Editing Aswang (section)

==In NWoD==
Aswang have appeared in two separate sourcebooks for the [[World of Darkness|Chronicles of Darkness]]: the 1st Edition "Antagonists" sourcebook, and the [[Vampire: The Requiem]] 1e sourcebook "Night Horrors: The Wicked Dead".

The generic Aswang presented in the former sourcebook are a species of blood-drinking Filipino shapeshifters. During the day they appear as beautiful women, and reproduce by marrying human men; sons are human, daughters are more aswang. However, they never smile in a way that shows their teeth, because the fact that they have twice the normal amount of canine teeth (8) is blatantly obvious. At night, they shift into a more feral [[hag]]-like form, with elongated fangs and claws. They need to feed on blood on a regular basis, using hypnotically beautiful singing voices to lure people into range of their teeth. These aswang can and do genuinely love their human husbands, and will usually struggle to keep them ignorant of the fact their wife goes out every so often to eat people.

Night Horrors presents three specific species of aswang, all shapeshifters who are often ignorant of their true nature during the day, but assume a monstrous, blood-drinking form at night. The Halimaw becomes a winged demonic humanoid, the Tik-tik becomes a blood-sucking bird-bat thing, and the Sigbin becomes a hornless goat which attacks with ears it can clap to lull victims into a trance and a tail it wields like a whip. Oh, and just to make it clear; White Wolf didn't make up '''any''' of these creatures, these are all ''real'' Filipino monsters. Even the Sigbin. Southeast Asian mythology is ''weird''.

In all cases, vampires absolutely '''hate''' them, as the aswangs have no traditions of hiding their depredations nor any of the special powers that enables vampires to hide their feeding. Add in that aswang ''have'' to kill their meals, which only makes humanity take up arms, and it should be no surprise that the Kindred are doing their best to exterminate these "cheap Filipino knockoffs".