Homebrew Camazotz Species Details

The werebats were known as the Ears of Gaia (or, ironically, Her Voice). They were messengers, but of a very different sort from the Corax. While the Corax are natural gossips, spreading information to everyone willing to listen, the Camazotz were secret messengers. Their Gifts of speed, stealth, and heightened perception made them excellent spies who would keep what they discovered between their allies and Gaia. One of their strengths, as well as one of the major reasons that the Garou feared them, was that it was exceptionally difficult to know if one of the Camazotz was listening to a conversation. Individuals might gather in secret only to learn that as soon as the meeting ended, their enemies knew everything they had said. All that one of the Camazotz needed to observe a scene was for a single tiny bat to hide itself in a corner.

The Camazotz were doomed as soon as their patron turned their back on them. Like Corax, Camazotz were made rather than born; when Bat finally turned to the Wyrm, he warped the spirit pacts that fueled their creation ritual. At best, the ritual simply failed. Other times it connected the infant to a Bane. Many of those children died young, exploding in a conflagration of baelfire or sending a spiritual beacon to other Banes. A few grew to maturity before the Bane within chose to manifest, creating a powerful Fomor.

When the Camazotz saw what happened to their children, they realized that there would be no next generation. Bat had fallen, and in doing so, doomed the Camazotz. The remaining few of a Breed that had survived war with the Garou, the madness of their patron, and the treachery of their own children, fled into the Umbra, never to be seen again. A handful of Umbral travellers claim that the Camazotz are not yet dead. Though they have no totem, the last werebats still serve Gaia as spies and messengers throughout the Deep Umbra. They're said to leave messages in dead-drops, and to give information in ways that the recipient never knows who delivered it. Some Nuwisha and Corax - the most experienced Umbral travellers of all the Changing Breeds - have tried to confirm these rumors. Though they lived for far longer than many Changing Breeds believe, when their totem fell to the Wyrm the Camazotz became extinct.  

Camazotz Traits

Camazotz have no Metis Breed, nor Auspices, Weak against Silver, Step sideways into Umbra while in shadow or darkness, difficulty for all rolls associated with hearing is -2, Nightvision

Keen Hearing

A bat has keener sense of hearing than normal, and as such, can hear extremely well in all forms.