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So here's the general idea. Gaia wove the primal spark through the spirits of all her creatures, that they might be protected and kept in balance. It remains dormant in most, scattered through populations, and can be brought to the fore by need or by the actions of those who've already had it awakened. The cosmology is otherwise the same. The Tribes and Changing Breeds are all the same, at least on the basic-stereotype level. (cont)
WtA thoughts, please poke holes in this if you know the lore
Weretype is determined by temperment/destiny/whatever else (in other words, player choice)
Auspice (if your weretype has one) is determined by when you changed, which itself is usually tied to some defining emotional moment (a bite can kindle the spark, but it ignites fully on its own).
Tribe/camp/etc is generally self-chosen based on ideology. Factions still bicker for the same reasonable and unreasonable reasons, of course.
WtA thoughts, please poke holes in this if you know the lore
Mixed-weretype packs/bands/whatever are much less unusual, the enmities between different species may still exist to some degree, but are not played as universal.
WtA thoughts, please poke holes in this if you know the lore
@indi How would you handle the War of Shame? Did it not happen, or happen differently? I can see possibilities but I'd like to hear your thoughts before I jump in.
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@literorrery TBH, the notion that Garou have historically been intolerant dipshits who still have a lot to answer for is something I see as more feature than bug. I'd say that the Australian shifters in general just ended up being different enough that colonialism happened, and while they're not eradicated, they're in the same situation as lots of other indigenous peoples.
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@indi Oh, I'm all for keeping it in. Now it's spiritual discrimination, not just familial. And I can see people still having legitimate grievances about it that a game could and should address.
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@literorrery Yeah, this exactly. I acknowledge that it runs a bit against my 'tribes are freely-chosen and affinity-based' a bit, but I think there's room for some variance in there, and the cultural effect of being a racial outgroup (which would still exist, especially for homids) shouldn't be erased.
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@literorrery I'm going to mostly leave the native stuff aside and let it be tackled by people who want to engate with it dorectly to tell their own stories though, because I already feel like I'm rapidly swimming into waters I don't know much about. ;)
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@literorrery (dang I make a lot of typos when I talk about stuff that makes me anxious. c.c)
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@literorrery This actually gives might give a means by which to contend with the other uncomfortable Noble Savage tendencies in the game, actually; what if the other Native-derived tribes had something similar happen?