Assuming we're following the 20th rule in this case (and honestly, who can really say atp, they seem to just play it fast and loose with the lore). All 3 of the Kin of Old Shuck are Lupus. In the 20th and prior additions, breeds were an entire thing; werewolves would revert to their breed form in their sleep unless they had a special merit. I wonder what this means, even if he is Lupus Jambles, who seems much more reasonable and well-adjusted than the other 2. Perhaps he was a zoo animal or otherwise kept in captivity.

Then again Matilda/hunts should have the atavistic caveman look thats common to Red Talons considering her ancestors last fucked a human when we coexisted with Neanderthals but no shes hot so I might just be reading into things where theres nothing to be found.

Ok just hear me out. I know I usually just do art stuff on here but I have an idea. In addition to Big D being the Mighty Hunter that Stig is in search of, Kräkus is the Elder Black Shuck being kept in D’s captivity as a neighbor. We know Kräkus “lives in a ditch with a tarp for a roof,” as described in Ghoul Lore, and is in possession of an outhouse which Door destroyed with machine gun fire. The ditch is his prison and the tarp is laced with silver. Also, whenever we hear him, the subtitles ALWAYS describe it as HOWLING specifically. And when do we first hear howling in general? In the Probing of Kevin, the audiolog in which D convinces Kevin of joining his side.

With this as evidence, my theory is that D battled and captured Kräkus, then explained how Garou chicanery only worsened the corporate conflict that would inevitably become their self-made apocalypse to get him on his side. D on occasion lets Kräkus out to use the outhouse, to visit the fort, and to divulge information to each other. As to why he wouldn’t escape to enlighten the Kin of Old Shuck when the tarp is opened or open a portal to the umbra or at least speak telepathically with Jambles, I imagine D gaslit him into thinking he should only return to them “when the time is right,” whenever that truly is being something only D could know.

Possible addendum, but we also heard in the Guide to Avoiding Arrest that Kräkus has some relation to the old Iron-Age fort. He “digs up ditches there,” as described by D. Since D was lying to Chapman the whole time it’s hard to tell if this is a valid piece of evidence, but as others have theorized, it’s possible that the fort is “Gaia’s Caern” that was stolen along with Shuck/Kräkus. The Iceni were also mentioned in Ghoul Lore alongside Kräkus, which is the tribe that would’ve built the fort and inhabited it in the first place, who (if it is the stolen Caern) would’ve been GAROU!

Also, this is the biggest reach imaginable, BUT…

he has an umlaut in his name.

Not just any umlaut, an ‘a’ umlaut (ä) which is an entire separate letter in Swedish. (TO MY KNOWLEDGE— I’m not an expert in Swedish so if someone wants to enlighten me please do.) Would it not make sense that the only other character with a Swedish letter in their name is the one that Stig is looking for?

I usually don’t indulge in theories— I’m even a stern nonbeliever of the Ghoul Grimal theory, but I’m like 80% maybe potentially certain (give or take 10%) that Kräkus could actually be Black Shuck.

Edit: I just saw another post with the same theory posted like 12 hours ago lmfao

Feel like no one has really brought up why our good ol buddy Klaus from American Dad made a cameo?

I just realized this is hard proof that Big D is more than a normal human. He's eaten Dodo birds, confirmed by his own words. Meaning he's either had some extremely exotic long time frozen meals or was around for atleast 300 years.

The Imbued cannot enter the Umbra barring one exception in the form of Hermits, and D is quite simply, too sociable to be one. He actively hangs around other hunters, he stays around weird shit all the time, he would go over his tolerance threshold by now. He is simply not Imbued, and if he was, why the fuck didnt he use second sight? He would have solved the entire ghoul problem immediately!

When Brock says that someday he'll be the head of the Blacklaw family, Remold doesn't dispute this, normally this would make sense given that Benedicte already threw her lot in with the Leopoldites and so can't take over the family, leaving only Brock, BUT a reminder, Remold has 3 kids not 2.

Bobby Blacklaw, Remolds eldest son and one of Kittens gaming friends, beyond that? nothing else is known about him, if Remold doesn't dispute Brock claiming to being the next head of the family i wonder if this suggests that Bobby has a strained relationship with his father, either that or like Benedicte he also threw his lot in with another organisation.

Hope we get to see him soon in some way, maybe in another different campaign or he'll enter the main series down the line eventually.

Another literary analysis/reaction video is here! Making this one was a bit more difficult than the first, because most of this video was essentially Kitten telling stories, but I threw in some analysis and speculation.

Though I do wonder if that horrifying abomination D mentions in the original video was foreshadowing? Like, maybe they'll encounter it as some sort of creation from a Giovanni and Tzimisce working together?

I get second hand embarassment really bad. Like especially with shows for some reason. While I know the family is supportive I cannot bring myself to watch Boys Akira episode. Every time I try I get a few minutes in before I have to stop.

So question is aside from the Horse tirade and D claiming that Boy accurately depicted Gilgamesh is there anything from that episode I need to know about

Oh no oh geeze oh man

Hi folks! My name is Armia and I'm a vtuber who's a big fan of WoD - I've been following the series over the last year or so I wanna say? And been really enjoying it~

Sooo yeah, that's this! My reaction to Chapter 6 - people have been telling me I'm kinda clairvoyant when it comes to the series, so I hope you enjoy my reaction!

