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== History ==
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=== Native Period (pre-1776) ===
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== Native Period (pre-1776) ==
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A single pack known as the ''[[Mist Walkers]]'' patrolled the peninsula. The Shadow was dominated by the [[Court of the Mist]], a brood of spirit connected to the bay and its environs.
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The entire peninsula was originally the territory of a Yelamu pack of Predator Kings called the Mist-Walkers, an extension of the Mountain Kings pack in the Santa Clara Mountains and part of a larger confederacy of Pure in the Bay Area centered on the powerful locus on Mount Diablo.
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=== Spanish Period (1776-1822) ===
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The ''[[Mist Walkers]]'' fought the Spanish incursion into their territory, driving off any Hispanic Uratha who came or underwent First Change. They were taken in by a small pack of Predator Kings on the north side of the bay who called themselves the ''[[Lords of the Mist]]''.
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== Spanish Period (1776-1822) ==
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=== Mexican Period (1822-1847) ===
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The arrival of the Spanish also brought a small pack of Storm Lords who belonged to the Brotherhood of the Crossed Swords, who settled near to the new Mission and named themselves [[:Category:Caballeros de los Dolores|Caballeros de los Dolores]], after the lake there. They fought an uphill battle against the Pure, outnumbered and surrounded, but managed to survive mostly by helping take part in the decimation and enslavement of the local indigenous population.
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As their people died out, the ''[[Mist Walkers]]'' began to recruit from the other tribes. Also, as interbreeding became more frequent, the lines between the natives and Hispanics blurred, leading to a gradual cessation of hostilities but only after several outbreaks of open violence and revolt.
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=== Barbary Coast (1847-1906) ===
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== Mexican Period (1822-1847) ==
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All remaining differences were forgotten in the chaos of the Gold Rush and the years that followed. The ''[[Mist Walkers]]'' pack split twice in this period along tribal lines, with the Uratha desparate to keep up with the new spirits and loci appearing every day. Disease spirits ran rampant while spirits of greed, gold, and violence moved back and forth across the Gauntlet unimpeded. The raging fires gave birth to a powerful spirit which allied with a newly formed Pure pack of Russian descent called the ''[[Servants of the Great Fire]]''. For years, the Forsaken and Pure warred amidst the wreckage of a ravaged Shadow San Francisco.
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The Mexican War of Independence cut the Mission pack off from its allies and resources, but the damage done to the Pure wolf-blooded in the area had taken their toll on the Predator Kings. In retaliation, they began to abduct members of the [[:Category:Aguirres|Aguirre]] family for breeding purposes. The fighting between both sides almost led to the extinction of both packs but for the onset of the Gold Rush in 1847.
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=== Reconstruction (1906-1950) ===
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The war came to a head when the ''[[Servants of the Great Fire|Servants]]'' coordinating with the ''[[Lords of the Mist]]'' to rouse the [[Earth Dragon]]. During the aftermath of the resulting earthquake, the three Forsaken packs were decimated but the ''[[Lords of the Mist]]'' were driven back across the bay and Fire-Touched were thought to be exterminated. As the city was rebuilt, the remaining Uratha reformed the old ''[[Mist Walkers]]'' pack and agreed to put aside racial, cultural, and ideological differences to dedicate themselves to defending the city. Unfortunately, as time passed an ideological schism split the pack with the dissenters calling themselves the ''[[Iron Dragons]]''. The Shadow also saw a reorganization with the rise of two courts, the [[Court of the Phoenix]] and the [[Court of the Dragon]]. The former was led by the spirit of the city and contained those spirits dependant upon it, while the latter formed around the [[Earth Dragon]] and contained spirits dedicated to the city's destruction.
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== Barbary Coast (1847-1906) ==
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=== Counterculture (1950-1980) ===
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The Gold Rush brought three new wolf-blooded families and their packs to the newly minted city: the [[:Category:MacLellans|MacLellans]], Scottish Ivory Claws with money who settled on the fashionable Nob Hill; the [[:Category:Phelans|Phelans]], poor Irish Iron Masters who claimed territory in the rough and tumble Barbary Coast; and the [[:Category:Jins|Jins]], Chinese Bone Shadows who established themselves in the rapidly forming Chinatown. The three packs fought viciously for control of the heart of the new city, Pure and Forsaken alike, and also managed to establish themselves through their kin as financial powers. The MacLellans bought up vast swaths of real estate in the heart of the city, the Phelans took up banking and made a fortune off of prospectors, and the Jins established close ties to the Six Companies. Towards the end of the century, the Phelan family split with a contingent moving out to the Great Sand Waste in order to use the new park as a foothold to taking the territory from the Pure. Bloody conflict continued until the Predator Kings decided to end the whole matter by waking the spirit of earthquakes that slumbers beneath the city.
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Two Ivory Talons packs formed in the city, ''[[The Setting Sun]]'' and the ''[[Street Lords]]''. The former was founded by a local Neo-Nazi recruited by the ''[[Servants of the Great Fire]]'' and the latter was organized by Pure packs in Los Angeles. The Forsaken were able to drive the Pure away from the core of the city, but they remained on the periphery, digging in and securing territories until the city expanded to include them. Attempts by the Forsaken to uproot them were sabotaged by the need to police the spirits being spawned by the new radicalism and the backlash against it, including a resurgence of the old spirits of bigotry, fear, and hatred that were suppressed after the earthquake.  A new pack finally ended up forming, called the ''[[Caballeros Dolores]]'', to police the borders along the south side of the city. Later, the ''[[Keepers of Alcatraz]]'' pack formed during the Indian occupation of the island in order to deal with its significant spiritual blight.
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=== Decline (1980-1990) ===
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== Reconstruction (1906-1950) ==
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The outbreak of AIDS leads to a resurgence in the power of plague spirits as well as an infestation of Rat Hosts which the Pure use to their advantage, feeding power to the [[Earth Dragon]] resulting in another major earthquake. The event revealed the ''[[Servants of the Great Fire]]'' were continuing to plot the destruction of the city and the Forsaken. Conflict never escalated past small skirmishes with all of the other distractions. Eventually, the disease spirits are mostly contained but the Rat Host infestation is deep and, though a few major nests are destroyed, there are assumed to be more. In response to the outbreak, a new pack called the ''[[High Sentry]]'' formed of homosexual members of the other four packs.
