World Of Darkness Lore: Yeren

There are some changing breeds who were not created by Gaia, they are mockery breeds. They spit in the face of Gaia and her children. Pentex are the ones responsible for these twisted changing breeds. The Yeren are weremonkeys, they are smart, greedy, and a little short sighted.
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Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
1:00 Yeren Origins
1:59 Lycaon And Pentex
2:50 Mockery Breeds And Yeren
4:41 Yeren Drawbacks
6:14 Neuro Dynamic Labs
7:57 Yeren And Big Business
9:15 Yeren Forms And Breeds
11:17 Yeren And The Greed Urge Wyrm
12:19 Relshab
13:16 My Final Thoughts
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[@thelonewolf5238]

First successful mockery breed:War wolves. Created to counter the Garou. They were captured dogs and wolves and they were created through stolen Garou DNA. But because of that they are no more then starving dogs. They are also stupid so they are immune to the Delirium. They can eat any meat but the only meat that can satisfy them is Kinfolk or Garou meat so most live life in near starvation. They also have only lupus and crinos form Samsa: were-cockoroachesFailed attempt to create assasins. They are deranged all of them no matter what breed they are. They also have 2 forms the homid and crinos form. Anurana:were-frogs They were initially created to counter the Rokea but it was a fail and they escaped from their labs they were supposed to be controlled by. And now they live in Wyrm tainted waters close to the pentex factories. They will also try to attack everyone who tries to cleanse their home. They have some kind of understanding with the balesharks. They also have 2 forms homid and crinos form. Kerasi:(funny thing if someone says it in my native language it sounds like cherry) They are were-rhinos that serve as shock troopers in Africa they have fomiri powers and have 3 forms. Glabro which inflicts full delirium Crinos huge humanlike rhino with sharp teeth,4 finger claw and 2 huge horns Rhino form complete normal rhino They are starting to get an independent sense. A sense of freedom. And the Yeren which Nathaniel covered in this video.

[@TheMapleTable]

Thanks for this! I do plan to do all the mockery breeds as well.

[@thelonewolf5238]

@@TheMapleTable also anurana can step sideways but only on Tainted waters and emerge through them. Samsa are deranged and paranoid but if there is a bane that has patience to teach them they may learn. War wolves as i said are idiots so they can't step sideways nor able to learn gifts and are very aggressive. Pentex has tried to keep them away from the dancers but accidents are inevitable. Kerasi i think are unable to step sideways. And Yeren can step sideways only through reflective surfaces.

[@thelonewolf5238]

Also cockroach demands that the Glass walkers won't harm the Samsa he thinks they can be turned to the side of Gaia. But of course he is so Stupid cause they have his appearance and species.

[@natebush8217]

Thank you for clarifying this, for me. Because I found this information on a Fanon wiki, I just assumed all this information was made up by fans. But because these fanon wikis also seem to use canonical lore in tandem with lore that they just made up, it's really hard to tell, especially when you're pretty much a noob to this stuff. :P

[@vxicepickxv]

@Nate Bush I didn't think about using the White Wolf Fandom wiki to get references, because I don't remember reading about these. Now I have page numbers in specific books.

[@tacitus6384]

I had an idea for a Yeren game, in that the player group are all Yeren. However, they were actual scientists/security working on the project, believing that they were creating a type of super-soldier for national defense. The Pentex higher ups were happy with the Yeren but were concerned about their extreme ambition, so they secretly charged that a second generation of Yeren get made, this one that isn't so...voracious and avaricious, with the player characters being the main creators and first 'test subjets' of teh rituals to create this second generation Yeren. It works, and the player characters become wereapes. They aren't as greedy and avaricious as normal Yeren, but they don't have the stink of the wyrm either. They soon catch on that they're now guinie pigs, and they escape, where they're lucky enough to be befriended by some Corax who then vouch for them and introduce them to the local Children of Gaia and Bone Gnawers. From there the group goes on a journey of acceptance with the spirit world, finding a spiritual avatar that will make its pact with them, and they become the first in the newest Gaian changing breed: the were-apes, the craftsman of Gaia. They operate in a troop the way werewolves operate in packs, but they're much more attuned to urban areas, they're master craftsman (of fetishes, green tech etc) and excellent businessmen and of understanding the modern world - and how best to fight Pentex and other wyrm machinations. It's an irony that this tool created by Pentex turns out being a huge ally of Gaia against the wyrm.

