A Guide to
The Fianna
Background information
As yet uncredited
The Tribes
There are 13 tribes of werewolves (Garou) in the world. Those that
predominate in the UK & Eire are:
- Black Furies - All female. Spread out across Europe from Bronze Age Greece
- Bone Gnawers - Associated with derelict areas and the urban poor
- Fianna - People of Celtic descent
- Get of Fenris - People of Norse and Germanic descent
- Glasswalkers - Associated with urban areas since the first cities were built
- Silent Striders - Nomadic traders and message carriers. Originally from Ancient Egypt - now associated with Travellers & Romany
- Silver Fangs - Spread with the Roman Empire, then associated with central & southern European aristocracy
An exciting map of their territory will be available when I can find a
machine with the right version of Canvas on it to open the bloody
thing. That'll teach me to use Pete's machine instead of trailing home
to use my own...
A history of who arrived when and where is also available, but I ain't
retyping it all here. Basically the original Garou in the UK were the
'Red Talons' and the 'White Howlers'. Both are now extinct - the latter
fatally so, whilst the Talons just buggered off when the last wild
wolves died out. The 'Children of Gaia' and the 'Stargazers' exist in the
UK in small numbers. There's probably a caern or two around Glastonbury...
The Fianna
The Fianna are all peoples of Celtic descent, and basically represent
the Celtic fringe "at the edge of the world" as the other tribes have
gradually pushed them into the Atlantic Ocean. They predominate in
Ireland (sharing the isle with some Get of Fenris) and their major
strongholds in mainland UK are western Scotland (Dalriata=Scot),
eastern Scotland (Pict), Wales (Dumnonii) and Cornwall (Demetae). In
mainland Europe there are a few Fianna in Brittany and Albania.
The various Fianna groups and their kinfolk speak the surviving Celtic
tongues (Welsh, Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic). As well as these, the
Galliards and Theurges have kept alive the "extinct" tongues - Pictish
and Cornish. Theurges & Philodoxes in Scotland use Pictish
hieroglyphics as well as the more traditional Ogham in rituals, etc.
The Fianna wolf form tends to be black or reddish in colour, rather
than the more usual shades of grey, and many retain green eyes even in
this shape.
Politics: the Fianna are currently on good terms with the Black
Furies, Bone Gnawers and Silent Striders. They are a bit worried that
the Silver Fangs are losing it, and don't trust the Glasswalkers or Get
of Fenris as far as they could spit them. (The former 'cos they are
far too obsessed by cities and things of the Weaver; the latter 'cos
they are fascist psychos who can't take a joke...)
The view several of the other tribes hold of the Fianna usually
contains the phrase "drunken layabouts".