#werewolf the essentials

[songoftrillium]

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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!

#world of darkness #werewolf: the apocalypse #dead mountain #werewolf the apocalypse #werewolves #world building #queer werewolf #lesbian werewolf #werewolf the essentials #wta #w5 #werewolftheapocalypse #werewolf wednesday

[wolfhidewinter]

A snippet of a piece I'm working on for an awesome project for an indie RPG model of Werewolf: the Apocalypse by https://www.tumblr.com/songoftrillium. If you're interested in the project read more here! Can you tell who I got tasked with drawing? hah

#world of darkness #werewolf the apocalypse #werewolf: the apocalypse #werewolves #werewolf #w5 #werewolf the essentials #wta #werewolftheapocalypse #myart #wolfhidewinter #macabre #bodyhorror #body horror #gore #extra limbs #transformation

[iezeradd]

An angry Garou I put together real quick last weekend

If you're into werewolves and TTRPGs, you should check out Werewolf: the Essentials! They put together an amazing team of artists and writers to create something very badass and queer inclusive

I had a lot of fun drawing this one. This is exactly the sort of thing I used to draw in high school trying to mimic the art style in the W:tA books, except this time I was drawing it with an extra 20 years of experience behind me. Teen me would lose their mind over this drawing

#iezarts #werewolf art #werewolf #ttrpg art #werewolf the apocalypse #werewolf the essentials

[white-noizez]

what if i put together my main hyperfixations and you couldn’t do anything to stop me. /silly

#i drew older doodles of this before! i had this idea before i even had an account mfkfkgf #i jsit i just autismed so hard #this is essentially monster narrator x werewolf stanley #so slay #my art #the stanley parable #tsp #tspud #tsp stanley #narrator tsp #stanley tsp #the narrator #tsp narrator #stanley parable #stanarrator #stannarrator #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #bloodborne

[leopardsealz]

nonbinary werewolf icon

please reblog my art!

#werewolf #werewolf oc #werewolves #fantasy #fantasy oc #furry #anthro #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #sam draws #oc: connor #think i settled on connor for their name #messing around with lycans in my fantasy verse so heres a concept. essentially a wolf furry <3 #normally biped but can easily run on all fours too #anyways i love connor. ideal datefriend material

[trashasaurusrex]

25 (+5 more) Expressions w/Lindsey

Original here: link

#lindsey #my art #lindsey mckales #oc #trashasaurusrex #werewolf #original character #human #expressions #expression sheet #art meme #art challenge #25 essential expressions challenge #this took almost 2 months #wouldve been faster but uhh life happened

[shivered-bones]

canon season two (maybe) except werewolves exist, and steve and billy have both recently been separated from their packs.

steve has never been around his parents long enough to form a bond, and now he's no longer friends with tommy and carol he's adrift. his relationship with nancy is too tumultuous to fulfill his emotional needs, and it's honestly not healthy for either of them.

billy in comparison has never considered neil pack, instead his few friendships took his place. now he's separated from them, and susan and max aren't even a consideration. hawkins is an isolation of a new kind; it might be killing him.

their first meeting is a spark of attraction and contention and knowing. there is something in them, jagged and rough, that slots together. they could be friends and family and lovers and pack.

#harringrove #billy hargrove #werewolf au except the loss of their ability to shift has forced them into human society #packs either of humans or werewolves are essential to keep them centred because they are not hardwired for said human society #brainrot so bad i might cry #this is long form fic potential but i do not have the ideas for it

[nbdarkchococookie]

dark choco werewolf edition :3

#art #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #dark choco cookie #au where doco n werewolf switch places essentially #doco becomes a werewolf n essentially vanishes bc they don't want ppl to see them as a Beaste #dacao misses em more bc from his pov they vanishhed for no reason wven tho i hc they would still live near the citadel #also their werewolf form is inspired by tha cream wolves :3c

[phoenixtakaramono]

Werewolf Butcher x Vampire Homelander Threadfic (🔞)

🔗 to read the rest of the threadfic (Butchlander, 75 tweets, completed)

Personally, these two parts were my favorite moments 🤫:

And the entire reason why I wrote this:

Psssst, if the Twitter app’s still wonky and limits your daily reading or the redirect link on Tumblr isn’t loading, you can open and read all 75 tweets on your mobile Internet browser or on your PC (copy and paste this link: https://twitter.com/phnixtakaramono/status/1676204070330314754?s=20). It will show up. Alternatively you can find all my threadfics under my Pinned Post on Twitter or you can find it in the #butchlander hashtag there.

