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Realistic or Modern Swallowed By The Moon - Lore

StormWolf

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SWALLOWED BY THE MOON
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Something about you has always been different. You can feel it in your bones, you can feel it in your marrow, and in something even deeper. A call that transcends hearing, a sign that defies sight. Perhaps you know what this means, or perhaps you simply think it a discomfort in your own skin. A discontentment with what and who you are. Perhaps you tried to bury it under work, stuff it down with food, drown it with drink...

But you cannot run from your birthright. You cannot deny our Mothers' cries.

One day, as you went about you daily attempt as living with the Herd, the feeling of unease that has been steadily growing in your core simply cannot be ignored. Your skin grows feverish and sensitive to the touch, your heart begins to race, and the low roar of your own blood in your ears grows to a deafening growl. "What is happening?", you might ask. "Why is it happening to me? Dear God, make it stop!"

That's when you hear it, a voice from within your ephemeral self that you might call your subconscious at first, but it is not your voice that speaks. It is the voice of a mother and a father, a sister and a brother, the whisper of the wind through the trees and the calls of all the beasts in nature.

Not all who wander are lost, young one. Not so long as they hear our Mother. Life among the Herd – among the mundane mortals – is not meant for you. I can feel your anger and fear, though you might deny it or not know its source. Our Mothers, our World, is dying. She is poisoned by corruption of body and spirit. She is scarred by the sins waged upon her flesh. The maw of Oblivion looms over our kind, our very reality, and you are among the Chosen who keep it at bay.

Will you be lost in blissful ignorance? Will you remain prey for that which hungers for our World?

Or will you answer the Call?

But, the most important question of all, my dearest Child...

When will you
RAGE?

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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods. There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is a society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. I love not man the less, but nature more.”





  • "Gather 'round, cubs. There is a tale that old Eyes-of-the-Sun must tell you, the story of our Kind, the oldest and most important story you will ever hear..."



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    Before there was primordial form, before there was Wolf or Man, all existence occupied a single plane. All were as flesh and spirit, and the greatest among them were the Celestines; Lord Helios, Lady Lune, Lady Agartha, and their court of stars. Youngest and most beautiful among them were Lune and Agarta, destined for great things, for terrible things. Lune could never stray far from her celestial sister, and when the first great beauty of nature appeared, Lune wept with joy and envy, for she could have no sapphire seas, no emerald forests, nor beasts to call her children.

    Still, she as happy for Sister Agartha, basking her with the glow of her smile.

    Drawn by that glow, hitherto came Father Wolf, a primordial and wild spirit from the depths of the Wyldes - the Spirit Domain. He was beautiful and graceful as he as dangerous and ferocious. While Lady Agartha slumbered, it was Lady Lune who say him first, and was smitten. Father Wolf was hungry and alone, and weary from his travels, so Lady Lune took pity on him. Taking the form of a kindred creature of purest silver starlight, Lune guided Father Wolf to the fertile lands beneath the boughs of one of the World Trees.

    The sky was dark for that night, as the Moon found something new. She found love.

    When Lord Helios awoke in the morning, he was furious! Wherefore had Lady Lune gone?! Fearing the blazing temper of Lord Helios, Lady Lune left Father Wolf as he slumbered with a final kiss upon his brow. Lady Agartha, whom had awoken with Lord Helios' fearsome blunder, bid her sister hide behind her until night fell, and Helios fell asleep once more. It was in this time that Lady Agartha, tending her Sacred Glens, found Father Wolf sleeping beneath the boughs of her World-Oaks, and she too was smitten.

    As the cycles passed, Lune and Agartha grew gravid with evidence of their liaison, bearing the brunt of Lord Helios' wrath, and fostering resentment for each other. Each gave birth to three beings of great power, but Lady Lune, being closer to Lord Helios, was forbidden to return to her celestial sister, denied the chance to show her children to their Father. Denied the chance to even raise them, for she could not foster life like her sister could. So, from afar, she had no choice but to watch as Agartha and Father Wolf frolicked in their glen with their young, and in jealousy and shame, Lune turned away from them.