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The Great Earthquake of 1906 and the resultant fire razed the city, killing several Uratha either directly or through the spiritual turmoil that accompanied it. When the dust settled, the MacLellans and Phelans both tried to use their influence to push the Jins out of Chinatown, but the powerful spirit of that community assisted them and they retained their home, though they were being increasingly hurt by the Chinese Exclusion Act. The newly reborn spirit of the city established a strong alliance with the Phelans, blaming the MacLellans for the destruction of the city and being soured on the Jin by their alliance with its rival, Chinatown. During the rebuilding, a Fire-Touched family called the [[:Category:Hellstroms|Hellstroms]] claimed Little Scandanavia and brought with them [[:Category:Church of the Lighthouse|Church of the Lighthouse]], which used charity and welfare to insinuate itself into the mortal population below the radar of the resident packs. The Predator Kings were driven back into the mountains and ceased to have a presence in the city.
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=== Dot-Com Boom (1990-2000) ===
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The rise of the internet led to the formation of a new spirit court, the [[Silicon Court]], as the Shadow was flooded with computer and data spirits. Their rapid rise led to a brief cessation of hostilities between the existing courts as areas of influences shifted and individual spirits tried to assess where they stood in the new landscape. During this time, the Uratha shored up their boundaries and territories solidified into the form they are in today.
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== Counterculture (1950-1980) ==
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=== Present (post-2000) ===
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The three decades following the end of the Second World War represented a boom in the werewolf population of San Francisco. Several new packs established themselves in the growing city and a few allied themselves with the existing ones. The [[:Category:Aguirres|Montillos]] settled in the Mission and swore fealty to the old [[:Category:Aguirres|Aguirre]] pack, the [[:Category:Sangre de Reyes|Sangre de Reyes]] line of Ivory Claws settled in Little Manila, and several new Chinese packs settled throughout the Bay Area joined the new Protectorate of the Golden Mountain, led by the Jins and solidified through several arranged marriages. Also during this period, the urban Shadow saw significant disruption as a flood of new spirits formed and the turmoil of the 60s and 70s caused the formation of new loci and wounds throughout the city.
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The Dot-Com bust had very little effect on the Shadow other than to introduce some more spirits of despair, decay, and fear. The [[Silicon Court]] was already established and the prevalance of computers and high-technology meant that it was thriving and had a reach that was global. The Uratha's local focus meant that they had little in common with the court, as a whole, though dealings with individual spirits were established. With the spirit world relatively calm for the moment, the simmering hostilities between the Forsaken and Pure threaten to erupt into outright war for the first time in a century.
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== Decline (1980-1990) ==
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The relative peace between Pure and Forsaken began to strain as the city entered a period of decline and AIDS, poverty, and homelessness darkened the spiritual landscape. As the decade wore on, the Tribes of the Moon began to catch wind of a scheme being perpetrated by the subtle Fire-Touched of the city. In 1989, war broke out abruptly when a series of events clued the Forsaken in to the full extent of these plans: the waking of the [[Big One]] and the unleashing of the [[Great Fire]]. The Castro war consisted of three battles. The first was the '''Battle of Glen Canyon''', when the Forsaken war party was ambushed and routed by Predator Kings from the mountains due to the betrayel of [[Chucho Zappetillo|Jesus Zappetillo]]. The second was the '''Battle of the Burning Night''' which consisted of three parts: another Predator King ambush of the [[:Category:Sons of Heaven|Sons of Heaven]] pack in Sunset, an attack on the Fire-Touched locus in the Castro by the Phelans, and the summoning and binding of The Great Fire by the Mission pack with the assistance of [[Grandfather Jiang]]. In the end, the Tribes of the Moon prevailed but sustained massive losses and the Shadow of the Castro was razed to dust by the Fire-Touched ritemaster, [[Phillip Hellstrom]]. The third battle was '''Tess' Descent''', when [[Aunt Tess]] descended into the Beshilu nest beneath the Castro alone to kill the Plague King.
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=== Castro War Death Toll ===
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Referred to as "The Twelve", all were awarded postmortem renown and are honored on the anniversary of the earthquake.
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*Ignacio Aguirre - Alpha of the Caballeros, killed during the Battle of Glen Canyon
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*Victor McShane - Beta of the Silver Kings, killed during the Battle of Glen Canyon
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*Kim Keegan - Member of the Tree-Speakers, killed during the Battle of Glen Canyon
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*Wu Jin - Beta of the Golden Mountain, killed during the Battle of Glen Canyon
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*Jiang Jin - Member of the Golden Mountain, killed during the Battle of Glen Canyon
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*Eduardo Montillo - Ritemaster of the Caballeros, killed by the [[Great Fire]] during the shackling ritual
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*Liam Keegan - Beta of the Tree-Speakers, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
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*Miles Keegan - Member of the Tree-Speakers, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
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*Robin Keegan - Member of the Tree-Speakers, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
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*Wenfu Li - Member of the Sons of Heaven, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
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*Xianyi Li - Member of the Sons of Heaven, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
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*Ruyu Wang - Member of the Sons of Heaven, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
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== Dot-Com Boom (1990-2000) ==
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The Castro War took a heavy toll on both sides and the next ten years were a period of recovery. Most of the wolf-blooded families were forced into arranged marriages with the surviving Uratha in order to replenish the packs, leading to strain and dissent. Many packs were also stretched thin, particularly given the spiritual damage done by the previous decade, and many wounds festered due to lack of attention. Unattended loci allowed many dark spirits to cross and new ridden were formed. Also, the rise of the internet saw the formation of a new spirit court whose meteoric rise to power and influence worried spirit and Uratha alike. On the bright side, the city began to pull out of its economic slump and its problems began to see some improvement.
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== Present (post-2000) ==
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Since the bursting of the dot-com bubble, some of the problems have begun to creep back in, though even more ominous to the Tribes of the Moon is the fact that its strong leadership is aging and the blood of the old families is thinning as its leaders find they have less and less influence over their descendants, particularly given the heavy-handed way they dealt with them after the Castro War. Less children with weaker blood threatens some lines with extinction.

