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Prehistory (oWOD)

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[edit] Events

  • 10-20 billion years ago: The Big Bang. Weaver begins creating galaxies, planets, and stars. Wyrm explodes stars and creates black holes, although Weaver dislikes this (even though her own laws of physics demand it), and doesn’t like to see it. Singularities are thus hidden behind event horizons.[1]
  • 3.5-4 billion years ago: Life appears on Earth, as well as spirits.[1]
  • Weaver creates Ananasa.[2]
  • 400 million years ago: Ananasa creates different species of flying insects by diversifying them. [2]
  • 360 million years ago: Weaver attempts to trap Wyld, and fails. Ananasa takes the energy released and with the assistance of Wyrm, who wanted to create and not only devour, makes the spider as a perfectly balanced creature. It soon makes it’s own spirit, pleasantly surprising both Ananasa and the Triat.[2]
  • The Mokole are created by Gaia and the Wyld to be her memory.[2]
  • Wyld creates The Rokea for Gaia.[2]
  • Weaver creates the Insect Races, shapeshifters from bees, moths, hornets, locusts, ants, and termites. When the Moths refuse to serve her, she destroys their spirits. Wyld is outraged, and attacks Weaver. Weaver destroys the life on the Moon.[2]
  • Ananasa creates the Ananasi.[2]
  • The Severing. Weaver traps Wyrm. Wyrm goes insane. Weaver begins calcifying the Umbra.[3]
  • The Insect Wars. The Ananasi exterminate the Insect Races.[2]
  • 150 million years ago: Mokole begin to create a civilization, later referred to as “The Age of Kings”.[4]
  • 65 million years ago: Cretaceous period ends with a mass extinction, the Wonderwork of the Dissolver. Ammonite shapeshifters and bristlecreeper shapeshifters die out. All evidence of the Age of Kings is also destroyed. Surviving Mokole can no longer take the Drachid form.[4] Paleocene begins. Mokole decide to guide the evolution of mammals into a new tool making species, which eventually become humans. They later regret this.[4]
  • Gaia creates Garou. Originally, their life spans were closer to wolf years, but over time, they begin to have more human life pans and aging patterns.[5]
  • 2.3 – 2.5 million years ago: Weaver takes humanity as her adopted child to help bring order to the world. Humans discover how to use stone tools and to hunt.[1]
  • Pre-Ice Age: Garou, nature spirits, and Fae fight Wyrm corruption in Eurasia.[6]
  • Garou fight the Talons of the Wyrm, eventually binding them.[7]
  • 1.75 million years ago-100,000 years ago: The Ice Age. Gaia attempts to root out Wyrm-corruption on her body by using glaciers. It is not as effective in Eurasia as it was in the Americas, as the Wyrm had no direct access to the Western hemisphere.[6]Finger Lakes of upstate New York are said to be formed when Gaia reaches down, scoops out corruption from the area, and sanctifies it. [6]
  • 100,000 years ago: Human diaspora. Early humans leave Africa and various cultures form. Some Garou discourage Weaver influence on various cultures, resulting in what some call “primitive” cultures. Others ignore or actively encourage Weaver influence.[1]
  • The first homid Ananasi is born in the Simyan Mountains of Africa. [2]
  • 70,000 years ago: Neanderthals appear. First Neanderthal homid Ananasi is born. [2]
  • 63846 BCE: The Shenti which will later be dubbed Autochthonia grows from a two-dimensional surface into a tetrahedron.[8]
  • 63842 BCE: The Shenti which will later be dubbed Autochthonia grows from a tetrahedron into a 16-sided shape.[8]
  • 63826 BCE: The Shenti which will later be dubbed Autochthonia grows from a 16-sided shape into a 256-sided shape.[8]
  • 63570 BCE: The Shenti which will later be dubbed Autochthonia grows from a 256-sided shape into a 65,536-sided shape.[8]
  • Fianna arrive in Ireland, and are met by the Tuatha De Danann. [9]
  • Garou begin the Impergium. Bastet and Garou participate, although some Bastet disagree with it, which eventually leads to a civil war among the Bastet. [10] Nagah do not participate, although Nagah do cause Delirium for some reason. [11] With Fianna support, Druid Verbena mages of Ireland help to enforce the Impergium through human sacrifice.[9] Sceptre of the Impergium fetish is created by the Silver Fangs.[12]
  • Maru-Dikleh War. Two rival Khan Bastet kings decimate the tribe[10]
  • 20,000-30,000 years ago: Wendigo, Uktena, and Croatan go over Bering Land Bridge with early Amerindians.[7]It appears to them after they had been lead to East Asia by Gaia and prayed for guidance. Wyrm creatures try to follow them, but the bridge breaks and falls into the sea, taking them with it, and isolating the Americas from Wyrm influence. [6]The Three Brothers build a sacred mound where the bridge was, and destroy most of the remaining corruption in the Americas. [6]The Garou leadership serves to lessen the Delirium in Amerindians.[6]Inuit peoples cross in two waves cross after the bridge refreezes, and remain in Northern Canada and Alaska to maintain the wards keeping the Wyrm out.[6]
  • The totem of the Wendigo changes from Sasquatch to Wendigo..[13]
  • 13000 BCE: A group of Paleo-Indians hunt mastodon, bison, woolly mammoth and caribou in the Las Vegas valley.[14]
  • 10500 BCE: The "First Time of Osiris," when Osiris reportedly walks the Earth regularly.[15]
  • 10500 BCE: The end of the previous ice age, and the beginning of the Age of Leo.[16]
  • 10500 BCE: The Beth-Alpha Synagogue in Galilee mosaic has encoded time indicators pointing to this year.[17]
  • 10500 BCE: The Greek myth of Astraea is linked to this year.[17]
  • 10000 BCE - 5000 BCE: Most historians place this as "prehistory."[18] The construction of the Sphinx dates to this time.[15]
  • 10000 BCE: The Zi Guang claim to have been founded, influencing and warping the Chi in rice plants to make them more productive.[19]
  • 8000 BCE: The Bushmen of sub-Saharan Africa develop agriculture and animal domestication.[20]
  • 8000 BCE: The oldest signs of human habitation in Japan (the Jomon) date to roughly this time.[21]
  • The Concord, the great agreement of the Garou to end the Impergium (and establishing other traditions of the Garou as well) is reached around 7000 BCE.[22] First mention of the Bone Gnawers as a Tribe (the other ones are much older).[23] When the Impergium ends, Weaver vows never to allow humans to be victimized again.[24]
  • By contrast, some Ratkin suggest 6000 BCE as the rough date for the beginning of the Impergium.[25]
  • The Tuatha De Danann and the Fey leave the physical world.[9]
  • Tribal shamans, mystics and healers discover the hidden precepts of magic, identifying natural and supernatural sources of power within and outside the borders of perception. Magic, religion and early science coexist as the basis of creativity and progress.[27]

