Started: 03/28/2002 Updated: 04/02/2002

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The Requisite Disclaimer
Werewolf: The Apocalypse isn't an occult handbook or spiritual reference work. It's a game. A work of fiction. If there were actul werewolves in the real world, we're sure everyone would have heard about them by now. Thank you. Enjoy.

"The woods surrounding the Drak Pack Headquarters are home to several tribes of werewolves. Some are friendly to humans. Others are not. Regardless of their feelings for humans, members of these tribes guard the forests around the mansion. Nothing evil can get by them.

"I am Gin Tsulsi --Silver Moon-- of the Silver Fangs tribe, and Jo Ann's werewolf avatar. I was created from the Werewolf: The Apocalypse Free Introductory Kit, published by White Wolf and availible from most hobby/book/comicbook stores. Anywhere role-playing games are sold. Jo Ann plans to get the full version, and more detail will be added to me --and this page-- then. For now, welcome to the Forest of the Werewolves."

Silver Moon is a female Silver Fang warrior. When she greets visitors, she is in Homid --or human-- form. She is pale, with silvery hair, and is armed with a sword, dagger, and bow and arrows. If threatened, she will change into Crinos form, the half-wolf, half-human form that is what others think of as "werewolf". In this, as well as in Lupus --or wolf-- form, she has silvery fur.

Like Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse is a storytelling game. The Garou --the werewolf nation-- has a different view of the world than the vampires, and each group thinks the worst of the other. The Kindred think the Garou are out to destroy civilization, while the Garou believe that the Kindred are part of the evil forces they call "Wyrm".

History of the Garou

In the beginning, or it's said, there was Gaia. And Gaia was the world, and the world was Gaia. But into this Garden of Eden there entered a serpent --the Wyrm. Nobody knows for sure what made the Wyrm, once a great force of balance, into the force of corruption it is now. But now the Wyrm was maddened, sick like a rabid dog. It sank its poison fangs into Gaia, and the Mother screamed.

The Wyrm was the greatest enemy Gaia had ever seen. It birthed monsters, spirits of evil and the like. It spawned legions of foul creatures that raced forth to conquer.

Gaia needed a champion.

So she looked to her children, all the creatures of the land. None were strong enough to fight the Wyrm on their own. But one of her children, humanity, was clever --they had learned to use weapons and make tools and speak in language. And another of her children, wolves, were great hunters who acted as if of one mind.

So Gaia took the strongest and wisest of the humans and the fastest and fiercest wolves, and she bound them together into a new race. She made herself a race of champions, creatures that could ignore pain and rend trees and run swiftly on four legs.

Thus were born the Garou.

There are three Breeds of werewolves. Breeds are usually in lower case:

Breed	Description
Homid	Human born/raised Werewolves.
Metis	Werewolf born of a mating between Garou and Garou, which is forbidden. Stuck in Crinos form and deformed in mind and/or body.
Lupus	Wolf born/raised Werewolves.

The phases of the moon play an important part of a Garou's life, especially at birth. When a werewolf was born often determines special traits. The phases are called Auspices.

Auspice	Moon Phase	Wolf Characteristic	Special Trait
Ragabash	The New Moon	The Trickster	Stealth
Theurage	The Crescent Moon	The Mystic	In tune with the Spirit World
Pholodox	The Half Moon	Judge/Lawgiver	Judgement
Galliard	The Gibbous Moon	Moon Dancer	Woodcraft
Ahroun	The Full Moon	The Warrior	Combat Mastery

There are twelve Garou tribes. Each has a Totem that gives the werewolves of each tribe their special powers. In the table below, "Unknown" means the information is unavailable at this time. "Yes-No" means I'm not sure.

Tribe	Nickname/Type	Totem	Power	Coat color	Human Friendly?
Black Furies	Female Werewolves	Pegasus	Sense Wyrm	Black	Yes (to females, at least)
Bone Gnawers	Scavengers	Rat	Wretched Refuse (Go unnoticed)	Unknown	Yes-No
Children of Gaia	Peaceful Werewolves	Unicorn	Healing Touch	Unknown	Yes
Fianna	Loremasters	Stag	Iron Stomach	Russet/Red	Yes
Get of Fenris	Viking Werewolves	Fenris, the wolf spirit	Immune to pain	Gray	Yes-No
Glass Walkers	City Werewolves	Cockroach	Mechanical Mastery	Unknown	Yes
Red Talons	Human-haters	Griffin	Matchless trackers	Russet/Red	No
Shadow Lords	Unknown	Grandfather Thunder	Flawsight	Black	No
Silent Stalkers	Egyptian Werewolves	Owl	Speed of thought	Unknown	Yes
Silver Fangs	Werewolf Nobility	Falcon	Silver Flame	White or Silver	Yes
Uktena	Indian Werewolves	Water-Spirit (cougar, snake, & snake)	Sixth Sense	Unknown	Yes-No
Wendigo	Indian Werewolves II	Winter-Spirit	Windmaster	Gray	Yes-No

Lost Tribes:

Tribe	Nickname/Type	Totem	Power	Coat color	Human Friendly?
White Howlers	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	White	Yes-No, but I presume Yes. See below, under Enemies, for the fate of the White Howlers.

The Enemies:

Enemy	Description
The Wyrm	Symbol of evil and decay. The cause of much evil and descruction.
Banes	Evil Spirits. Found only in Umbra, the spirit world.
Fomor (pl: Fomori)	Humans possessed by a Bane. Mutated & deformed.
Pentex	Multi-product producing company own by reprecentatives of the Wyrm.
The Black Spiral Dancers	Fallen tribe of werewolves, formally the White Howlers. Now serves the Wyrm

Werewolf Fanfiction. Some fanfics using the Werewolf: The Apocalypse rules. May be rated either PG or PG-13.

Date	Title	Author	Brief Summory, with Rating.

The Litany: Laws of the Garou.
Werewolf Glossery: A glossery of werewolf terms.

Links:
Werewolf the Apocalypse

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