• Beast Tongue: beast-men can communicate with animals, magical and mundane, even while in a mortal Seeming. Not all animals are willing or scintillating conversationalists, however. -- All beast-men gain a free level of Animal Ken.
• Animal Nature: Beast-men enjoy the abilities of the animal to which they are most closely related, and thus may have an appropriate Ability for free, as well as other perks (flight, night vision, etc., depending on animal affinity). Beast-men gain two free Attribute traits appropriate to their animal nature (which may go above the limit, but are not available in human Seeming) and all possess natural weaponry (claws, fangs, hooves, horns, etc.) that, at the cost of one Mana trait per combat, can cause aggravated damage.

- Frailties:

• Maenad's Madness: In certain circumstances, especially when driven by fear, anger, or hunger, the beast-man may fall into an inhuman rage, unable to tell friend from foe (although even in this state they will not attack another of their kind unless provoked). Use Vampire frenzy rules.-- All beast-men must take additional Bestial and Violent traits (one each).
• Wild Hunger: Each beast-man has an unusual dietery habit, often (but not always) related to his Animal Nature. The beast-men must eat a particular unprepared food once per week (e.g., freshly caught fish, raw carrion, rainwater, etc.).He can eat other foods as well, but if he doesn't get his weekly "fix" he loses one Physical trait per day after the first full week and must spend a Willpower trait to avoid eating the first source with which he comes into contact. When all Physical traits have been lost, the beast-men begins to lose (Lethal) health levels, and will do whatever it takes to get what he needs.

- Immunity: Beast-men gain a free retest in all challenges related to resisting attempts at making them behave in a civilized fashion.

- Bans: Any two of player choice, especially those related to avoiding civilization (or otherwise appropriate for the character's Animal Nature).

- Weakness: Cold Iron.

- Binding: Beast-men may become entranced by music, dancing until exhaustion or lulled to sleep depending on the tune. The musician, who must be a mortal, must first defeat the fairy in a Social "staking" challenge using the Performance Ability.

- Regaining Mana: Harvesting, Raiding, Feeding (Conspicuous Consumption).

- Preferred Disciplines: Animalism, Celerity, Protean OR Thaumaturgy (The Green Path, Path of Conjuring, Spirit Manipulation).

- Origin: It is entirely possible that some beast-men eked out an existence in the wilderness on earth during the Separation of Realms, but it is highly unlikely that any of them that remembered their true selves would have had much contact with humans, except perhaps as prey. Beast-men of Earthly Origin tend to have access to wild Nodes and Sancta and have Allies among nature-oriented fae (perhaps even of the Seelie Court), but otherwise should generally observe the Background and Ability restrictions of Otherworldly fairies.

- Appearance:Beast-men have features of a sort of animal, often a predator or particularly aggressive herbivore (e.g., a bull), varying from one to another (sometimes the lower body, like a satyr; sometimes the head), and will have other animalistic features, although rarely of a sort that would be mistaken for a pooka (cuteness does not enter into it). Seeming will be required to pass as human, although most would rather not try.

- Special: Protean Add-On: Polymorph Other (Prerequisite: Protean 3. Cost: As Basic Protean power, but does not count as a "dot" in Protean): The beast-man may transform other mortals or immortals using any Protean power he knows. Targets must be touched; unwilling ones will require a Physical challenge. Supernatural creatures may retest with Willpower.

^*Working name; anyone have a better idea? A fuath is, I find, "actually" a malevolent water spirit.

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