First Tongue

The First Tongue or Uremehir is the language of the Hisil, which can be spoken and understood by all spirits sapient enough to comprehend speech. Uratha gain an instinctive partial understanding of the First Tongue after their First Change which they can quickly develop into full fluency, though they lack the anatomy to fully verbalise the First Tongue in any form except gauru and must use a bastardised dialect more suited to their mostly-human larynx. Human mystics and occultists can learn the First Tongue with considerable effort but can never be truely fluency without magical assistance.

Glossary of First Tongue Terms

H

• Hisil: The Shadow, the animistic and eternally predatory otherworld that is home to spirits.

K

• Kuruth: The Death Rage. The white-hot fury and predatory instincts that burn in the heart of every Uratha, unleashed on the world when they are provoked beyond the bounds of self-control.

M

• Magath: An unnatural hybrid spirit, often created by a spirit consuming another spirit or large quantites of essence that are incompatible with its nature. They are singular entities, no longer part of any umia and maddened by the clash of conficting essences within one being.
• Meninna: Lit. the crowned hunters. The Hunters in Darkness, one of the Uratha Tribes of the Moon.
• Mus-rah: Lit. holy killing ground. A term used by Hunters in Darkness for the territory they hold sacred under their tribal oath.

N

• Nuzusul: A werewolf before their First Change, specifically during the chaotic weeks that immediately proceeds the Change.

U

• Umia: Also called a choir. A taxonomic category of spirits, identified by their nature. Depending on the spirits involved, an umia may be “weather spirits,” “tree spirits,” or “emotion spirits.”
• Uragarum: Also called wolf-blooded or kinfolk. human who has kinship to werewolves, either through blood descent or contamination by experiencing the Lunacy. Some wolf-blooded, especially those caused by the Lunacy, may manifest minor supernatural traits, aggression or other shadows of their uratha blood, but just as many show no outer sign of their heritage beyond an immunity to the Lunacy.
• Uratha: Werewolves, the half-flesh, half-spirit children of Father Wolf and Mother Moon.
• Urfarah: Father Wolf, the legendary progenitor spirit-god of the Uratha.