- HOW Iwariwa the Cayman Learned To Share

- “HOW Iwariwa the Cayman Learned To Share,”

Greco-Roman and Germanic stories might be Mokol6 who had turned; Mokok-mbembe say that any Mokol6 who lived so far from Sun would go crazy. Western dragons make for poor player characters-ofcourse, agameofWerewolf: The Dark Agesmightprove interesting if there was a chance to play “the other side.’’ A few Mokol6-mbembe wander through Europe at present, but no wallows have existed there since the Ice Age.

Those who come often remember the days when Europe was tropical, part of ancient Laurasia.

Ambalasokei The caymans arrived at the party dressed in their best.

- “HOW Iwariwa the Cayman Learned To Share,”

Yanomamo folktale Ambalasokei, called South America by the whites, was the New World of the Mokok-mbembe. The rainforest had abundant prey and an ideal climate. The African Kin who came on the slave ships faced first the horrors of the Middle Passage, then the burden of bondage. But many escaped into the jungle, often with native help. Their African-style villages were human wallows run by true Mokok and offering sanctuary to any refugee.

The destruction of the Amazon rainforest has awakened the Mokol6 to the dying of Gaia. Elders such as Nyi the Feathered Thunder and her clutchmate Horned Thunder have awakened to find that the jungle is disappearing.

Pentex poisoned the wallow of Hooark-Oark and the Mokol6 abandoned it; Feathered Thunder, a Midnight Sun, has gone so far as to cooperate with the Garou Ghost Raptor pack in order to protect her nest. This wallow, Gr’rrashtakknyrr, is the largest remaining in Ambalosokei, and is a famous nesting ground; it has been in continuous use for over five hundred thousand years. It is the home of six Mokok, including Feathered Thunder and a Rising Sun named Songof-Younger-Days who has distinguished himself in the Amazon War. His kinsman, Strikes-like-Lightning, annihilated a Pentex First Team with the help of the Balam Smoking Mirror Wind. The memories of Trees Dream, the clutch’s Setting Sun, contained the key to curing the deadly “snow plague” that threatened the Garou nation. The Garou who carried the plague, Peter Ward, became the first Garou to receive the gift of the Memory.

Sfereof ypes an: Lost in tim Sandwalkers ne ans too much. How can be if it weren’t for t wars. I’d like to see if schools could surv Mokole‘ Che Zhong Lung Servants of Heaven Wolaru spoke.

I remember the strangers. Bajini came a little while ago. Not by your measure, by ours. Four hundred years? Five hundred?

Long enough for their houses to fall, their books to rot. Long enough for white men to say “We discovered Australia.”

Bandaiyan hadn’t seen strangers since the Ice. The Bajini were small, gold-skinned, with straight black hair. They came to fish. “No fish back home?” we wondered. They took sea slugs, dried them till their boats were full, then back on the greatstorm they sailed. Our women went to them because that means peace.

They gave the clean food, the white, clean food, rice. That was good eating - but too much work to grow it. They brought us more. Among them were shapeshifters like us. And we learned from them that the Wars were over, that the Wolves hadforgotten us. No one knew that Bandaiyan was even there, lost in the south sea. These were the Middle Dragons of Zhong Guo, the kingdom white men called “China.” Mokole‘? Yes, but from a different world. They remembered Dragon, not the Kings, and they WorshippedSunthrough theyear, nottheday. Still, they knew the Speech, and we learnedalotfromeachother. ZhongGuo has bled white in my own time. I might be a blackfella but I’m not blind and deaf, Peter . The great dragons live in my memory. Sun grant that they still fly in the waking world.

The hengeyokai, the shapeshifters of the East, recognize three kinds of dragons. The High Dragons are the great Dragon-spirits of the Mother, highest-ranking lords of the spirit world. The Low Dragons are the alligators, monitors and crocodiles of the land, the dragons made purely of flesh. And the Middle Dragons, the Zhong Lung, are the Mokol6 of the East. Eldest among the hengeyokai, they serve the Beast Courts of the Emerald Mother as sages, scholars, and mighty warriors. They are the strain of Mokol6 associated with water, and control the rivers and streams of legendary Zhong Guo.

Where and when Mokol6 first came to the Middle Kingdom is unknown, although the Zhong Lung say that the Dragon Kings are their progenitors. According to their tales, the Wani, the Dragon Kings of the Eastern world, gave five of their eggs to the Queen Mother of the West. She bore the eggs into the Middle Kingdom where they became the first Zhong Lung. Of course, there’s little evidence of this, and the truth remains unclear. The other hengeyokai are no help on this matter, as they all regard the Zhong Lung as eldest among shapechangers.

The Hwanlung xi, the Kinfolk “dragon-rearing fami. lies” of old China, survive to this day in the Yangtze river valley. They have served the Zhong Lung as Kinfolk since the Xia Dynasty. Their vigilance is necessary, as the egg of a Zhong Lung can remain viable and incubate for centuries, sleeping the Sleep of the Dragon before its birth.

The Wani are the Dragon Princes of Zhong Guo, ruling the clouds and the rising and falling of water, presiding over