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{{Topquote|We have every reason to hate Man. The catalogue of his outrages against us would fill the Abyss. Across the world in recent years, Man's fear of our rising power has led us into open war with him. But even if Man were faithful to the Goddess, he would still have no place with us. Our way is the way of Artemis, the Virgin huntress, and her purity is our own. We shun Man for his weakness, his place in Gaia's shadow, not for his crimes.|A Black Fury, on Men... the gender, not the species.}} | |||
{{Topquote|Man can be kind, gentle, respectful and understanding. Like a dog, he may be a faithful companion, but will bite, and bite hard, if he feels himself wronged. Sadly, his confidence is so fragile that any hint of his weakness is often enough to bring him to homicidal rage. Man makes a good lap-dog, but far too often he has rabies, and must be put down for his own good. In the end, the choice is yours. Man is not evil by nature. The Wyrm, however, is only footsteps away from his heart.|Ditto.}} | |||
The Black Furies are one of the 13(-ish) remaining Garou tribes in [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]. They can be summed up as [[amazon]] werewolves. Whether they're one of the more rational tribes with a focus on saving human society from itself, or slavering lunatics who want to castrate every living thing with a Y-chromosome is largely dependent on the edition, the writer, and the subfaction you're talking about. We are ''not'' kidding about the misandry thing. Their original 1e creation myth '''literally''' can be boiled down to "in the beginning, Gaia was supreme, all was paradise, and women were the most important gender because women are connected to Gaia, and that's why they can get pregnant; when man realized he was powerless and inferior, he revolted, betrayed Gaia to the Weaver, defied nature by seizing control, and basically ruined everything". | The Black Furies are one of the 13(-ish) remaining Garou tribes in [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]. They can be summed up as [[amazon]] werewolves. Whether they're one of the more rational tribes with a focus on saving human society from itself, or slavering lunatics who want to castrate every living thing with a Y-chromosome is largely dependent on the edition, the writer, and the subfaction you're talking about. We are ''not'' kidding about the misandry thing. Their original 1e creation myth '''literally''' can be boiled down to "in the beginning, Gaia was supreme, all was paradise, and women were the most important gender because women are connected to Gaia, and that's why they can get pregnant; when man realized he was powerless and inferior, he revolted, betrayed Gaia to the Weaver, defied nature by seizing control, and basically ruined everything". | ||
Revision as of 14:48, 4 October 2021
"We have every reason to hate Man. The catalogue of his outrages against us would fill the Abyss. Across the world in recent years, Man's fear of our rising power has led us into open war with him. But even if Man were faithful to the Goddess, he would still have no place with us. Our way is the way of Artemis, the Virgin huntress, and her purity is our own. We shun Man for his weakness, his place in Gaia's shadow, not for his crimes."
- – A Black Fury, on Men... the gender, not the species.
"Man can be kind, gentle, respectful and understanding. Like a dog, he may be a faithful companion, but will bite, and bite hard, if he feels himself wronged. Sadly, his confidence is so fragile that any hint of his weakness is often enough to bring him to homicidal rage. Man makes a good lap-dog, but far too often he has rabies, and must be put down for his own good. In the end, the choice is yours. Man is not evil by nature. The Wyrm, however, is only footsteps away from his heart."
- – Ditto.
The Black Furies are one of the 13(-ish) remaining Garou tribes in Werewolf: The Apocalypse. They can be summed up as amazon werewolves. Whether they're one of the more rational tribes with a focus on saving human society from itself, or slavering lunatics who want to castrate every living thing with a Y-chromosome is largely dependent on the edition, the writer, and the subfaction you're talking about. We are not kidding about the misandry thing. Their original 1e creation myth literally can be boiled down to "in the beginning, Gaia was supreme, all was paradise, and women were the most important gender because women are connected to Gaia, and that's why they can get pregnant; when man realized he was powerless and inferior, he revolted, betrayed Gaia to the Weaver, defied nature by seizing control, and basically ruined everything".
Either way, their Totem Pegasus is a big time misandrist who will only allow female Garou to join the Tribe (with the possible exception of male Metis born to an established Black Fury. Again, their characterization is super inconsistent.) They tend to have at least a passable relationship with the Bone Gnawers and Children of Gaia, which is where they tend to direct any male children they produce.
Some of them lean pretty heavily on the Greek Mythology angle and work closely with the Sisters of Hippolyta from Mage: The Ascension. Others are dedicated to infiltrating human religious institutions, making them werewolf amazon nuns.
They're also notable for being one of the "Tribes of the Wyld", making them uniquely suited to interact with the weird flux-spirits that inhabit the Umbra. These skills are often in high demand, especially considering that the other "Wyld Tribe" is the Red Talons, and as bad as the Furies get, they're still preferable to the Talons' bullshit.
Traditionally, the Black Furies have been the "feminist" faction, with a sacred mandate to respect women and protect them from abuse. As with other factions in the World of Darkness, exactly how much they have secretly been pulling the strings behind literally every feminist achievement of human society, from the suffragettes and establishment of protective shelters for abused women to modern-day SJWs, depends heavily on the edition - earlier editions attribute more direct influence to them than to humans.
Camps of the Black Furies consist of:
- Amazons of Diana:: Less a formal group and more a catch-all for the more violent, warlike and modernistic Furies. The "hate men for being men" mentality is particularly attributed to these girls. In 1e, they were (possibly?) known as the Maenads.
- Avenging Mother: A small secret society of Black Furies seeking to destabilize Garou politics to force the Garou to become matrairchal.
- Bacchantes: The "conservatives" of the Furies, dedicated to their traditional role of destroying anyone who wrongs women or children. Their track-record against taking down female abusives is spotty to say the least.
- Freebooters: Black Furies dedicated to finding new Wyld places to be consecreated into caerns... but there's not really a lot of these left. A sub-faction believes that they need to go exploring the Umbra and find a new body for Gaia elsewhere.
- Moon-Daughter: Black Furies who have infiltrated the New Age and Neo-Paganism movements in order to turn these into tools to preserve Gaia.
- Order of Our Merciful Mother: The original iteration of the Moon-Daughters, Black Furies attempting to subvert Christianity from within and redirect its focus from a patriarchal god (the Weaver) to a matriarchal goddess (Gaia). The most derided kuklos within the Tribe. Not helping is that a number have become genuinely converted to Christianity themselves.
- Sisterhood: The information network, heavily infiltrated into support networks for abused women and children.
- Temple of Artemis: One of the oldest kukloi. The hyper-conservatives, so fixated on returning to their original Tribal purpose that they advocate a withdrawal from the Garou Nation. They also act as the judges for Furies who break tribal customs.