The Renders were kept as living engines of destruction. They may have been used as shock troops in a besieging army, charged with ripping open the gates and tearing down the enemy’s towers. They may have been
woodsmen without axes, quarry-workers reliant on their talons rather than chisel and mattock.
The Render’s gift is the Sundering Talons: when damaging an object with his bare hands, the Render may ignore up to three points of Durability. His claws count as a tool created to bypass Durability (see the World of Darkness Rulebook, p. 138).