Living as a Garou means more than simply surviving. They are a gestalt born of instinctual drives and a purpose- cemented into a spiritual, communal marriage of willing souls dedicated to each other. Werewolves might be the apex predator in the ecosystem, the strongest of Gaia’s Warriors, but many jackals can take down a lion with just the right amount of patience and luck.Ī Garou pack is more than a collection of individuals working together for survival. Humans also evolved to form communities, huddled around the fire in the dark of night long ago. Wolves hunt and live together in packs due to instinct evolved over several millennia, but it is a mistake to dismiss the pack as part of the animalistic nature of being a werewolf.
The pack is the cultural frame through which players experience the world of Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Charlie Whitehorn, Pack Leader of the Lucky Birds Why? We’re the Lucky Birds, and we stand together.” And I swear every time that Johnny Three-Bones gets us in dutch with the sept Elders, I ask myself a simple question: is it really a violation of the Litany to put him out of our misery? Yet, we always stand by him. But we’ve literally been to Malfeas and back for each other. “Are there times when the Lucky Birds want to murder each other? Only every day we’re alive.
