Quote: Hey, you! Stop pissin’ on my damn box! What do you think this is, a men’s room? This here’s my home, and ’f you don’t zip it and run right now, I’m gonna have to bite that thing off. You hear me? I BITE!

This urban tribe is tied instinctually to life on the street. Long ago, they began as scavengers in India and Northern Africa. Now they stalk wherever the homeless and desperate struggle to survive.

Appearance: Bone Gnawers wander the streets of mankind’s major cities passing themselves off as drifters, blue-collar types and homeless drop-outs. Even in Homid form, they often appear mangy, scrawny, starving and feral. Using this subterfuge, they patrol the streets. In Lupus form, their coats are a mishmash of clashing colours, stains and smells. Some try to pass themselves off as stray dogs or lost mutts, but any human can sense a Bone Gnawer’s muted rage and pain instinctively. Although some have bred with stray dogs to create strange hybrids, a desperate Gnawer can’t pass himself off as anything other than a feral and dangerous animal that’s more wolf than dog. Better call Animal Control, just to be sure.

Kinfolk: Gnawers often congregate in urban packs for their own protection, adopting runaways, street kids, drifters and the homeless into their streetwise gangs. Some of these allies and contacts are kinfolk; others are just victims in desperate need of protection. Kin can be found among any race or nationality in the world, but most such lost souls come from squalid, or at least struggling, backgrounds.

Territory: No other tribe knows about life on the street as well as these mutts do. While Glass Walkers lay claim to some of the most valuable real estate in the city, the Bone Gnawers stalk through some of the worst. Condemned or abandoned buildings, junkyards and landfills, dark alleyways and decaying slums are all common hunting grounds. Not all of their haunts are hellish, however. As the most democratic and egalitarian of the tribes, Bone Gnawers also protect the parts of a city established for the benefit of the average citizen. Honourable Garou defend public libraries, museums, playgrounds, city parks, homeless shelters and other places that welcome the (usually unwashed) masses.

Tribal Totem: Rat.

Initial Willpower: 4.

Background Restrictions: Bone Gnawers may not buy Ancestors, Pure Breed or Resources. Such good fortune typically falls to wolves from other tribes.

Beginning Gifts: Cooking, Resist Toxin, Tagalong.