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Age of Kings: The era when the Lizard Kings ruled

the earth.

Apocalypse: A time when one civilization falls,

leaving room for another to rise and take its place. For instance, the Mokolé survived an Apocalypse when the dinosaurs became extinct (see Wonder-Work).

Archid: The “battle-form” of a Mokolé. Unlike most

Changing Breeds, this form varies drastically from Mokolé to Mokolé.

Bête: Non-Mokolé shapeshifters.

Champsa: A varna associated with Nile crocodiles

(Crocodylus niloticus).

Clutch: A social grouping of Mokolé, usually a fam-

ily. Most guard and defend breeding grounds.

Designer: The shaper of Life (known to Garou as

the Weaver).

Devisor: The source of all creative power (known

to Garou as the Wyld).

Dissolver: The Unmaker of Life (known to Garou

as the Wyrm).

Drachid: The “lost” toolmaker form of the Mokolé;

the shape of the Lizard Kings. Since the end of the Age of Kings, no Mokolé has been able to assume this form.

Dragon’s Dream: A half-remembered Dream of the

Age of Kings. Also a future-Dream about a time when mankind’s civilization will fall and the lost races of the weresaurian will return to the world.

Gharial: A varna associated with gavials (Gavialis

gangeticus).

Grisma: Summer auspice of the Makara; judges and

law enforcers.

Gumagan: The Stream of Forerunners. Traditionally

from Australia and Oceania.

Halpatee: A varna associated with American alliga-

tors (Alligator mississippiensis).

Hemanta: Winter auspice of the Makara; tricksters

and rogues.

Innocents, the: The ghosts of the deformed and still-

born children created when two Mokolé mate.

Karna: A varna associated with saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus).

Lizard Kings: The Mokolé who ruled the earth

before their civilization was destroyed by the Wonder-Work.

Makara: The Stream of the Folk. Traditionally from

the Indian sub-continent. Also a varna associated with mugger crocodiles (Crocodylus palustris).

Mnesis: The ancestral memories of the Mokolé. Each

stream (see below) usually has related Dreams, but all of them include children who share the Dragon’s Dream (see above).

Mokolé-mbembe: The Stream of Fighters. Tradition-

ally from Africa and the Americas.

Old Ones: Mokolé, especially the pre-Wonder-Work

Lizard Kings.

Ora: A varna associated with some of the more than

70 species of monitor lizards.

Paisa: A varna associated with American crocodiles

(Crocodylus acutus).

Stream: An interwoven group of related Mnesis

bloodlines native to a specific area. Not “tribes” as such; more relatives that have grown apart.

Suchid: When capitalized, the reptilian form of a

Mokolé. When not capitalized, a Mokolé born from two reptilian parents.

Syrta: A varna associated with caimans (Caimaninae sp.) Unktehi: A varna associated with Gila monsters

(Heloderma suspectum).

Varna: The species of reptile into which an individual

Mokolé can transform.

Vasanta: Spring auspice of the Makara; warriors. Wallow: A home for suchid breed Mokolé and other

crocodilians or reptiles.

Wonder-Work (of the Wyrm): The Apocalypse that

ended the civilization of the Lizard Kings; known to human scientists as the “Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event,” which occurred 65.5 million years ago. Mnesis dreams of the event vary greatly, and many of these dreams may be false or distorted, but most attribute the event to the work of the Dissolver.

Zarad: Autumn auspice of the Makara; mystics and

spiritualists.

Zhong Lung: The Stream of Philosophers. Tradition-

ally from Asia and a part of the Emerald Courts of the Hengeyokai.

such reason, forming “imperfect clutches” to venture away from their wallows and sway destiny in their Breed’s favor. The latest generation of Mokolé wants to do more than witness and remember history; they want to create it.

Organization

The Lizard King’s Kin still walk the earth. But don’t bother looking for some Lost World where thunder lizards and T-rexes have survived extinction. That’s a myth distorting the real truth. The Mokolé are lurking, just below the surface, in swamps, seas, and rivers all over the world.

Streams

Weresaurians have survived as alligators and crocodiles, monitor lizards and Gila monsters, gavials, caimans, perenties — and stranger things that furtively spawn in the shadowy murk. Too few to form tribes, the survivors of this evolutionary pageant have gathered in four major “streams” based around four of the primeval rivers of the world.