    There was a time when Lady Lune's own children never knew her face, for the pain of distance was too great to bear. In seeing her loved ones so close, but unable to touch them or speak to them, it filled Lady Lune with such unbridled Rage that even the unblinking stars trembled.

    Father Wolf felt this Rage as it stormed through the air. He had silently wondered where the beautiful she-wolf had gone, and in the absence of the Moon, he knew. So he gathered his children, those sired with Lady Lune and Lady Agartha, and their Children's Children, and scaled the highest mountain. Atop its crest, Father Wolf lead them in a Song for their Celestial Mother. The First Howl, and how haunting and beautiful it was.

    Lady Lune heard such a mournful chorus and could not keep herself away, and so she turned her face back to her sister and her beloveds, and she smiled down on them with a Mother's Love.

    You can see her now, though, with every rotation, turning to cast her gaze once again upon us - her Children and her sister's Children - to ensure we are well, and to bask our burning spirits in her radiance.

    Forget not that we are all Children of Father Wolf, but we are also children of Mother Moon and Mother Earth. It is through them that we are connected to the Spiritual and Material, and as our Father did before us, we are sworn to protect our Mothers both, from this day to the end of days.​









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The Wolf and the Pack
"There is a society where none intrudes..."


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    As individuals, Werewolves are an extremely independent, passionate, and typically hard-headed bunch. They typically don't know when to quit or back down, and will keep pushing forward, always. As an individual, a Werewolf is as varied as any person would be. Factors of upbringing, belief, life-path, and a swathe of other factors will have a heavy hand in a Werewolf's behavior and character. There is no single tribal or cultural catch-all, because before they took on the Warrior-Skin, they were also people.

    Humans and wolves are both social creatures, something that is elevated as a werewolf. Among humans and wolves, you will be hard-pressed to find those who won't shirk away from you on instinct, as their subconscious brain senses the apex predator in their midst. Because of that aspect of the Curse, Werewolves tend to be insular. You can only love and respect someone as dangerous as you are, you can only get to know people as dangerous as yourself.

 
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    Stragoi, Lamia, Leech, Blood-sucker. Vampyr.

    A contagion that hungers, the Vampyr have been a menace ever since there was the Herd. Civilization is their experiment in domestication, keeping their food supply well-fed, docile, and prepackaged. Perhaps you think it unfair, but would you openly invite vermin into your home and garden for it to spread its pestilence? I thought not.

    The Vampires are a peculiar sort, sporting one of the greatest varieties of terrestrial prey than any other as their hunger elevates their human condition while they live, and becoming completely devoid of humanity once they die.

    When an individual is first Turned by the Embrace of Vampire, they go through a series of changes on a much smaller level than one of our True-Born might. The Turn takes a full twenty-four hours after the sire shares their blood with their would-be progeny. After which, they become a Living Vampire, or a Scion. They function much as they would normally, going about their day-to-day if they so wished, but their Sire is always in their head.

    A Scion, while light sensitive, is not burned by the sun or succumbed to the same banes of the Undead Vampire. A Scion can even eat and drink mortal food, even sire biological children of their own, but there will never be anything more fulfilling than slaking their blood lust. The person the Scion was before the Turn is dialed up to eleven as they feel the supernatural strength and grace that comes with Vampirism. So long as they stay fed, aging slows to a crawl.

    All this changes when the Vampire dies. Dying is not permanent, unless the heart or head are removed, the body is burned or slurred into mulch, or other such obliteration occurs. The Vampire will return as an Undead Vampire. Aging truly ceases, and their power magnifies by a grotesque magnitude, capable to truly miraculous feats. Once undead, a vampire cannot go into the sun. Fire is anathema as silver is to werewolves. Neither food, nor drink, nor drug can sustain them. Only the blood can. There is no joy unless it is through power, nor is there sorrow or fear but for the light of the sun. Only burning and beheading can assure the True Death.

    To us, their venom and blood is a toxin, true to the snakes that they are. A werewolf cannot go through the Turn, but they can become addicted to the opiate rush of vampire venom and can have their minds muddled by the obscure powers of the Undead Vampires.





 
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