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The End Times
The Penumbra has fallen to the Wyrm. The Weaver has calcified the Gauntlet making it impossible to reach to the other side. The numbers of Garou have fallen dramatically and they now number the population of the other Changing Breeds. The chances of Kinfolk and Garou conceiving are slim to none, and those that make it past the first year of infancy lack a world of colour and spirit; they see their surroundings in dark shades of gray, and find it difficult to experience the most basic of emotions. The Garou, mighty warriors of Gaia, are facing a very real threat; extinction. The Apocalypse, the End Times, are here.The Garou are not the only ones that have been effected by the last battle. The Changing Breeds have also suffered much the same and this is a prime reason that some have chosen to remain out of hiding, working with those Garou that are willing. Most Garou have worked with the Fera and continue to create small alliances with one another. They have became more trusting of the Bastet of all the Fera, the breed that gave up their secrets of Den Realms, working with the Garou Theurges and spirits alike, to create these safe havens in the Umbra. The Garou, no longer a dominating force as they once were, are forced to work with the others in order to survive. Its up to the individual Garou in question of whether they trust the other Fera, but as a general view there is more to gain working together than if each of the changing breeds continued to try and survive alone. The Fera are still somewhat wary of the Garou and by all rights they should be. The ground of an alliance is a shaky one but it is a beginning foundations that could become something more substantial.
Some say that these radical changes is Gaia's way of ensuring unity, that there has been too much bloodshed between her children, and this is her way of connecting them together in something other than warfare. Perhaps it was never about war, but balance, and with all the radical changes that has happened since the Battle of the Umbra, there certainly seems to be some evidence to support these theories. The new generation of Garou have had more changes in their lifetime than the all the generations that came before them. It leaves them stumbling on new ground as they try and explain what is happening around them, and all the while they are still trying to survive after some of the most hardest and trying times of the Nation. But there is hope. Hope in their kinfolk and in finding answers in the most unlikely places. Garou have fought against the odds and although they did not come out on top, there is the smell of change on the wind. There is sprigs of newly blossomed flowers in the cracks of crumbled cities. And with every newborns cry that can be heard beneath the chorus of a Septs howl, the Nation knows that not all is lost yet and this generation may be the one that changes the tides of success and may finally bring Gaia to the glory of what she could be.