>W20 Shattered Dreams
>before the War of Rage proper, the Garou actually worked with and trusted the other Fera (mostly, there were some hiccups)
>then Mount Toba went boom and everything went wrong
>the Garou are most of the reason any other Fera survive the Banestorm, only they have the combination of numbers and fighting prowess to fight the absolute flood of Banes that come out of that volcano, it was a miniature Eye of Terror in there
>the eruption also strengthens the Gauntlet, so most other Fera are cut off from the Umbra for anywhere between centuries and forever
>Garou want half the surviving Homo sapiens as Kinfolk to rebuild after suffering Imperial Guard-tier casualties protecting everyone else
>the Bastet, who are even more depleted, tell them to go pound sand, all the Homo sapiens are theirs
>later, a Ragabash kills some Fomori but is the only survivor, and then berserk frenzies because all his friends are dead, killing all the other humans there
>the fresh meat attracts a pride of normal lions, and the woof is still in berserk frenzy so he kills them too
>a queen of the Simba passes judgement on him for this after he turns himself in - whatever she said was so vile that he immediately berserk frenzied again and killed her
>the Bastet decide, for this insult, to kill every single Garou and Garou Kin in Africa, and don't stop even after an Ananasi and a Nagah kill the guy who did it
>the refugees flee to India, where the local Bastet already know and want everyone to kill them too, but because they don't frenzy, the other Fera say "hold up"
>some of the Garou move further east to avoid being murdered by cats and find eastern Asia is still full of Wyrm stuff
>a bunch of Wyrm-corrupted Ananasi living in the crater left behind by Mount Toba started screwing with the Kinfolk of the other Fera in Sundaland
>the Garou refugees drive them out and eventually settle Australia and become the Bunyip; if they hadn't done this, the corrupted Ananasi would've taken over Australia and put the whole thing under the Wyrm's control before humans ever got there
>later
>the Ananasi kill off huge numbers Neanderthals and refuse to elaborate (Neanderthals were the bulk of human Kinfolk at the time, so this was bad for literally all the other Fera)
>the surviving Neanderthals figure out the Khara's weakness, so the Bastet in general start killing them to stop them from drawing pictures of werecats
>the Garou ask what the hell the Bastet are doing killing their Kinfolk, and the cats refuse to elaborate
>the ensuing Rage sees the Garou kill every Khara in Europe
>this scares the Mokole into leaving Europe forever, and taking the remaining Bastet of Europe with them to the Americas
>the local Garou don't learn about this until a Nuwisha tells them, so they go to ask the newcomers "hey, what the hell did our cousins do?" and get a faceful of angry were-lion for their trouble
>said local Garou then start killing the refugees' Kinfolk because "apes should not wield fire what the hell," and start losing the ensuing war
>one pack summons a storm-spirit over North America that kills all the Khara, all the humans, and almost all the Mokole and other Bastet that fled Europe despite the best efforts of literally everyone else (including the other native Garou)
>meanwhile in South America, the local Garou find everyone suddenly abandoning them due to the actions of the Garou in Europe
>they get angry and try to beat answers out of the other Fera (this was not helped by Spirits telling them the European Mokole were probably Wyrm-corrupted), who proceed to drive them to complete extinction, the last of them fleeing towards Antarctica to die in the cold sea
>later
>the Ratkin notice the beginning of agriculture and decide this is blasphemy-heresy, yes-yes
>the Ratkin unleash a plague without telling anyone
>the plague starts killing off early farming communities, then Kinfolk, THEN GAROU (who had been on the Ratkin's SIDE on the agriculture thing, to the point of doing an early version of the Impergium)
>a significant percentage of the Garou population dies of rat-induced ick
>because no one knows the Ratkin did it, the Garou get paranoid and don't realize it was the rats for hundreds of years (they start to blame the Bastet, the Apis, and even the Grondr before they figure out the truth)
>one Ragabash learns who really did it, tells her pack at nightfall, and the rats kill her by dawn
>all the other Fera are also dying of the plague, and team up with the Garou to kill off the Ratkin Bards while the rest go to ground
>the last Ratkin Bards sacrifice themselves casting a curse SPECIFICALLY TO DRIVE A SPIRITUAL WEDGE BETWEEN THE GAROU AND THE OTHER FERA (and humanity)
For all the Garou Slander we do in this thread, the other Fera really don't help their cases either, huh?