Artwork by: Mark Fielding

How the Get of Fenris say ‘hello.’

(for the curious: in their WtA incarnations, Nina's w/ the Glass Walkers, Monica's w/ the Furies)

THE WEREWOLF QUESTION

Hi guys as y’all can see I’m a huge fan of the world of darkness (specifically the old world of darkness) and as I delve deeper and deeper into my 20 gigabytes of WOD PDFs I notice more and more outdated and outright offensive things that just scream “I was made in the 90s and parachute wrote my ass off”

Parachute writing is a bitch (which is why you always consult others that are more well educated in the culture than you)

But that is besides the point, my first question regards a very controversial topic of Werewolf The Apocalypse, and that is the Uktena and the W*ndigo. (Primarily the latter as I want to focus on the name, from now on I will refer to this tribe as “Younger Brother”).

At first I was thinking that these names were to subvert the expectations, like the Get of Fenris of course referencing to Fenrir, a top notch dickhead in Norse mythos, (which is a lot considering most gods barring a couple are top notch dickheads… looking at you Odin.). But instead they are these strange protectors of the earth, while culturally they are known as the killer of odin, in reality they are the rivals of the evil odin (whom is possibly a vampire) that killed their tribe members, whilst also being a tribe that is adamant in preventing the apocalypse and fighting jormungandr (the wyrm) as much as they can.

(Small rant as I quickly educate myself why the fuck do they have a sub-tribe called the glorious fist of Wotan?!?!? DONT THEY HATE ODIN? ISNT WOTAN JUST THE DISAMBIGUATION OF THE WORD ODIN THAT WAS USED IN WAGNERS RING??? ? Ok. Yeah I’m gonna smash a table into pieces and eat the wood chips)

But now that I educate myself on the Younger Brother tribe in the WOD wiki, there doesn’t seem to be any subversion of expectations, its just a name some guy plastered on really quickly and it just ended up sticking because others thought it was cool. And if I’m being genuinely honest, a tribe of world protecting werewolves should not be named after such a thing.

There have been a good couple of posts I’ve seen that refer to this Younger Brother tribe and it’s controversy, but I have never seen one that offered a proper name for this misnamed Garou tribe. What do you all think? I’ve been planning on utilizing Garou into my world because I fucking love werewolves and I would love feedback on how to properly name this Garou tribe in a way that respects indigenous culture.

I feel like I will have a thread of posts like this because I want to depict W:TA 2e in a more respectful light (removing all the controversial and outright stupid gunk) whilst also helping all 5 of my mutuals depict them as well :). If you have gotten this far to read my crazy rambling, thank you so much I love u.

Art of my pc for a Wyld West game set in the 1890s I'm currently in every other week- my Get of Fenris Galliard named Ethel Paige Harlow, fancy proper Kentucky Derby style woman, who loves to murder in the name of Fenris and Gaia! Obnoxious and often disliked, judgmental, unsympathetic.

three ref sheets for some of my Werewolf: The Apocalypse girls

Siobhan has a fun backstory: she was born in a religious hellhole approximating the FLDS (or, you know, any fucked up religious cult), and this is what made the Black Furies distrust her when she was saved. They didn't treat her well, the daughter of a corrupted man from a Black Fury who turned from Gaia. Of course, this left her open for corruption, and led to her inevitable fall when a stranger gave her a shoulder to lean on and treated her kindly. Shield-against-winter is the Guardian of a sept in Yellowstone, which shares its territory with a Gangrel Elder who was around before even the Donner Party was in the area. Normally Garou and Vampires don't get along, but the Gangrel Elder is so old she's a force of nature in her own right, and has been known by the wolves for generations upon generations. The Vampire has actively helped defeat the Wyrm, and so she is tolerated, because she is understood as an ally. (I think that outright saying all vampires are Wyrm-beings was a misstep narratively, especially with what some of the Paths entail. In my house rules, there are a handful of Paths/Roads that will change the Triatic Alignment of a vampire, leaving them more Wyld or Weaver aligned from time to time. This is rare, but possible, and opinions on it vary from tribe to tribe and sept to sept. The Red Talons of Yellowstone even being amenable to a vampire is intended to be a massive story hook for players. My WoD at my table tends to operate on a "werewolf-centric" kind of axis, where werewolf is considered base canon, and I mess with the other splats to make them fit.) Knifeteller Kali fucking owns. She drives fast, sings songs of glory, and talks a lot of shit. She's one of two Get of Fenris in her pack -- the other is the pack Ragabash, lmfao. Her parents are both academics, and their family line had been lost, so Knifeteller Kali surprised the hell out of everyone when she hit her first change. She expects to die in battle one day, and once her hammer draws blood it enables her to fight with a raised Rage.

art and characters by me @cidsin

When inspiration hits you... .Werewolf the Apocalypse is greeting! With a time where the Gurahl (werebears) were easier to find.

Idea here? Little werewolf girl Elfi looses her family (Get of Fenris) in the new world and ends up in Enapay’s hands. Who raises her to a fine werewolf that respects the Gurahls rules and lifes under those instead of her family. 

Happily every after

Everyone wanting Purple Hawke carnally through sheer magnetism is all well and good, but I personally like the idea of Blue Hawke showing people the first bit of kindness and respect they’ve gotten in years and can’t help fall in love with them.

some Dragon Age II scribbles

i love when game companions don't have a positive relationship and they aren't 'found family' (whatever that term means nowadays). to me it feels like it really emphasises the idea of this being a group of characters gathered together by the protagonist for a common goal, and therefore have clashing ideologies, and it makes everything more natural, from big game moments to companion banter, to have them argue or act awkward and stilted with each other because that's how people are

I am still quite fond of Sandra’s WtA design.

Some crappy doodles of Flowey respectfully cheering me on during my statistics lecture-

Posting older art- my Wyld West Get of Fenris

What do you think of W5?

I'm... very torn.

See, heart of the forest? Which uses w5 -- or what w5 WAS, back then -- is excellent. Retaliation looks amazing and I've backed it for a reason, you know?

But theres a lot of rumor about stuff that Justin Achilli has said that has me worried.

I think it's weird that they changed the Pure tribes, but then named one Ghost Council, which is... I mean, its pretty similar to some of the native stereotypes that were used in 1e Werewolf. I do like the name Galestalkers though.

I honestly think that Achilli may have fucked the whole thing. He's notorious for only wanting the game to be played one way and while he's a good writer, like... if he directs a project it BETTER support his vision. He also has been vocal about not being a werewolf fan.

Also while I think its stupid the Stargazers and Get are entirely removed as player options I do think that the reason for the get is like. In character. They got so fed up they said fuck it, we're going to do it ourselves. But on a more extreme scale.

Tldr is I hope W5 is good. Heart of the Forest is amazing. Retaliation is fun. But w5 has been handled by a lot of people and now Achilli heads it. Which. Makes me nervous.

I’ve been dreaming of this pose since last sunday