Hunters in Darkness
The Hunters in Darkness (Meninna in the First Tongue, lit. "the crowned hunters") are one of the five Tribes of the Moon. They are primal stalkers who hold their territory to be sacrosact and protect it by the sacred calling of the Hunt.
Tribal Oath
Let No Sacred Place in Your Territory Be Violated. (Nu Mus Halhala in the First Tongue). Some Hunters focus on their home, at the site of their First Change, at the territory of their Pack, at a Locus, various historical places of importance or even their own mortal family, but in all cases the territory is sacred and to be protected. The First Tongue term the Hunters use for their territory is mus-rah, or “holy killing ground,” and they treat any violation of as a slight that must be avenged. What constitutes a violation also varies from from Hunter to another. Some may destroy only those who despoil loci or disrupt the Hisil, while others consider even the most clueless human presence a violation that warrants murderous retaliation.
Totem
The Hunters in Darkness revere Hikaon-Ur, Black Wolf, whom they also name the Silent Mother or Mother Wolf — a fact that doesn’t always sit well with the other tribes, who hold that title as one of Urfarah’s. The most withdrawn of Father Wolf’s children, she was nonetheless accounted as the finest hunter among the Firstborn. Her children praise her with every silent kill, with every carefully laid trap, and with every glimpse of the hunter that drives the prey to the killing ground.
Hunters in Darkness in Blackmouth
The Meninna are few and scattered in Blackmouth, with most of them in the area preferring to avoid the ever-changing threats of the broken city for the known dangers of the woods of New England. Those that remain have found their own interpretations of mus-rah to protect.
Notable members of the tribe who have appeared in chronicles set in Blackmouth include:
- Conall Stonetalker, Keeper of the Caern of the Shadowed Sky is a venerable old Meninna Ithaeur who claims the entire bawn of his caern as his mus-rah though tempers his fervour with wisdom. Only a few people go missing in Blackhurst each year, those foolish or impertinent enough to ignore the rumours and resonances that protect the old caern.
- Morrigan Rises-Above-Demons, alpha of the Wardens of the Gates of Silence, who works to carve the worst from the city that the sacred places might grow.
- Old Man Autumn, venerable old lone wolf whose travels across North America teaching young Uratha the proper respect for the spirit wilds also serve to patrol all the sacred places that lie forgotten.
- Rojas Voice-of-the-Unspoken, alpha of The Unbroken, who treats the backstreets and the Veil itself as parts of his mus-rah.