[@TheMapleTable]

sounds like a great story lines

[@the_warpwny]

I have been playing Werewolf since revised edition, the one with the claw marks cut out of the cover. I have never heard of the mockery breeds! This was a great video!

[@TheMapleTable]

I feel like these are fairly new additions to the lore but they are cannon as of W20 :D

[@gameon_ct]

I took 3 years of Chinese in college and this is what I learned about the Yeren. I leaned it as "Ren Xiong" which is Pinyin for "人熊" (dude you're making me break out my character dictionary here) and I learned it as "man bear" "人" is basically "man" in the sense of humanity. So the literal translation is again, "man bear". However, my Chinese professor said that many read it as "Man-Monkey" even though 熊 means in literal translation to English "bear". What I remember from that folklore class was that, like us English speakers, stories get passed down for generation and we may call something that's the same idea by a different name i.e. Sasquatch being commonly referred as Big Foot. This is probably more than you care to know, but I always found this creature interesting.

[@TheMapleTable]

Thanks for the lesson, I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to folk lore in other cultures. I do love language though and the nuances of communication.

[@Actalzy]

Interesting side note, project Lycaon was named for a King in ancient Greek myth that tried to trick Zeus into eating stew made from his youngest son. Zeus wasn't fooled and to punish Lycaon, Zeus turned him into a large ravenous wolf who then killed and ate his remaining sons before being exiled into the wilderness. (There are of course variations but that is the basics of it minus the youngest getting brought back plot) Just interesting I thought because of course Pentex would use the story of such a disgusting, prideful and arrogant man turned into a wolf as the name of a project like this.

[@toreadordude9798]

You know I actually really like the Yeren as antagonists. In my games they've become a lot more common in Pentex and have a very volatile relationship with the Black Spiral Dancers (they absolutely despise each other)

[@TheMapleTable]

I liked them as antagonists too. When combined with the BSDs they are a bit of a wild card

[@toreadordude9798]

@@TheMapleTable Well the forces of the Wyrm infight a lot. I had an idea of a Corporate Espionage story about 3 competing companies (One controlled by the forces of the Wyld which the players work for), one controlled by the Weaver and one controlled by the Wyrm (which is a Pentex Subsidiary). The CEO of the Wyrm Company is secretly a Yeren while his chief of security is a Black Spiral Dancer (the BSD hates every minute of it but the higher ups on the Board of Directors demand it just because he is one of the few BSD who will follow orders, albeit he will look for loopholes if he can).

[@LucienTheWitch]

Returning to monke of darkness

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

Fun thing I like to think of is that the Yeren were originally a shifting breed from The Wyrm, but were killed off entirely by Garou in the East. And now... now, they're back. Now, they have found return through the Wyrm and its Spirits, because the Worm Defiler had an idea: to take these once strong Guardians of Gaia's great mountains and nake them her worst nightmare.

[@aaronlirette1336]

I usually watch the Starfinder stuff, but I popped this one on...and I love the beginning. LOL.

[@TheMapleTable]

after I finished recording ... i realized i f*cked up and i wasnt going to re-record it. so i learned how to do that effect to let people know how bad i did lol.

[@thefenrisianssweatshop]

I absolutely love Pentex stuff. The monkey wrench chronicle was pretty good in my eyes. Also I was quite pleased they made it into hunter the redeemer. Will you ever have a look at fonori? Or possible have a retrospective at freak legion?

[@TheMapleTable]

I have covered the fomori a little while ago. I would like to add the freak legion

[@thiagom8478]

Hard to imagine that. Something MORE reliable than a Spiral Dancer.

