Chronicle of the Sept of Sleeping Lore

Character generation stuff

When we begin....

... you will have gone through first change sometime in the last year or two (depending on breed and origin, etc), and either been found by members of Sleeping Lore, or shifted to this sept for some reason after being found by another sept. You have been kind of apprenticed to learn the basics of being a garou (unless you are a metis and kind of already know), but until you have gone through the Rite of Passage, been recognised as Rank 1, and formed a pack, you're not really an adult or part of the garou society.

You will have met all the other characters in that time, and agreed to form a pack with them. You don't need to agree all the time, but you need to be at least vaguely compatible - other packs would adopt random new members as time goes on, so there has to be some reason that you decide to bond with these other lunatics rather than joining the npc packs.

The story opens with the characters beginning to undergo the Rite of Passage

Things I will say no to

Homid/surviving/male Red Talon/WhiteHowler/Black Fury or equivalent rule-breaking characters.
Non-garou shapeshifters. Actually, no non-Garou
Child werewolves - minimum character age of 16 please, and I suggest that you go with 18+ unless you've got a good idea for a younger character.
Reluctant werewolves or pack members - none of this sulking off without the rest of the pack as the default action.
Pack members who are diametrically opposed and are going to at each other's throats all the time - don't make a misogynistic racist if you know there's going to be an archetypical black fury and child of gaia pcs. The pack has come together mostly voluntarily, so they should be able to work together. Doesn't mean no conflict, just nothing that's going to be painful all the time.

Things I will say yes to

Well, actually, that's lots of things, but these are things that previously people have assumed might be an issue.

Characters who are related to one another.
Tribes outside of the common sept tribes (see below)
Famous characters, characters known to police - bear in mind that both these things may cause you issues :) but they can be part of the game

things I am happy to see, but only if the players want to

Making up all the characters in a group rather than off on your own. Or at least putting the finishing touches on the pcs in a group - especially in terms of what has happened since your first change.
A perfect pack - one each of each auspice. :) Not a requirement! just can be easier to cover the spread of auspice abilities vs having 3 galliards

Auspice

Auspice info

Tribe

Quick tribe listing and some character concepts

The sept is a mixed-tribal sept, but there are tribes for whom it makes more sense for them to be around.

Bone Gnawers	Peachy keen. Its a bonegnawer dominated sept.
Glasswalkers, Stargazers	Why this sept specifically? These tribes have a lot to do with this sept, but its a strange one for their tribe in some ways. Why are you here rather than another more usual sept?
Fianna, Shadowlords, Children of Gaia, Children of Gaia, Silverfangs	Why not a nearish tribal sept? These tribes will fit ok, but there are other semi-local options for them. Why not with the other Fianna or Children of Gaia? Why slumming with Bone Gnawers rather than a member of a Shadowlord or SilverFang sept. You need to explain in your character background why you're at Sleeping Lore - it can be for positive or negative reasons :)
Silent Striders, Black Furies, Get of Fenris	No, really, why on earth would you be there? The striders travel a lot, why are you stopping here? Why would you leave the Wyld places of the Furies for a city? Why would you come to this Sept of weaklings instead of being strong with the Fenrir?
Red Talons, Uktena, Wendigo	Just no*

* unless your idea is amazing and explains why you are in a city / working with these garou / so far from tribal traditional lands

Tribe membership is part genetic, part cultural and part spiritual - you can be born a garou from unknown parents, raised as one tribe and later find that your parents were from a different tribe, for instance. You need to be a garou, be accepted by the tribe elders and be accepted by the tribe totem.

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