All werewolves are hunters, but the Rahu is a Warrior. Where other auspices are experts in the best ways to conduct the hunt, the Rahu is the expert on ending it. She charges into battle, weapons or fangs at the ready, and does not retreat until either she or the quarry is dead. If her pack has done its job, the quarry is wounded, terrified, harried, and ready to die. If not… then the Rahu has a harder fight ahead of her. She does not shy from the fight, even so.

Rahu werewolves do not fight for the sheer glory of battle; they leave that to their Cahalith cousins. A full-moon werewolf fights because it is right to do so. She fights because she is a Warrior, and that simple, almost tautological truth is sufficient to grant her reserves of Rage that other Uratha can only wish for. The Rahu seeks Purity, because Purity is good and proper.

That isn’t to say that every Rahu is a moral paragon. Rahu can be devious, underhanded, and tactically vicious, but the end result is a fight, not just death. The full-moon wants to meet her foe on the field of battle, even if the battlefield is rigged to burn or explode. Unlike the Irraka, who would prefer to kill his prey before the prey knows what is happening, the Rahu wants the prey to know that it is dying and why.

Rahu know the Oath of the Moon, sometimes instinctively. They can’t always recite all of its tenets, but they know that the high respect the low and low honor the high. They understand that a battle has a simple, life-or-death purity, and they are proud to be part of it. Indeed, they never really leave it. The Rahu frames every interaction in terms of conflict. This can make talking with a Rahu a trying experience; she tries to “win” conversations rather than coming to consensus. Friendly physical games often become painful as the full-moon brings her full skill to bear. Insults, meant in jest or not, come back to the speaker with renewed venom. The Rahu will not be bested except by a worthy opponent.

Some Rahu coordinate fights, instructing their packmates in the best ways to use Gifts, martial prowess, and experience in a battle. Others simply fall into Kuruth and tell everyone else to stay out of their way. This kind of reliance on brute force and anger can lead to disaster if the Rahu doesn’t learn, but Rahu, unfortunately, are very difficult to teach. They are stubborn and headstrong by nature, and feel that the only kind of wisdom worth having is wisdom won in hardship. Other werewolves, in reference to Rahu, sometimes say “nu muth, nu zu-tha” (“no blood, no lesson”). If a piece of knowledge or an advantage didn’t require some kind of fight, the Rahu finds it suspicious. This also makes the full-moon wary of gifts (even the Gifts of the spirits), if she didn’t have to best the giver in some way.