Once a proud and cunning guild of shapeshifters that dwelt within the city of Spinesreach, the Atabahi Rout fell to a sickening madness in 417 MA that left little of their guild to the waking world's cruelties. Forced to roam the world now in disparate throngs and packs, the shapeshifters of both the Atabahi and Bahkatu found themselves to be a dying breed with madness lurking in the corners of their mind.