Tzuumfin
Silver Wolf, the Ivory Claws’ totem wolf, is obsessed with purity. He will not accept a pledge of service and brotherhood from any werewolf who has served “Luna’s weaklings.” Indeed, the Ivory Claws use blood magic of their own to discern a werewolf’s lineage. If the recruit descends from the Forsaken, rather than a Pure werewolf, she is not permitted to join the Ivory Claws. Only the “purest of the pure” are granted Silver Wolf’s Gifts of blood absolution. Some werewolves abandon the Forsaken for the Pure for their own reasons, breaking the Oath and being stripped of Luna’s blessing, but those renegades never join the Ivory Claws.
Where the Fire-Touched rage with passion and fanaticism, the Ivory Claws are almost cold in their fury. They seem to possess the greatest foresight among the Pure and are frequently the ones who make the farthest-reaching plans. They are the Pure most prone to maintain some semblance of a human life, though the humans who fall under their power are said to endure dire fates. Young Forsaken sometimes wonder if the Ivory Claws might not be able to be reasoned with, perhaps even encouraged to strike a peace agreement, but their hopes are all too easily clawed to ribbons. The Ivory Claws’ hatred of the Forsaken isn’t rabid like that of the Fire-Touched or savage like that of the Predator Kings, but it’s no less intense.
Only those with strong bloodlines rise to positions of power and influence among the Tzuumfin. Power passes hereditary among them, rather than being based on merit through challenges, as it is with the Forsaken.
