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# Tartar Beast Courts
# The de jure capital of the Tartaria Empire is Turgay, it stretches over the Kingdoms of Cumania, Kimek, and Kipchak. 
# Its default cultures are Cuman, Kimek, Kipchak and Karluk. Many other steppe cultures could be involved like Karluk, Bolghar, Bashkir, Khitan.
# for the Tartar Beast Courts, consider giving at mininum the Duchy of Turgay and expanding east into Saryarka and Bepta. 
# If using Turgay, Anda Jhunakhai 'Vanguard of the West' will need to be relocated.
# Keep in mind the Siberkah may be established in Alatau, Vasyugan Mire and/or Kazaakh.
# Apacia must not be displaced from Sibr
# Vardey for IceStalker Were Polar Bears
# Riverkeeper Were Brown Bears can be anywhere north of Mongolia , for example Tuva or Ob. Perhaps Alatau, Vasyugan Mire.


# African Bagheera may be in Benin.  During the Benin Empire, the leopard was commonly represented on engravings and sculptures and was used to symbolise the power of the king or oba, since the leopard was considered the king of the forest.  In Benin, leopards were kept and paraded as mascots, totems and sacrifices to deities. The Ashanti (Ghana) also used the leopard as a symbol of leadership, and only the king was permitted to have a ceremonial leopard stool. Naturalistic leopard-like depictions appear on the coat of arms of Benin, Malawi, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon, the last of which uses a black panther. Egyptian Goddess Seshat: She is frequently shown dressed in a cheetah- or leopard-hide, a symbol of funerary priests. If not shown with the hide over a dress, the pattern of the dress is that of the spotted feline. Waghoba: Waghoba (Marathi: वाघोबा) is an ancient tiger/leopard deity worshipped by a number of tribes in India for centuries. Depending on the region of India, the deity is either described exclusively as a tiger or a leopard or as a deity that can take both forms. There are several temples for the deity throughout India. Tribes, including the Bhaina, Bharia, Bhatra, Dangis, Gond, Gosain, Kol, Korku, Koshti, Velip, and Warli, are stout worshipers of Waghoba or Bagheshwar. They all bear a deep reverence towards the deity and have held strong beliefs about it for generations. A study[3] in Maharashtra and Goa areas where Waghoba shrines are located revealed that people have remarkable understanding of leopards' biology and behaviour in their area, such as leopard cubs are born once in two years, they stay with their mother, each leopard has its own territory and scent marks its borders, they are nocturnal and they can climb on a tree easily. On the other hand, they also believed that leopard dispels bad omen. Once it tastes human blood, it becomes a man eater and the man eaters are gigantic creatures (even bigger than tigers). These are myths but perhaps are ways in which the people negotiate their space with these large cats. Search Waghoba Temples on google maps. A black panther is the melanistic colour variant of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and the jaguar (Panthera onca). Black panthers of both species have excess black pigments, but their typical rosettes are also present. They have been documented mostly in tropical forests, with black leopards in Kenya, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Java

# Gurahl, Werebears

# Arturus the Bear King, Gurahl, from 500 AD
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Arturus

# Buri-Jaan - an elder Gurahl who instructed Arturus in the ways of the Children of Bear.

# Riverkeeper, so potentially Russian 
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Oleyah_Voice-of-Mourning

# Bill, Norse, carries Horn of Fenris, Disloyal, Lustful, Homid, Gurahl, Depressed, Paranoid 
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Bill_of_the_Bear

# Sarah Childslayer, Gurahl Abomination, Malkavian, Child of Elisha the Mad

# Embraced 850 BCE
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Sarah_Childslayer

# Rronuhn, Generic Werebear Rage card
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Rronuhn


# Ananasi, Werespiders

# Octavia, Portuguese
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Octavia

# Abiele Dumont was an Ananasi. She invented a fylfot (that is, an Ananasi fetish) called the Armoire of Abiele[1] in the 1800s.
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Abiele_Dumont

# One of the oldest and most recognized talents among the Ananasi, this jeweler has been known to be alive since the early 1600s at least
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Tomas_Hogarth

# Corax, Wereravens

# 1002 CE
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Einarr_Flies-Like-Smoke

# 986 CE
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Bjarni_Herjulfson


# Rokea, Weresharks

# Mizuchi, leader of Same-Bito, brought them into the Beast Courts
# Sensei Mizuchi swims Sea's Soul, searching for a way to reunite the Same-Bito and the Rokea before the Great Unmaking occurs.
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Mizuchi


# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Leaps-to-the-Wound


# Mokole

# Legendary astronomer
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Sal-Afsan

# Sobek, the Great Crocodile
# Follower of Set, Abomination, 4th Generation, Methuselah, childe of Set
# form of a massive albino crocodile. 
# He is reputed to be slumbering in a Founding Temple of Faiyum, surrounded by a retinue of ghouled crocodiles. One of these crocodiles is said to be over a thousand years old, and to give oracles from Set's childe to the Abd'al-Sobek.
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Sobek_(Abomination)


# Golonat, Zhong Lung weredragon
# First Spirit Chainer of the Court of Bogabo
# Primary advisor to Bogabo, Learning education
# Patient

# Ratkin, Wererat
# Amrat Antanans, wererat spy, Intrigue education


# Kistune, Werefoxes

# Bai Mianxi, the first Kitsune
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Bai_Mianxi

# Fukutenjin lived in feudal Japan
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Fukutenjin


# Nuwisha, Werecoyotes

# Chung Kuel Star-Breaker, born as Trips-Her-Foes, was a legendary Nuwisha that lived in the times before the Europeans came to the Pure Lands... By her 17th year, she had already been to China and Africa.
# https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Chung_Kuel_Star-Breaker


# Qai'm the Honest!  
