![[battania 1.png]] # The Wolfskins ## Noble Youths in Wilding - Mafia ### Tier 3 Mafia Outlaws The Wolfskins are heirs to a long tradition in the [[Battanian]] lands wherein great warriors went "wildling" for part of their youth, learning the ways of the woods and how to suffer hardship. So long as a Wolfskin wears no sewn clothes, eats no cooked food, and sleeps under no roof, he is immune from the laws of man. In fact, the modern Wolfskins tend to be the sons of wealthy families taking a few years to indulge their feral side, robbing travelers and living viciously and not necessarily hewing to the old code. The Wolfskins are a minor clan of [[High-Kingdom-of-Battania]]. Former members are [[Deimul]] [[fen-Gruffendoc]], [[Caladog]]'s cousin, and Ferionn, [[the-Ragged-(Battani)]], [[fen-Dairl]]. The Wolfskins have ties to [[fen-Uvain]]. # Game Files / Developer Diaries (Ferionn [[the-Ragged-(Battani)]]) > Fah. The [[Wolfskins]] are rich feral children, playing at being animals. There was one in my band, [[Deimul]] [[fen-Gruffendoc]], a cousin of the High King. He had a quick tongue. He mocked me, every chance he had. I was slow and could never think how to answer. One night I couldn't take it any more. I pulled my knife, and we fought. I stabbed him in the thigh and no one knew how to staunch the bleeding so he bled to death. "One of the [[Battanian]] minor factions is the Wolfskins - a society of young warriors who have left their clans to live a life of freedom (and violence) in the woods. So long as they live 'as wolves' - eating no cooked meat, sleeping under no roof, and wearing no woven cloth - they are exempt from the laws of men. The Wolfskins are inspired by the Fianna, a fighting brotherhood who were the stars of a major Irish saga. It treats them as heroes, but they also have a dark side, extorting money from clans who are interested in mundane things like marriage and crops and don't have time to fight all the time. Simon Young, a historian who wrote a brilliantly entertaining reconstruction of "darkest Britain," AD 500, suggests that the Fianna may in reality have given rise to legends of werewolves. The Code of the Wolf however is our own invention." | | | | ---- | ---- | | Source(s) | Text | | comment_strings.XML | string id="str_comment_special_clan_intro_wolfskins.default" text="{=U9u8Qeu4}Perhaps you've heard of the Wolfskins, traveller. We are beasts. Know that so long as we eat no cooked meat, wear no woven cloth, and sleep under no roof, we cannot be touched by the laws of men. So tread carefully with us."> |