these creatures were a failed experiment from Pentex and accidentally released into the wild and
while they do still like to fight and eat Pentax employees that does not make them a friend of
the guru today we're talking about the Anarana they're werefrogs hello everyone welcome to the
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check that out link is in the description why are they called Anarana as opposed to wear frogs well
that's probably in the name because let's face it where frog just really isn't that scary they
were a breed that was created from project lycan and they have been deemed a failure from a Pentex
perspective fun fact the Anarana are actually a second attempt at a changing breed that didn't
really work out even the second time the Anarana actually have three forms that they can take
we'll talk about those later but the book of the worm here simply says that they are prone to low
intelligence and that they're for the most part visually unappealing if you want to stay canon
in your game totally fine i have some suggestions at the end of the video on some alternatives that
you could use for the Anarana as you may or may not be familiar Neurodynamic laboratories was
in the process of creating some changing breeds war wolves the Samsa are among some of the ones
that they created so are the Anarana they were actually the creation of a mixture of technologies
that were used for the war wolves and also for a Fomori that Pentex ended up creating or rather
NDL their subsidiary of Pentex this Fomori was called freak feet and it was a first attempt at
what is now known as the Anarana NDL had decided to take everything that they'd learned about
the war wolves and their experiments with the Fomori and put it all together into what would
be a successful or what they hoped would be a successful test and it was code named Anarana the
Anarana were entirely uncontrollable as were most of the mockery breeds that Pentex experimented
with but the Anarana were particularly special in how they were not able to be controlled
they were very resistant and very resilient against hypnosis against any mystical input
and not to mention any bane conditioning that they did the bane would never stay in the body and some
of the first test subjects for the Anarana were sent off the coast of new England to investigate
a Rokea problem that they had unfortunately this group that went out to explore they never came
back on paper and the official Pentex records it lists the Anarana as critical to shoring up their
marine presence the weaknesses that they had against the Rokea and the Anarana could also be
sent into the sewers to flush out different packs of Bone Gnawers they also wanted them to patrol
polluted lakes rivers around Pentex facilities and just keep things private privately the board of
directors believe that the group who was working on the freak feet Formori wanted to get a second
shot at making their creation work spoiler alert the freak feat Fomori didn't turn out very well
and this was a project that was actually happening back in the 1970s so this team who worked on that
specific Fomori the freak feat they got themselves reassigned from project iliad to project lycaon
bad news for NDL though because they failed again even though the Anarana was a screw-up
they still thrived they broke out and got into the wild and this is where they have begun to succeed
they do typically tend to stay around Pentex facilities largely because there's pollution
around Pentex facilities and they like to be in the pollution and when there isn't much to eat
when you have a remote facility the personnel can be pretty tasty now while they do hang out in the
polluted waters near the factories and they do eat Pentex employees who work at these factories this
doesn't make them a friend of the guru guru don't have many friends the anarana will attack anyone
who tries to purify the waters that they reside in they need them to be polluted the Anarana have
come across the bail fire sharks as well and they have a bit of an understanding and they kind of
just leave each other alone now the Anarana do not have a huge presence they haven't really spread
out across the country or even the world for that matter but you will find the vast majority of them
along the east coast reproduction for a Anarana is very slow and oftentimes unsuccessful Anarana
do not have any kinfolk to speak of because they were created and they can't really live a normal
life away from the polluted waters they're kind of like the Rokea in that sense that they need to
be buy polluted water to get their recharge from it now while the Anarana can breed and they do
breed successfully most cases the altered jeans and the tainted magic that was used to make them
produces something that's just gross doesn't really work out in the end
but in the rare instances where it does that child or that creation is almost always an Anarana now
as i mentioned the freak feat was the first attempt at an Anarana however they were going
for something not fully shapeshifter but they were going more for a Fomori it was a designer Fomori
it didn't work out but but it was a design for more nonetheless it was initially created by a
holding company of Megadon this was called Panacea I don't care how you pronounce it that's how I'm
pronouncing it the goal for the Freak Feet Fomori try to say that five times fast the goal for
the freak feat Fomori was actually to have them thrive in the urban areas self-replicate and flush
out some of the bone gnawers so the goals really didn't change from 1970 till now there was however
a few attacks on the panacea laboratory and some of the freak feet Fomori got out into
the wild and now they were beyond the control of Pentex and these ones just absolutely proliferated
they're they're a real problem when the team who created the freak feat was finally able to get a
second shot and give their attempt at the Anarana there was a few things that they did differently
they wanted to make them a shape-changer so that was a new addition they also wanted them
to have a spiritual connection so the Anarana can actually step sideways but they can only
do this in polluted waters they can also regenerate in the same way that a guru does
and they don't have that pesky silver damage hurts me thing and they're unaffected by the delirium
the Anarana like most of the mockery breeds they are not covered in a spiritual pact
many of the spirits that are in the umbra or on the other side they don't acknowledge the
mockery breeds they don't talk to the mockery breeds and banes in some cases they even look
down on the mockery breeds this includes the Anarana so they will not have any spiritual gifts
because they just don't have a spirit who has decided to bestow any knowledge or spiritual
gifts upon them but this does not mean that an Anarana is defenseless or useless they do have
some very special powers that are fomori-like in various forms the Anarana actually have three
forms that they can take and we're going to talk about them now in their human form they are weird
they are unsettling their eyes are very far apart they are very frog like their other form is called
dagen and this is kind of a freakish looking form because now they fully look like a frog
except it's giant and tall and its limbs are long and they're kind of rubbery looking and
it's green and white and it's shimmery it's what is this the book of the worm actually
describes this as being absurd and i would agree it also describes them as being terrifying and
if i saw something like this i would also be very terrified so i would agree with that statement as
well the last form that an Anarana can take is something between human and its full warfrog
form if you want to call it that they basically get a little bit taller their arms get a little
bit lankier they still have that weird shimmer that sheen on their bodies all their body hair
disappears take that for what you will so what are my final thoughts on the Anarana and the werefrogs
i think this is a missed opportunity for a race or for a mockery breed and i feel like most of
the mockery breeds have just been off the mark just close i get what they were trying to do they
didn't want to have something that was as powerful as a shapeshifter because then you could just
have a shape-shifter i would spice these guys up in a little bit of a different way
especially if you wanted to have something fun to throw at your players sure you can follow the
canon tropes and use that information if you want to what i might suggest
would be a little bit more fun and give you a little bit more flexibility with the story is
having these Anarana actually be taken in by the fae or rather change the cannon to have them being
adapted with Pentex and the fae discovering that they can mix these elements together
and this will give the frogs a little bit more of a a trickster vibe to them you can still make
them ugly if you wanted to do that i think if you mix them this way they wouldn't have to be
the village idiot who just lives in a swamp there's something to be said for village having
a swamp idiot but it doesn't have to be these guys or it doesn't have to be all of them especially if
we're gonna tweak them a little bit and give them fae energies that could be that could be a lot of
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