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I think Werewolf is an inherently queer medium

This is all a part of a larger long-term project.

I am trying to hold the World of Darkness to higher standards of inclusivity.

Book 1: Cliath

Meet The Gaians — a chosen people blessed by Gaia of whom among them there are heroes who are born, blessed with the power to Change. They have been charged with the duty of protecting her and her brood, and among them are fellowships from every culture. They are largely comprised of Kinfolk. Vanguards of the earth, they follow the Codes and Creeds of renown in chiminage to the spirits in exchange for favor, protection, and power to strengthen their Fellowships and they form one of several primary factions.

A small number of Gaia’s chosen have been gifted the ability to shapeshift through either bite or birth into animals; warriors joining the fight against the Wyrm. The Gaians have many secret names for these shapeshifters between their cultures, and they range across many animal species and tribes, but the most common among them in these times are Garou.

This sourcebook includes information on First Changes, Rites of Passage, how people become werewolves, and what they're fighting for. Book 1 is effectively a players guide, including enough comprehensive character creation rules for people to create rank 1 Garou.

The World of Darkness is implied to exist just beneath a facade that all others take for granted as simply being a world gone wrong. When the Change happens to a Garou, human or otherwise, the world they once knew ceases to be. The Apocalypse is said to be something happening to everything, everywhere, simultaneously, and on every level. This transcends the concept of everything succumbing to a singular event but many small ones.

In many ways, the Garou themselves are emblematic of this Apocalypse, with these former lives ending and sweeping the cub into something far bigger than themselves. A Call To Action is the theme of Book 1.

Book 1: Cliath goes into warborn, bitten, wolf-born, and human-born lives leading up to the change. It presents a curated depiction of the Garou from the perspective of those who would mentor them. There are not a lot of conflicts, profound lore, or politics so much as 'this is what we are, this is what we do.' Functionally, this can be considered a Players’ Guide, containing your attributes, abilities, advantages, and Merits and Flaws. Gifts and rites will be truncated to rank 1 for the most part. Guidelines for new STs will be found here, including enough powers and enemy stats to keep their troupe of players on their toes. This will also include things like chargen and descriptions of attributes, abilities, and advantages. This will also have many details on packs and the importance of one's packmates. And what better way to introduce new players than to have it happen in an all-new setting for storytellers to introduce their players to the game: the first three chapters of Dead Mountain!

Dead Mountain isn't going anywhere. In fact, it will be used as the foundation for this series. Already-finished parts of the Dead Mountain will be released over the next few months, and a delayed release of the full chronicle will come next spring. The scope of Werewolf: the Essentials will strongly diverge from past game traditions. In past core books and settings, there was an intent to showcase the world at large, written from the perspective of people who had never been to these places. In the end, many details were laughably wrong or mediocre representations that didn’t appeal to the groups they represented. We want the World of Darkness to be HUGE. So, we will be laser-focusing this project to represent the Garou from the Pacific Northwest as an example, with guidelines on how to make your own World of Darkness at your locale HUGE too!

CALLING ALL CHARACHS!

We cannot make this happen without your help.  We are putting out the call for folx from all parts of the queer, lesbian, trans, bisexual, gay, and asexual werewolf fandom looking to help make this the best possible release we can:

Artists

Horror writers

Editors

Consultants

Hype Wolves to help spread the word

Indie TTRPG creators

Working together, we can create a game that is fun, engaging, and genuinely representative of the diverse community of players and fans who love Werewolf. To help us out, click here We look forward to providing you future updates!

UPDATE: Our team has grown huge, and we're grateful to the fandom for rising up and howling with us! We received far more applications than we were able to fully process, but we promise to deliver you the best possible Sourcebook anthology we can! Meet the Writing Team Meet the Art Team Follow our official account for future announcements! To check out a book preview and help us hire cultural consultants click here

Social Media Shout-out! I offer my thanks to @peltofash and @a-boros-named-seamus for supporting me on the Adren and Athro tiers! Your contributions are directly helping make this game more inclusive!

