-realm, Switzerland, Széchenyi tér, Szeged, Talaimanar, Talen, Tampa, Tapestry, Thirteen Sorrows Sept (Spain), Tibet, Tisza, Tisza River, Tokyo, Toldy utca, Triat, True Gaia Realm (Gaiadharma), Uktena, United States, Vegarda, Wail of Foreboding, Warder, Warders of Men, Weaver, White Howlers, Witscraft, Wyld, Wyrm, Wyrm of Balance, Wyrm Pit,
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