The Map and Setting


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Far off in the world, where few men used to tread, there was the wild. The earth shifted and transformed, and made that place new again. It took time, but all the animals slept, and waited for the storms of the First Ones to clear away and give them a new home...

The world we used to know is now gone, replaced with the land masses of the future. We find ourselves somewhere after the nuclear winter, after the polar floods, and after the plates shifted to make new continents. We can't know for sure where these wolves have made their home, but in the winter it is bitter cold, and some summer days are fair and beautiful. So we may find ourselves somewhere along the coasts of what was once Southern Europe, lands that kiss both the tepid tritoatlantic waters and a much more sinister northerly breeze.

What is known, though, is that the mountains make up great distance in sheer height, and their saw-toothed tips can shift the very weather on each side. This makes for quite a difference in terrain from the western desert to the eastern forest, which are separated by the winding bodies of White Snake, Red Snake, and Black Snake rivers. These three domains meet at the Serpent's Mouth, an area that the wolves know as a sacred place within Three-Serpents Sound.

The wolves regarded these natural boundaries as a sign long ago, when the first great pack traversed the wicked Charred Lands and came upon the welcoming expanse that made up the Sound, moving down from the frigid alpine pass through the Piars. This tired band of refugees had walked for a thousand nights over uncertain and dadly ground, guided only with the faint scent of hope on the wind. Started by one small pack, many others joined them in the coarse of this seemingly endless pilgrimage. But now, with hundreds of miles to stake claim in, and many new bonds both forged and broken, the wolves parted. They seperated by way of the old packs, down to their roots with the First Ones and their old ways in the wastes. They ran to the three reaches of the Sound.

The Cry

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Conflict: Social

Only the strongest of the packs chose to venture to the frozen Northern reaches. Many other clans of wolves traveled to the South, but the South spat them back, as the Serpent's Mouth, a delta of three rivers that spilled into the sea, was there in the place of land, and so those wanderers went too, to the North and snow. There they fought until the Cry emerged as the true keepers of the mountains, though the place was still divided - not in title, but in spirit. The Dire and the Dred were at odds...

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The Watchers

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Conflict: Supernatural

To the East ran a noble pack, who went on to roam the deep woods and the swamps, its rich history whispering softly in the fogs that had lingered there since the First Ones. But these whispers grew louder and louder, and the shadows began to walk on their own. The forest remembered its old keepers, and their souls wanted to take back what had once been theirs. But the pack had staked its claim in the woods, and they made do. The Watchers would make this place a home...

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The Sorrows

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Conflict: Environmental

In the deserts the remnants took root, but their roots could not dig deep. The East drank all the rain, and the mountains pushed the clouds away. All that rested in the West was sand and sun. The wolves suffered for a long time, and came to be known as the Sorrows. But one day, they began to move. They chased the summer herds, and in winter the small game. But when the spring came and the grasslands cried for water, there was none, and the beast herds became scarce...

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