The Mokolé-mbembe, the Stream of the Fighters, traditionally have stalked the swamps and waterways of Africa and the Americas. They are by far the largest of the four streams, and as the current End Times approach, their numbers are steadily growing. Decades ago, the Mokolé-mbembe were rarely sighted outside the depths of the Amazon Rainforest. Now, a more diverse variety of humans have awakened to the Dragon’s Dream, and their human and reptilian Kin are growing ever more diverse. The stream’s most common varna are alligators and crocodilians (including the American crocodile and Nile crocodile), but a few take the shapes of caimans or Gila monsters.

Australia and Oceania are home to the Gumagan, a stream represented primarily by Aborigines and Mela- nesians. Known as the Stream of the Forerunners, they are well-respected by other Mokolé for their insights into the spirit world, particularly the Dreamtime. Un- like other streams, all Gumagan are capable of entering the Umbra. They are known for their extensive and primeval Mnesis: their memories of the earliest days of the Earth. Most Gumagan varna are saltwater crocodiles or perentie monitors.

The Indian subcontinent serves as the spawning grounds of the Makara, the Stream of the Folk. The human politics, religion, and mysticism of the Indian sub-continent have heavily influenced this stream. The Makara consider themselves diplomats to the other Changing Breeds. Their four auspices are determined by the seasons, and are further subdivided by the caste systems of their homelands, to such a great extent that outsiders rarely understand the finer distinctions between them.

Makara varna are typically gavials, mugger crocodiles, and saltwater crocodiles.

Working with the other Asian Changing Breeds, the Zhong Lung are known as the Stream of the Phi- losophers. Although they have inherited the millennial Mnesis of countless scholars and teachers, because of their association with the Emerald Courts, they have the fewest memories of conflict with other shapechangers. Throughout the Middle Kingdoms of China, Korea, Ja- pan, and Vietnam, they have endured as the stream least harmed by the Garou. Known for their epic patience, their aspects are measured by the season in which they are born. Their varna are most often Chinese alligators, saltwater crocodiles, and monitor lizards.

Wallows

Mokolé live much humbler lives than they did mil- lennia ago. Their Dreams speak to them of past eons of saurian supremacy where their ancestors dwelled in herpetological luxury. But in the modern world, they maintain modest places where they can hide from those who would do them harm, spawning enough hatchlings to perpetuate their race. These breeding grounds are known as wallows, homes for the human and reptilian shapes they take.

Most wallows evolve in places where humans and reptiles can live side by side without raising overt suspicion: alligator farms in Florida, ruined temples to forgotten gods in India and along the Nile, riverside fishing communities in China, isolated hot springs in the Australian outback, and similar locales. Such places are few and far between; the human dislike of all things slithery and scaled is as deeply imprinted and ancient as the saurian’s own Dreams, and many humans look askance at those who interact with reptiles on a frequent and voluntary basis.

Clutches

Wherever intelligent living things gather, communi- ties emerge. Weresaurians form small, moderately social clans called clutches. Two clutches may harbor grudges and petty rivalries for generations, sometimes warring over misperceived slights, but ultimately, survival is their chief concern. When two clutches fight, they do not kill each other, but act to injure and shame their enemies enough to temporarily delay further conflict. This preserves their numbers, but (unfortunately) does little to quell rivalries between clutches.

A healthy, functional clutch depends on the rela- tionships between the different aspects (the weresaurian version of auspices) of Mokolé society. In the West, a grouping that contains representatives of all seven aspects is known as a “perfect clutch” — an extremely

rare occurrence. Some young weresaurians venture into the world specifically to form a perfect clutch, for there are legends and prophecies of what such groups can ac- complish. A group that includes five auspices is known as an “imperfect clutch”. These are becoming increas- ingly more common as more young heroes leave isolated wallows to seek their way in the world.

Traits

A Mokolé’s breed determines his Gnosis. Mokolé may not recover Gnosis if cut off from the sun. The less the Sun is visible, the more time Mokolé must spend meditating in his Light in order to regain Gnosis.

Mokolé regenerate wounds at the same rate as Garou, following the standard rules for healing and regeneration. However, Mokolé, as creatures of both Sun and Moon,