Editing Werebat (section)

==Old World of Darkness==

In ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'', werebats, or camazotz, are one of the extinct Changing Breeds that the Garous tried to wipe out during the War of Rage.

They were originally Gaia's messengers, carrying knowledge through the Deep Umbra and coordinating among the Breeds.  Their patron, Bat, was particularly close to and loving towards his children.  Their role as messengers made them very good at running away and navigating hidden places without being caught, which unfortunately just meant that it took more than one horrible genocide to completely destroy them.

Their near-extermination during the War of Rage, which ''did'' extinguish all European camazotz, cracked Bat's mind, [[Konrad Curze| spawning two personalities; one devoted to Gaia, the other to vengeance and the Wyrm]].  Most of the survivors of the War of Rage were later hunted down by the Black Spiral Dancers, and then all of ''those'' survivors fled to South America, where Shadow Lord conquistadors mistook them for Tzimisce vampires, given their bat-like warforms and blood magic Bat taught them, and killed them off completely.

After ''that'', Bat went ''completely'' himshit and his Gaian aspect was wholly subsumed as he gave himself over totally to the Wyrm.  To their credit, the Shadow Lords eventually realized the utterness of their fuckup, and the descendant of the hunter who slew the last camazotz has devoted himself to undoing his ancestor's mistake, in recent times even freeing an aspect of Bat from the Wyrm's grip.  And there are rumors that a few camazotz survived ''even this'' out in the deepest depths of the Deep Umbra, occasionally dropping off information at old dead-drops to aid the other Gaians, though if so, they've understandably had enough of this shit and never show themselves to any other Gaians under any circumstances and no expedition to locate them has ever succeeded.

They reproduced like the corax, binding a spirit to a human child via a complex ritual that could fail at many stages, further limiting their ability to survive and making them vulnerable to population devastation.  Also like the corax, they had no metis; the ritual automatically failed if attempted for the child of two camazotz.