[@jarlupathingy7260]

With all this talk about being reliable and being able to control, that sounds a lot like Weaver concepts. I wonder if Dancers will start seeing PENTEX as heretics.

[@TheMapleTable]

A Garou could only wish for such a huge fight they didnt start lol

[@devoureroftheworlds4764]

Corrupted creatures that combine the worst qualities of humans in the service of the Wyrm. Exquisitely disgusting. Perhaps the most terrible of the mockery breeds for me. They were vicious and greedy from the very beginning of their path and these traits are characteristic of all of them, without exception, they are pure evil, if the word pure can be applied to evil. Great job as always. We are looking forward to see the next videos about the mockery breeds, I would especially like to hear about the Samsa, perhaps my favorite among them.

[@TheMapleTable]

I'll have to take a read through all of them but i may do them next, i have also been wanting to finish my triat series and cover the wyrm as well.

[@devoureroftheworlds4764]

@@TheMapleTable It would be great to see it. Thanks for the great videos you make for all of us 👍

[@wiwuno]

Hey awesome video love seeing more on the Mockery Breeds. Really deep dives on WtA lore are so hard to find I super appreciate games other than Vampire getting the love they deserve. One correction both the Samsa and the Yeren are actually part of active spirit pacts and can learn spirit Gifts. At this time no Yeren has surpassed Rank 3.

[@TheMapleTable]

Glad you like them!

[@____________838]

I’ve been using the Yeren in my WoD, advancing their reach and power.

[@TheMapleTable]

They do make a good set of bad guys

[@____________838]

@@TheMapleTable In my timeline, the BSD has become further and further divorced from Pentex due to their belief that they won the War of Apocalypse and can thus rest on their laurels and the fact that Pentex has had success in their projects Lycoan and Proteus(from The Debased: Company Dogs fan supplement), so the Yeren have pushed themselves into as many open positions as they can, as they’re wont to do. Recently they’ve gained access to three auspices, roughly correlating to Ragabash, Theurge, and Ahroun; under the tutelage of not only the first true Theurge of their kind, but one of the first of the Simian breed. He and his kind are the result of genetic tampering and are fairly clannish, harboring desires to spread both their virus gifted intelligence and Mockery Breed bloodlines to wild ape populations.

[@cesarvalle4176]

Yo my dude thus was extremely helpful and informative I have played this game in the past and have been trying to get back into it and I actually am a huge DK fan and I wanted to make a yeren character for a while and now with all this information it will be exponential easier thank you and I hope you keep making awesome videos 🦍💪

[@lokisyn2433]

Love this! I found the mockerys via the wiki but couldn't find much else. Can't wait to see the others.

[@TheMapleTable]

I wasnt as well versed in them but i liked what i found.

[@lokisyn2433]

@@TheMapleTable same here just want to know more. I could see a war between the garou and the mockery breeds happening.

[@TheMapleTable]

@@lokisyn2433 the Yeren clash a lot with the Bone Gnawers and Glass Walkers because they all tend to live in urban areas. Yeren would be buying housing districts/slums and the people living there could be a tribe of bone gnawers. The glass walkes would fight them corporately/legally since they also run companies.

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

actually the Pentex Yeren was named after the Cryptid of the same name. The real Yeren exists in World of Darkness as well.

[@TheMapleTable]

Thanks for the clarification

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

@@TheMapleTable Yeah, Bigfoot and similar creatures are actually a kith of evil changelings called Thallain.

[@dubuyajay9964]

Why is Son Wukong...an entity that existed thousands of years before Pentex, in the thumbnail?

[@pitchforksdragon1252]

I love these WoD lore videos

[@TheMapleTable]

Im glad to hear that you are enjoying them. I should have a bunch in my back catalogue if you havent seen them.

[@kiltedcripple]

You mentioned they can take on the aspect of any ape, is this random? Like you could have an orangutan face but gorilla arms, or like "Jim is bonobo themed, Jane is a Gelada." kind of thing?

