The Distant Past
Where do we come from? We come from Germany, form Scandinavia, from Iceland, and from
a dozen other parts of the world. The history of our roving is as much a part of
of our heritage as anything the humans write about our Kinfolk in their history books.
We were not the first Garou, but we will be the last. Some say that we are merely a branch
that evolved from the Silver Fangs. Few have said this to the face of any Get and lived to
brag about the insult. We know better, Ages ago, Great Fenris created us as a favor
to Gaia. Gaia was displeased by the humans who slaughtered her wolf children, wearing
their skins for warmth and leaving the meat to rot of feed the carrion crows. The
humans rarely slaughtered the wolves for food or survival. Instead, they just killed
for sport and to prove thier paltry valor.
Fenris called us his Get, and demanded that we serve as Gaia's Claws, destroying
the weak and feeding on the corrupt. In those days, Fenris still roamed free and often
led his Children in glorious bloody battel. From him, we learned how best to cull
the weak from the flocks of humans. Humans fell before us, victims of the Impergium.
But we were both wolf and human. We learned many of the ways of the Nordic people, those
who were the strongest and foercest, those who resisted the Impergium well. We learned
to live among them, to fight with them, and we chose from them the Kinfolk we deemed worthy.
Does this sound arrogant to you? It should, for we are Get of Fenris and our destiny
is to kill Jormangundr in the time of Ragnarok.
From the first days, the Ahrouns have led us, for they are the strongest and most
savage. There are many who feel this is wrong, that others should be allowed to lead
the tribe. I say to you what has always been said to the whiners: If you can take
the leader in honorable combat, than you can lead us.
The greatest heroes of the Viking lore were actually Get of Fenris.
We only have tolerated the dilution of the truth among the humans only for the sake of
the Concord. I can see it in your eyes... you feel that the Concord was
a mistake. Many agree with you, but the dicision was made before our time of power.
But i am getting ahead of myself. The Get of Fenris have been around longer then even the
Vikings. The tales are a great deal human archaeologists believe. They
say the Norsemen were not really a cohesive poeple until 200 B.C., but this is wrong.
We kept the Weaver from our Kinfolk longer than most tribes protected their flocks,
and thus our people left no writing or proof of their ways until later. We are proud that
we are thus able to hide the oldest secrets from the human scientists.
We walked the eath and roamed the barren wastes of the Nortlands hunderds of years
before the iron age. We have changed a lot along the way. In those times, we were simply called
the Sons of the Wolf, of the Fenrir.
When our tribe arrived in the North, they dicovered weak humans. If these humans were to be
part of our flocks, they had to he hardened. Thus we began our lessons. We taught
them to coat thier hearts with ice, and let only the fires of their own hearts melt it.
For dangers lurked everywhere, and a weak heart asked of death. Only among family and
pack can one relax. All others are to be distrusted.
There were a few Garou in the area, but they were weak, like the humans, and we destoryed
them. No one is certain, but many they were from the so called Pure Ones. Back in those
days, when the Northlands were still in the grip of the Ice Age, the lands were harsh
and food was hard to find. The Garou in the area had even given up on hunting properly,
and kept their herds penned in, destroying the balance that Gaia had created.
The Fenrir took the ways of the local Garou as a sign of the Wyrm, and slaughtered many,
driving others far from the lands we had claimed as our own. Some of the elders in the
Tribe say there were White Howlers among those we drove away. More likely, they were Fianna. If they were Howlers, then it is good we were rid of them before they could corrupt our chosen home.
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