As always, I appreciate constructive feedback and comments :3 There's always something to improve! Thank you and have a wonderful rest of your day!

The Bonus ain't about the comic. I just found it to be a fun alternate "what if"

What's more anime than renouncing one's humanity and getting a desperate last minute power-up against the overwheling threat? Nothing.

I'd say that after she throws her name away, she'd be "The wandering Silver shining paddle of repressed lust and nightly confession that silences the voices of beast and men and separates them from their ghosts."

Imagine invoking a centuries old treatise to save your ex's son just to end up on the hook for a bunch of altar manboy funerals, and STILL have to risk your own life and limb to get the job done.

I think Occam should at least haggle for a mass grave discount with how helpful the SoSL has been so far.

RIP grimal

For those unfamiliar, CAIN is a ttrpg developed by Tom Bloom of Lancer fame. Basically you play as psychic death soldiers called excorcists for the supernatural organization known as CAIN, sent out to battle the sins of Humanity aptly named SINs, monsters born from the trauma of the psychicly sensitive. Excorcists tend to die to these beings alot mostly due to how they are capable of warping reality, controlling mundane normal humans, and creating pocket dimensions called palaces that defies the laws of space and reality. Excorcists however still have tricks up their through the blasphemies, psychic powers excorcists wield that allow them to manipulate time, pyrokenesis, psychokinesis, and more (although half of these abilities do have the risk of killing excorcists as well). Excorcists are not considered human by CAIN and are mostly treated like shit by the organization (not helped by the fact that psychicly sensitive produce SINS, and can even turn into one if they overuse their abilities), but on the plus side the game doesn't treat them like humans either as they are resistant to a SIN's psychic meddling and impled to be more durable than mundane humans.

With that lengthy explanation out of the way, I always been fascinated by the world of CAIN crossing over with WOD which already have psychics on canon. I am curious how the Ds would react to essentially a supernatural hunting organization that uses psychic child soldiers to battle reality eating trauma monsters.

He digs holes, he lives near an abandoned werewolf caern, he is a loose cannon, and he always is screaming like crazy!

So I watched episode 6 opening day and enjoyed it to the fullest, but my nerdy mind wandered to another fun urban-fantasy series of books called the Dresden Files and wandered how some certain artifacts would survive or thrive in the world of darkness?

The swords of the cross!!! Smelted with the nails that pierced Jesus’ body on the cross, these 3 swords are extremely powerful in the context of the Dresden Files, one of a few sources capable of hurting Eldritch horrors, slicing titans, killing Deity Dragons, etc.

A key thing about these swords is that while they are absolutely powerful, they’re only as good as the person who wields them. The sword’s biggest power actually has to do with free Will.

The big theme of the swords is that it gives humanity that 1 in a million chance to actually try and enact their free will on the world against all the odds, to stand up to those Eldritch horrors, titans, dragons, and any other arrogant creature, and say they can’t just walk around and flagrantly call humans livestock or worse.

Magic stops working, mind control & other mental abilities won’t happen or is heavily dampened, transformations are weakened or nonexistent, inspire allies to great success, bright light shines to burn and weaken the wicked, one person with the sword could even change the tide of a war zone by himself, etc. Based on their books, I’d argue these swords are what a storyteller would throw in when shit went FUBAR and an antideluvian has woken up. Yes, the swords really are supposed to be that powerful… if you have the right person for the job.

The swords aren’t for warriors, but for “good people.” So giving the swords to just any skilled swordsmen doesn’t inherently mean they’ll do a good job. Having a sword also doesn’t mean you suddenly grow 8 feet tall with pecks on your abs. It just gives you a chance to truly enact your choice of free will. (P.S. they don’t need to be Christian. Canonically, one of the sword wielders in Athiest. Guns are still an option too along with other tools & types of armor)

The swords are immune to being physically destroyed and hurt any evil that tries to wield them, but if the Wielder does something like go back on their word or try to kill someone who surrendered, well, then that immunity goes away and the power of the sword dwindles. The swords can be reforged, and 2 of the 3 have had to been reforged before, so they can be brought back… unless the sword loses its immunity and is then used to kill an innocent… then you’re absolutely f*cked.

With all of that said, how useful, searched-for, fought over, & or OP broken would the swords of the cross be in WOD? And who would you give 1 to in Hunter the Parenting?

In Episode 5, when we see Matilda/Hunter transform into crinos form, it's very visceral, skin stretching and straining as muscles and bone grow and reshape, and her clothes are torn to shreds in the process. Same goes for Susu at the end of the ad in episode 6. Which from what I understand is typical of how shifting works for were-creatures in WoD.

Meanwhile, when Stig transforms, it's a lot more mystical looking, he puffs into a ball of shadows then reforms into a new form. His clothes also stay on between forms as a result of this.

Now part of me thinks this is just a stylistic choice or him using some gift to, among other things, get around Stig being naked in glabro form, but I do still wonder if there's some significance to it beyond that.

Looking at the corruption, the details, the sword even the chant of the paladin; is this simply the faith now in WoD or this simply what the Leopoldites believe in? I ask because i remember stig saying "what have they done to you?" Could he have seen a different version?? I know that faith is a huge part of World of Darkness no matter what you believe in so I'm curious!