Garou of Madison
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🐺 Garou of Madison
Defenders of Gaia in a City on the Brink
🌿 Overview
The Garou (Werewolves) of Madison are divided, wounded, and haunted by their proximity to the Capitol Node—a sacred yet unstable metaphysical faultline that ties them to the fate of the Nameless. While they hold several Caerns throughout the city, their unity is threatened by tribal ambition, Wyrm corruption, and ancient blood feuds.
The 1985 murder of William Burke, Silver Fang leader of the Arboretum Sept, has destabilized the entire region. Leadership is contested, and old alliances with Mages and Kindred teeter on collapse.
🛕 Key Caerns and Locations
🌲 Arboretum Caern
- Tribal Control: Wendigo-led, shared with Fianna, Silver Fangs, and Children of Gaia
- Importance: Madison’s most powerful Caern, connected directly to the Capitol Node
- Notes: Site of major rituals, conflict resolution, and prophetic visions. The Nameless seeks to corrupt this Caern as a means of anchoring itself to EarthGarou of Madison.
🧹 Peace Park Caern
- Tribal Control: Bone Gnawers
- Focus: Healing, refuge, spiritual recovery
- Notes: Established in the 1980s by Donnie, this Caern protects the homeless and marginalized. Its humble energy resists spiritual corruption and shelters the Garou from digital and Umbral interferenceGarou of Madison.
🕳️ Quarry Ridge Den
- Tribal Control: Black Spiral Dancers (Wyrm-corrupted)
- Notes: A tainted site, used as a staging ground for attacks on the Arboretum. Connected to the Capitol Node’s shadow resonance.
- Leader: Zarbok – Bale Hound and general of the Nameless’ physical forcesGarou of Madison.
🐾 Tribal Presence and Key Figures
🦁 Silver Fangs
- William Burke (deceased) – Former leader of the Arboretum Sept. Wise, spiritual, and cautious. Murdered near the Capitol Node with glyphs carved into his flesh.
- Peter Kobyla – Burke’s heir apparent. Charismatic but suspected of Nameless corruption by many, including Bone Gnawers and Glass WalkersMadtown World of Darkne….
- Morning Song (Talia Wilford) – Young Galliard seeking to reunite the tribes post-BurkeGarou of Madison.
🧥 Shadow Lords
- Roberta Strake – Ragabash. Known for political manipulation, blackmail, and secretive dealings with Kindred. May be playing both sides of the Caern conflict.
🧚 Fianna
- Carwyn Braughan – Tale Singer. Supports Wendigo leadership. Spiritual bridge between mages and Garou.
🌩️ Glass Walkers
- Cadence Olson – Galliard. Manages spiritual defenses at her electronics shop. Developing an urban Caern.
- Oil Paw (Allen Wood) – Ahroun. Works with Virtual Adepts to combat the Nameless in the Digital WebGarou of Madison.
🍂 Children of Gaia
- Protects the Children (Tad Whittier) – Ragabash diplomat. Helps maintain the Gahara Pact, increasingly frustrated with tribal infighting.
🦴 Bone Gnawers
- Donnie – Ahroun. Founder of the Peace Park Caern. Spirit-touched and guided by Luna. Investigates deepening Shadow Zones beneath MadisonGarou of Madison.
🧳 Silent Striders
- Marko Cooper – Oldest known Garou in the region. Wandering Galliard with ties to every tribe.
🧛 Relationships with Other Supernaturals
🦇 Kindred
- Tori Redford (Gangrel, Prince of Madison) was a key ally through her Wendigo ancestry.
- The alliance is broken after her murder in 1985. Kindred-Garou war looms again.
🧙♂️ Mages
- Strong alliances with Verbena, Akashics, and Dreamspeakers.
- Deep distrust of Hermetics and Virtual Adepts—particularly over their use of the Capitol Node.
- Key Mage Allies: Glory of the Morning, Ann Johnston, Miriam GreenfieldMadtown World of Darkne….
🧚♂️ Fae
- Shared spiritual goals with Fianna and Wendigo.
- Support each other in maintaining the Dreaming and natural Caerns.
📅 Key Events in Garou History
🔥 1904 – The Capitol Fire and the Gahara Pact
- Baali ritual ignites a paradox storm in the Capitol.
- Garou (led by Otto Wolfgang) and Hermetics repel the threat.
- The Gahara Pact is formed between Garou, Mages, Kindred, and Wraiths to maintain peaceMadtown World of Darkne….
🩸 1955 – Kindred–Garou War
- Gangrel elder Otto Wolfgang is assassinated (framed on the Garou, actually Nephandic).
- The Arboretum becomes a battlefield.
- Black Spiral Dancers, led by Zarbok, stage an assault from Quarry Ridge.
- William Burke defeats them, but his spirit is marked by that dayMadtown World of Darkne….
⚖️ 1975 – Peace Brokered
- Tori Redford and Burke create a new alliance between Kindred and Garou.
- The Capitol Node is stabilized temporarily.
☠️ 1985 – The Capitol Murders
- February 9: William Burke is killed at Peace Park, carved with Nephandic runes.
- February 9: Black Spiral Dancers assault a Garou–Mage meeting at the Arboretum.
- Garou unity shatters, and the Nameless begins to breach the SealMadtown World of Darkne….
🧿 Black Spiral Dancers & the Nameless
- Zarbok leads the Black Spiral cabal in Madison.
- Their goal: Corrupt the Capitol Node, merge the Gauntlet with a permanent Wyrm gate, and usher in a post-apocalyptic Gaia.
- They are guided by dreams from the Nameless, and may be manipulating Peter Kobyla to take over the Arboretum from withinGarou of Madison.
📜 The Future: 1985 and Beyond
The Garou are leaderless, their unity shattered by betrayal and death.
The Capitol Node pulses with dark resonance.
The Nameless watches through glyphs, parasites, and dream-spirits.
The fate of Gaia, the Pact, and Madison itself hangs by a thread.
“The Caern breathes… but it bleeds. We are not just warriors—we are what remains between the earth and the scream.” — Carwyn Braughan, Fianna Tale-Singer