Andre’s Reviews > Nagah: the Kings Under the River: A Sourcebook for Werewolf: The Apocalypse > Status Update

So now Vinata is a kind of victim after all? Then why refuse to state her name?
and this old guy here also has unexplained methods to keep an eye out for soon to be nagah, but at least he fits what I expected before: Do something wrong and he will horribly punish you. For such a bunch of idiots as these nagah, that is a necessity to keep existing an functioning.

How did these two keep watch on him to find him immediately after the first change? Most spirits will not help nagah so who was monitoring the guy all this time?

was that woman with the soon to be nagah a vampire or a magician or what is that spirit serpent infecting the men supposed to mean? The text claims human, but then what was that serpent? It dissappeared the moment the nagah killed her. And the stalker later comes across like a serial killer, because I am sure he gave that woman lethal pills.

Using a drum to summon a target to someone is one of the better ideas of this book. but then the flood dust is another dumb idea. and the venom arrow gift might be the dumbest of them all. Why a gift for that?

an infrared vision merit but not gift, and this Mnesis merit pointing to a Mokole connection would at least make sense when you consider that the Nagah might be an offshot of the mokole, because they sure as hell don't come across like a thought out serpentine and water related breed. They come across like something that was pushed into the water connection or who ursurped that role.

why can the nagah walk across water after solidifying it? What use does this have? for the most part the assassin related gifts are at least decent but the snake and water gifts are dumb, a child would have come up with that, the rites later are no smarter either, they aren't even worth remembering.

The whole thing about snakes shedding skin and rejuvination is a mythological thing but snakes are not "often considered to be manifestations of time", not at all. Where did they get some of this stuff? The hydra warrior gift of the next page at least has some mythological truth to it. Albeit the way they introduce snake and water gifts is rather a hodgepodge than anything else.

A gift to double the strike distance of a snake? Why? Just give it spitting venom!! They had venomous vapor after all. It is weird how the book has at once useless stuff like this but then smart stuff like a gift to hide inside the belly of a human. It is similar to the finally history section, I always wondered whether the nagah were intentionally written as such idiots or whether it is just bad writing.

what on earth would controlling the tides be good for? They seem to have including this gift only because nagah allegedly were stated to cause floods and droughts in indian legend, but it has no function here and no prior water related gifts and the turn into a storm has the same problems. the gift to force someone to go into water at least has some assassination purpose. But still, not thought out well.

Growing barbs and breathing poisonous vapor have their uses but wouldn't it be better to give a nagah the gift to spit poison like some cobras can? And sure, making a nagah coldblooded would have some effect for infrared but it would not protect you from heatstroke, unless you are literally emiting coldness. These gifts so far don't seem well thought out.