Ronin

Outcasts, willing or unwilling, the Ronin are those Garou who are no longer part of the Thirteen Tribes, nor have they embraced the ways of the Wyrm. Some are iconoclasts, those who cannot handle the strict, often stifling, tribal culture. Others are criminals, banished by the Tribes for reasons which vary from the political to the truly heinous. A few are still quite noble, having turned their backs on their tribe, sept, and packmates until they have fulfilled some great quest. Almost without exception, they are painfully lonely, having no others to call family, their Garou nature as pack-beings totally violated by their status. Recently, however, their numbers have started to increase greatly, as more and more Garou seek a new way to cope with a world totally at odds with their traditions. They even have begun to form packs, which they call Prides, but the other Garou call Shames.