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Let's get to it Welcome back to the firepump grab some dirt grass or a spinal log and settle in for your next lesson Well, it's time we were together and mentioned that there were tribes who were very picky about their membership and covered the black Furies tribe of Garu that is almost exclusively made up of women Well tonight we're gonna go to the opposite end of that spectrum and talk about a tribe that will accept pretty much anyone the bow Nars where the furies proudly tracks their ancestry back to a specific location The Nars either forgot the vocation of their founding or more likely don't care enough to be bothered to remember it Either way the tribe probably started somewhere between Northern Africa and India But quickly spread far beyond that as they followed humanity and it spread across the face of Gaia According to their own legends The first bone dollar was the little brother of the first member of all the other tribes the run to the litter But still a scraper as all Garu are it is said that he was small He was also the best warrior of them all but because of his lankiness and loudness He was frequently cut out of the best part of the kill by his much larger kin left with only the bones He made do avoiding the fat flaviness of his siblings He was lean mean and tough as the gristle that he dined on One day the little scraper had had enough and decided he wouldn't be pushed out of another kill So he has to plan to trick the others into allowing him his fair share of the kill using his superior wit He convinced the others that the kill was diseased and unfit for their consumption as they backed away However, he dove in and ate with gusto only to be called of the worm by his oldest sibling told to go back to gnawing on bones This of course pissed him off, but he finished his meal anyway It was then that the worm arrived the real worm this time thundering out from below the ground The oldest was taken out quickly and the other members of the pack fell to injury behind them Well, our little bone-knowing hero hung back watching and waiting for his chance Finally, he saw his opening the soft spot on the hide of the great worm He darted in and sunk his teeth into the spot, ripping and pulling he gnawed into the very bones of the great beast Blocking his jaws, the tainted creature was so pained by the wound that it flooded nearly taking the run with him Yeah, yeah, having seen all of this spoke up and so shall it always be the children of the Nars of bones who bide their time and prudence And strike when the hour is best for their survival Now, well, I highly doubt the accuracy of this tale I do think that it does a very good job of describing the bone-nars overarching theme Survival survival at all costs in any way necessary Don't put your neck on the line unless there's a dam good reason for it This drive to survive is what has driven the bone-nars to do something few other tribes have done Where most werewolves do their best to avoid human population centers The bone-nars make these very same places their homes How better to survive the oncoming apocalypse and guide man than to do it from right next to them after all During the impergium the bone-nars did their part to call and control the human population Not necessarily because they wanted to but because they were forced to they contributed by spreading disease and famine things that their tribal totem will rat as well burst in This affinity for rats led the bone-nars to be one of the more nautical tribes after all What ship doesn't have a few rats aboard has been spread across the globe So too did these sea dogs follow but it was only when man began to settle in cities that they became truly civilized It was around the founding of Rome that the first mention of bone-nars living within cities surfaced They learned there that they were good at living off the scraps of human civilization They also discovered that they were good at hiding snooping and sneaking through the dark corridors and catacombs that made up the city's architecture It was also there that they found that their hatred for slaves and slavery and began their second mission to lift up the downtrodden The Nars did whatever they could to free those living in chains and bring them the freedom that they so loved themselves Things were going fairly well for them until the double hit of the Inquisition and black plague Themselves immune to the plague the ancient Nars did what they could to aid the poor who were struck the hardest from it But ended up being carriers and spreading it further This great mistake led to what they called the piping a grand moat to be called in Marsolona sometime during the Renaissance Every nore of the world over was called to the city where they met and the catacombs below it After many long nights of talking the bone-nars enacted what they called the man of land Helped not man for his survival unless it threatens ours heard no man unless he threatens us Kill not man for food unless we might perish Simple enough rules that anybody could remember them but powerful enough to convey their promise No longer would the bone-nars roam around picking up food for the hungry and finding places where they're homeless to sleep They would look after their own and that was it They couldn't afford to be wiped out like the ratkin that aided them They were to be guy's last line of defense after all Soon after this piping discovery of the new world led to a second grand mareton During this meeting it was decided that the tribe would abandon the majority of its european territory and Migrate en masse to