#butchlander #homelander #billy butcher #billy butcher x homelander #homelander x butcher #the boys tv #the boys #my writing #phoenixtakaramono #this is essentially written bc it’s 7/4 aka Homie’s bday #I might as well give the werewolf x vampire p*rn a try #it’s ✨practice✨

[wholewolfsbane]

What has been the most memorable werewolf experience in your life so far, and why was it so significant?

ooh this is a good one!! i found out about my werewolf id not too long ago tbh, but i have always identified as a canine somehow for as long as i can remember so there are some moments from before i found out about it.

i think my favorite has to be from a few years back, when my dad and my grandma had recently moved into the rural area, in a terrain which was somewhat 'abandoned' and there were only the begginings of a soon to be house and essencially what is a lot of forest. on a random full moon my grandma called me and just asked me to howl at the moon with her. not only is the 'howling at the moon' thing extremely werewolf, but i was doing it with family which just reminded me of a wolf pack. bonus points cause we had recently moved in and wolves howl to mark their territory. cant really describe my emotions during that but it was great,,,, just felt right you know? werewolves howling on a full moon to mark territory on a part of mostly untamed forest.

#asks #my grandma told me shes essentially jaguar otherhearted and i think thats awesome #shes also a witch #god i love my grandma #alterhuman #nonhuman #otherkin #kinmunity #werewolf kin #lycan #lycanthropy

[songoftrillium]

Burned Hide

Illustrated and Licensed from @morggo

Burned Hide is a very old wolf-born garou, well over 100 years old. Cursed with Longevity, she is a living direct descendant of Rala Bloodclaw, and the last surviving descendant of Tawatuy. She has reared and lost many families of wolves in her lifetime, and underwent her first change in trying to save her family from a forest fire.

A Galliard of the Hapil, she is Talesinger of Sept of the Trillium Glade, and Leader of Sept of Thaevarmet to the east. She'd be a legend in her own right, were it not for her tendency to speak her mind and rob herself of the renown, living up to Rala's fiery nature.

With burn scars covering over 75% of her body, she often struggles against the pain caused by these scars, but wears them with pride, advertising the love and dedication she holds for her wolf family. When in the Trillium Glade, she is constantly shaking her head for all the butterflies that like to land on her to drink the tears seeping from her blind eye.

#world of darkness #werewolf: the apocalypse #werewolf the apocalypse #dead mountain #werewolves #werewolf #werewolf the essentials #world building #hapil #older brother #galliard #talesinger #sept of the thaevarmet #Tawatuy #werewolf wednesday

[strawberri-draws]

Oc family!!!!!!

#my art #strawberridraws #OCs #oc art #them!!!! I love them sm #sometimes a family is just the YA love triangle turned poly and their two children (one child being a feral werewolf they adopted) #but yea essentially u have Honey (name and design in progress) #she’s the schoolteacher #and nicknamed mrs honey after Matilda in my Brain #and then there’s white haired guy who works as like a bounty/monster hunter #but retired/slowed down when he had a baby with honey #(the little blonde girl <33) #then there’s the Classic Vampire #he’s so silly #the only reason he comes off as scary is cause he’s shy tm #peak introvert activities: isolating urself in a random castle Beauty and the beast style #until he accidentally adopts a feral werewolf child #and then awkwardly does his best to dad #moving them into town so he can go to school #where he meets his sons cute teacher #but she’s married so he must pine respectfully from afar #while trying to keep his identity as a vampire hidden (really poorly) from the locals #who obviously catch on anyways #so monster hunter (who is respected in the community despite his chronic lack of shirts) #goes to check him out (aka they keep ‘casually’ bumping into each other) #but damn he’s kinda cute…. #so then honey and hunter begin their plan of seduction #but again this man is so awkward it’s like a curse #anyways shenanigans #but they r a FAMILY ok

[siixkiing]

Me with talks of werewolves on my dashboard: ...I feel like I'm being called out specifically.

#Loss of Powers | {OOC} #The Scrolls | Mun Menu {Post} #Look look look...I like Werewolves; both monsterous AF and hot AF... #And you will not believe how many werewolf characters/shows/movies I like and how many of my own original work revolves around them too... #I still wish I had the one cyberpunk werewolf artwork I had done for college...=3= #And yes; one of the 'inspirations' for that one was Van Helsing's werewolf AND Underworld's lycans #I did a hybrid of both essentially...and man I wish I had managed to get that artwork back for the professor =w=

[lluvguts]

update : i am still writing my task force werewolf au, i am planning on it being a oneshot that will be Extremely long, and will be expected sometime in autumn :)

#soapghost #cod mw2 ghost #ghostsoap #werewolf au #i can only write so much at one time before my brain essentially gives up #i am also such a slow writer and beta for other people and will put their works and editing above my own

[fightful]

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#pinned. #PLEASE NOTE. this blog solely uses the beta editor ! #my werewolf mans . . . #a tl;dr of octavius is he's a werewolf-adajcent individual tied with a zacian form ! #i essentially partially rewrite the lore to the first Darkest Day

[911-on-abc]

I never thought I would say this before, but werewolf buddie AUs mean everything to me

#not really a fan of A/B/O bc I don't really like the inherent themes of biological essentialism that come with the trope #and werewolf AUs often have an alpha/omega dynamic involved in it #BUT #I do love the idea of having a pack and *forming* a pack #and Eddie and Buck's bond existing at this primal level #also 'scenting' as a concept is just so delicious to me #there is something so intimate about being comforted by someone's smell alone #mmm #plus I think Christopher as a little wolf pup would be sooo cute #my post