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Rook: *punches the first warden*

Bellara and Emmrich: what the fuck-

Everyone else: *cheerful clapping*

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Look, I know some people are upset with how the South is handled in DATV. But this isn't the writers invalidating what came before, they're not erasing the people and cultures we loved.

Just because it's tragic does not mean it's bad writing.

Ferelden and Orlais and the Marches haven't collapsed. They were on the brink, yes, but Origins saw the entirety of Ferelden blighted for a year and by Inquisition, it was healed. This is not the end for the South, even more so if you consider that the Hossberg epilogue slide straight up says that the Blight is dying. Solas went off into the Black City to "soothe its anger" and it's working.

This taste of apocalypse might even jolt the South into finally showing some of the reforms we made since Origins, like Elves and Mages getting better treatment, that have been ignored for years.

The writers are giving the characters from the previous games stuff to do, which is more than we got in DA2 and arguably with the Warden in DAI (yes we got the letter but I for one will take no letter and the presumption that they're fighting the Blight over "yeah i know the world is ending but I'm too busy saving my own life, peace out" any day).

Where do you get the notion that every single past character needs to be namedropped in all sequels for their story to matter? Most of them had their time, their story is over, and we have to learn to let them go, because the series carrying this kind of ever growing load of cameos is unsustainable.

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Me having fun with the Crows, loving Teia and Viago’s interactions with my Rook but suddenly remembering how they recruit new members.

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by Gaby Soto,Senior Lighting Artist at Bioware

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The Gods punish us. They punish me.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — S2E2 x S2E3

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ALICENT HIGHTOWER and HELAENA TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 2x06: Smallfolk

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ALICENT HIGHTOWER and HELAENA TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — Season 2 (2024)

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ALICENT HIGHTOWER and HELAENA TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — S2E8: The Queen Who Ever Was

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helaena being the most like viserys out of all of his kids re: the people pleasing. sometimes it occurs to her that alicent/rhaenyra only ever seem to want to talk to her abt the other one, always seem to be humoring her when she talks about *her* interests, and those are Bad thoughts because theyre the only ones who pay her any attention at all and if *they* don't like her then- but then alicent and rhaenyra are there and petting her hair and calling her sweet names and its okay and shes Obviously just being silly love just makes you feel scared and alone and used sometimes its all okay 😌😌

Of Course alicent and rhaenyra love her! they *said* they love her, so it must be true. if it feels like they hurt her sometimes its just because thats how love is. :) its better than being alone

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ALICENT HIGHTOWER and HELAENA TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 2x06: Smallfolk

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RENEÉ RAPP Nardwuar vs. Renee Rapp

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RENEÉ RAPP Saturday Night Live (2024)

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RENEE RAPP

Saturday Night Live — 49x09 (January 20, 2024)

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wat in the lesbianism is goin awn 𖹭

Yinlin x fem!Rover would make such a cute ship ngl. Also I'm gonna be delulu and assume Yinlin's words have a double meaning in this particular dialogue lol.

I was inclined towards fem!Rover x Yangyang at first but most of it was based on Yangyang's subtle crush on her, but I definitely see more chemistry with Yinlin due to the push-and-pull dynamics in the storyline and the similarities in their circumstances. I think Rover has a subtle curiosity towards Yinlin and never pulls away from her.

Both lonely girls in a big wide world having to find their own answers, burdened with responsibilities neither of them really asked for.

Someone as aloof as fem!Rover could use a playful and spontaneous femme gf like Yinlin hehe.

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New ship new ship!

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Download Wuthering Waves because the combat looked super fun (and it is). The main story however has been super confusing. Things just aren't built up to or explained very well and characters just seem to do things/say things out of nowhere. BUT...

I did the Yinlin side story and not only is that story pretty well done in contrast, it has also given me my newest ship!!!

Fem Rover X Yinlin!!!

I need more of her now!!!