Latest revision as of 04:58, 15 February 2008

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Native Period (pre-1776)

The entire peninsula was originally the territory of a Yelamu pack of Predator Kings called the Mist-Walkers, an extension of the Mountain Kings pack in the Santa Clara Mountains and part of a larger confederacy of Pure in the Bay Area centered on the powerful locus on Mount Diablo.

Spanish Period (1776-1822)

The arrival of the Spanish also brought a small pack of Storm Lords who belonged to the Brotherhood of the Crossed Swords, who settled near to the new Mission and named themselves Caballeros de los Dolores, after the lake there. They fought an uphill battle against the Pure, outnumbered and surrounded, but managed to survive mostly by helping take part in the decimation and enslavement of the local indigenous population.

Mexican Period (1822-1847)

The Mexican War of Independence cut the Mission pack off from its allies and resources, but the damage done to the Pure wolf-blooded in the area had taken their toll on the Predator Kings. In retaliation, they began to abduct members of the Aguirre family for breeding purposes. The fighting between both sides almost led to the extinction of both packs but for the onset of the Gold Rush in 1847.

Barbary Coast (1847-1906)

The Gold Rush brought three new wolf-blooded families and their packs to the newly minted city: the MacLellans, Scottish Ivory Claws with money who settled on the fashionable Nob Hill; the Phelans, poor Irish Iron Masters who claimed territory in the rough and tumble Barbary Coast; and the Jins, Chinese Bone Shadows who established themselves in the rapidly forming Chinatown. The three packs fought viciously for control of the heart of the new city, Pure and Forsaken alike, and also managed to establish themselves through their kin as financial powers. The MacLellans bought up vast swaths of real estate in the heart of the city, the Phelans took up banking and made a fortune off of prospectors, and the Jins established close ties to the Six Companies. Towards the end of the century, the Phelan family split with a contingent moving out to the Great Sand Waste in order to use the new park as a foothold to taking the territory from the Pure. Bloody conflict continued until the Predator Kings decided to end the whole matter by waking the spirit of earthquakes that slumbers beneath the city.