the new continents that had been discovered across the ocean american bone-nars soon found themselves fighting at bunker hill Exploring the frontiers as mountain men and trappers and putting heads with the thinly spread guard that were already in the americas Soon enough these nars found that their usefulness as scouts and explorers was no longer needed by the other tribes And they were once again discarded by the more war-like members Many turned to alcohol and drugs and things were not looking well for the tribe But they did what they did best and survived As the civil war came about the nars once more found themselves a group of enslaved people and band of man be damned And they stepped up and helped mrs. Tubman free people whenever wherever they could just like they'd been doing since wrong But the war of the states over america moved on and was soon taken by the industrial beast the world changed all over again In just a matter of years now almost intrinsically tied to the cities of men the bone-nars were forced to change as well or to survive Always survivors they quickly learned about steam electricity and gunpowder They learned about mechanics architecture and engineering and claimed to be the first guard to speak to the spirits of those machines in the streets Upon which they operate The bone-nars still living in their preferred place among the lowest of society were scooped up with them and fed into the great industrial machine to be dumped Out the other side their lungs black bodies broken But as always they persevered surviving and doing whatever it took to survive no matter what This same thread of survival led through the market crashing great depression when they struck up strange alliance with a similar look down upon clan of vampires Known as the Nosferatu these sewer-dwelling bloodsuckers probably would have been torn to bits by any other tribe But the Nars saw use of them and soon enough they controlled a good portion of New York City with their help Don't be spreading that last bit about those some of the other tribes will discuss down the line.
We wouldn't appreciate it very much Anyway, the bone-nars made it through the dust bowl creeping west with the immigrants that flowed in through Ellis Island Once more though the world changed as Hitler and the Nazi party kicked off world war two giving the Nars no choice But to once again ignore the band of man and join the fight all across Europe Nars led raids against German supply lines while running rather profitable black markets with the purloin goods Many bone-nars rose to fame fighting on the front lines and took great pleasure in freeing the folks that had been held in the camps This instinct in calling to survive holds true even to this day as their hodge-podge traditions Their steps surprisingly democratic and it finishes and writes scavenged from Gaia nose-wear They still maintain odd alliances with vampires and wear rats They thrive in cities occupied decaying suburban wastelands and even the prospered rundown backwaters Their creed is clear and simple whatever works and work It does as they are the tribe with the largest number of members by far The children of rat know all kinds of secrets They have learned from the invisible people of the city as well as those seen by other garu as being below them Their wicked fighters who have mastered various vicious guerrilla tactics suited to their urban environments They know where to find food or where to seemingly conjure it from garbage They take in those werewolves that no other tribe will claim including those born of the third breed who are treated exactly the same as all other members of the tribe This leads to the Nars one major weakness The other tribes tend to keep them at a distance meaning that they have few true allies This weakness however has contributed greatly to their strengths of self-reliance out of necessity Another unfortunate weakness of the tribe is a gradual thinning of a wolf blood within their kinfolk While they have some lupus packs as kin They have mainly kept their numbers up through human partners and through recruiting They are thick with the children of garu love both their own and those they have adopted to become soldiers of rat They honor hospitality and generosity as a measure of a garu Aaru is very little but gives it away freely as a steam as a king They treat their tribe like a family their elders being considered mother and father the most prestigious form of dress Bonars venerate their tribal tone of rat in the same way as a maternal figure a queen of a brood of ragged survivors Rat is the swift silent master of the hit and run warfare While she fights for the downtrodden in the cities she can be as vicious as any other war tone in one quartered Mama rat is particularly fond of children and cubs and she urges her father's to protect them from harm the incimation The bonars are a tribe of survivors who fight for those who are too weak to fight for themselves Champions of the poor destitute and downtrodden their masters of guerrilla warfare and surviving in the most inhospitable locations imaginable I think that's probably enough for one night though. So settle in and get some sleep next time We'll talk about the children of Gaia, but until then Don't let the worm bite That's it for this week's episode of lore of the apocalypse if you have any comments or suggestions reach out to me and either twitter or patreon By searching for the underscore toe ring thank you all for listening But a very special thanks goes to my patrons bambi parsons the primogen and alex m without your support the battle for gaya would have already been lost