[edit] References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 WTA: Book of the Weaver, p. 17
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 WTA: Ananasi, p. 20
  3. ↑ WTA: Book of the Weaver, p. 18
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 WTA: Mokole, p.21
  5. ↑ WTA: Ways of the Wolf, p.28
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 WTA: Rage Across New York, p. 3
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 WTA: Werewolf: Storyteller’s Companion, p. 58
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 MTA: Beyond the Barriers: The Book of Worlds, p. 104
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 WTA: Fianna, p.17
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 WTA: Bastet
  11. ↑ WTA: Nagah, p.24
  12. ↑ WTA: Rage Across the Amazon, p.101
  13. ↑ WTA: Tribebook:Wendigo Revised
  14. ↑ MTA: The Fallen Tower: Las Vegas, p. 21
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 MTA: Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council, p. 35
  16. ↑ MTA: Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council, p. 36
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 MTA: Manifesto: Transmissions from the Rogue Council, p. 37
  18. ↑ MTA: Book of Mirrors: The Mage Storytellers Guide, p. 131
  19. ↑ MTA: Dragons of the East, p. 121
  20. ↑ MTA: Dead Magic, p. 18
  21. ↑ MTA: Dragons of the East, p. 17
  22. ↑ WTA: Werewolf: The Apocalypse Revised Edition, p. 54
  23. ↑ WTA: Tribebook: Bone Gnawers Revised, p. 14
  24. ↑ WTA: Book of the Weaver, p. 20
  25. ↑ WTA: Ratkin, p. 24
  26. ↑ MTA: Mage: The Ascension Second Edition, p. 48
  27. ↑ MTA: Mage Storytellers Companion, p. 7


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