[@TheMapleTable]

I would run it as they take an entire theme. You can't shift to gorilla then baboon the next. Your species blend is set, but they can come from all types in the monkey family

[@arnoldtabor3767]

Why do I think that the mockery breeds should be able to breed with kinfolk of fera

[@TheMapleTable]

in W5 i would change much about the mockery breeds

[@natebush8217]

First! :D Also, the Yeren are canon? I thought they were made up in fan-fiction. :P

[@TheMapleTable]

There is reference to them is tge book of the wrym W20 which IMO makes them cannon

[@natebush8217]

@@TheMapleTable You're the expert, pal! I trust your judgment! :D

[@TheMapleTable]

@@natebush8217 YES! im not your pal, I'd prefer to be your buddy.

[@____________838]

Hey! I was right about the pronunciation!

[@TheMapleTable]

yea i messed it up right till the end lol

[@lunaruno9920]

oh wow you did it so did you go to the wiki when i mention or did find the source book

[@TheMapleTable]

I used both, the wiki was updated with much of the new material in the w20 book of the wrym. The mockery breeds start on page 167 in that w20 book of the wrym.

[@lunaruno9920]

@@TheMapleTable cool glad i could help if i did that is

[@TheMapleTable]

@@lunaruno9920 give the people what they want i sometimes say :p thanks for the inspiration.

[@lunaruno9920]

@@TheMapleTable that cool to know man

[@thestraymrjay]

Would the presence of abilephet banes cover the smell/presense of a yeren?

[@TheMapleTable]

I could see them being used to create a small mask operation.

[@thestraymrjay]

@@TheMapleTable prolly would need more then a bane or two then to cover up a yerens presence/sent

[@thadeuskray]

Pentex, Yep.... absolutely awesomely benevolent corporation that desires to change the world and make it great again, for the freaking Wyrm *coughs* This bane stew is delicious @~@

[@finnmchugh99]

What 20th Anniversary books are Mockery breeds in?

[@TheMapleTable]

They are in the 20th anniversary edition of book of the wrym. Page 163 i think

[@finnmchugh99]

@@TheMapleTable are they playable races?

[@TheMapleTable]

@@finnmchugh99 i suppose you could play them, it does talk a bit about their abilities, and potential totems. They would not work in a usual werewolf game as they are supposed to be bad guys, although if your storyteller is allowing a redemption arc nothing says you can't.

[@nextgenrebot1076]

Mokole vs Yarren GODZILLA VS KONG BABEEEEE!

[@TheMapleTable]

The mash up we all deserve!

[@nextgenrebot1076]

@@TheMapleTable Making a Mokole of Japanese roots as we speak!

[@thisismyboat]

vegeta mixed with greed from fullmetal

[@dubuyajay9964]

Can Yeren be ghoulified or embraced?

[@TheMapleTable]

also a good question. I would say no since they are already a mockery breed.

[@FacilityD20]

No worries, I botcher every "Fantasy" or "Si-fi" word i come across haha

[@TheMapleTable]

English is hard ... and its the only language I speak....

[@veganrican606]

I always thought that weregorillas or wereapes were cool, too bad they're villains in this lore.

[@Aesirfollower2020]

Wereapes? So superhuman or human squared maybe protect human. In all seriousness they should had made this breed first even though I hate mocky breeds it's idk the word but it's bad.

[@TheMapleTable]

The name does come across a little silly doesn't it

[@Aesirfollower2020]

@@TheMapleTable yeah it does but this mocky breed actually makes sense

[@oremilenkovic2425]

Funny how you acknowledge the mispronounciation in this video but the ones in your previous ones

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

= D

[@TheMapleTable]

Because I see this smiling face twice

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

@@TheMapleTable we is the :)

[@casey9439]

Why does Andrew Tate come to mind when imagining a yeren?

[@Spoeism]

"horrible white boy" tsk tsk tsk.. even as sarcasm we shouldn't normalize this. Just ask other cultures and languages to say "Three" or "Squirrel" Also speaking as Canadian Metis... why are we used for this?