Reconstruction (1906-1950)

The Great Earthquake of 1906 and the resultant fire razed the city, killing several Uratha either directly or through the spiritual turmoil that accompanied it. When the dust settled, the MacLellans and Phelans both tried to use their influence to push the Jins out of Chinatown, but the powerful spirit of that community assisted them and they retained their home, though they were being increasingly hurt by the Chinese Exclusion Act. The newly reborn spirit of the city established a strong alliance with the Phelans, blaming the MacLellans for the destruction of the city and being soured on the Jin by their alliance with its rival, Chinatown. During the rebuilding, a Fire-Touched family called the Hellstroms claimed Little Scandanavia and brought with them Church of the Lighthouse, which used charity and welfare to insinuate itself into the mortal population below the radar of the resident packs. The Predator Kings were driven back into the mountains and ceased to have a presence in the city.

Counterculture (1950-1980)

The three decades following the end of the Second World War represented a boom in the werewolf population of San Francisco. Several new packs established themselves in the growing city and a few allied themselves with the existing ones. The Montillos settled in the Mission and swore fealty to the old Aguirre pack, the Sangre de Reyes line of Ivory Claws settled in Little Manila, and several new Chinese packs settled throughout the Bay Area joined the new Protectorate of the Golden Mountain, led by the Jins and solidified through several arranged marriages. Also during this period, the urban Shadow saw significant disruption as a flood of new spirits formed and the turmoil of the 60s and 70s caused the formation of new loci and wounds throughout the city.

Decline (1980-1990)

The relative peace between Pure and Forsaken began to strain as the city entered a period of decline and AIDS, poverty, and homelessness darkened the spiritual landscape. As the decade wore on, the Tribes of the Moon began to catch wind of a scheme being perpetrated by the subtle Fire-Touched of the city. In 1989, war broke out abruptly when a series of events clued the Forsaken in to the full extent of these plans: the waking of the Big One and the unleashing of the Great Fire. The Castro war consisted of three battles. The first was the Battle of Glen Canyon, when the Forsaken war party was ambushed and routed by Predator Kings from the mountains due to the betrayel of Jesus Zappetillo. The second was the Battle of the Burning Night which consisted of three parts: another Predator King ambush of the Sons of Heaven pack in Sunset, an attack on the Fire-Touched locus in the Castro by the Phelans, and the summoning and binding of The Great Fire by the Mission pack with the assistance of Grandfather Jiang. In the end, the Tribes of the Moon prevailed but sustained massive losses and the Shadow of the Castro was razed to dust by the Fire-Touched ritemaster, Phillip Hellstrom. The third battle was Tess' Descent, when Aunt Tess descended into the Beshilu nest beneath the Castro alone to kill the Plague King.

Castro War Death Toll

Referred to as "The Twelve", all were awarded postmortem renown and are honored on the anniversary of the earthquake.

  • Ignacio Aguirre - Alpha of the Caballeros, killed during the Battle of Glen Canyon
  • Victor McShane - Beta of the Silver Kings, killed during the Battle of Glen Canyon
  • Kim Keegan - Member of the Tree-Speakers, killed during the Battle of Glen Canyon
  • Wu Jin - Beta of the Golden Mountain, killed during the Battle of Glen Canyon
  • Jiang Jin - Member of the Golden Mountain, killed during the Battle of Glen Canyon
  • Eduardo Montillo - Ritemaster of the Caballeros, killed by the Great Fire during the shackling ritual
  • Liam Keegan - Beta of the Tree-Speakers, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
  • Miles Keegan - Member of the Tree-Speakers, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
  • Robin Keegan - Member of the Tree-Speakers, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
  • Wenfu Li - Member of the Sons of Heaven, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
  • Xianyi Li - Member of the Sons of Heaven, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night
  • Ruyu Wang - Member of the Sons of Heaven, killed during the Battle of the Burning Night

Dot-Com Boom (1990-2000)

The Castro War took a heavy toll on both sides and the next ten years were a period of recovery. Most of the wolf-blooded families were forced into arranged marriages with the surviving Uratha in order to replenish the packs, leading to strain and dissent. Many packs were also stretched thin, particularly given the spiritual damage done by the previous decade, and many wounds festered due to lack of attention. Unattended loci allowed many dark spirits to cross and new ridden were formed. Also, the rise of the internet saw the formation of a new spirit court whose meteoric rise to power and influence worried spirit and Uratha alike. On the bright side, the city began to pull out of its economic slump and its problems began to see some improvement.

Present (post-2000)

Since the bursting of the dot-com bubble, some of the problems have begun to creep back in, though even more ominous to the Tribes of the Moon is the fact that its strong leadership is aging and the blood of the old families is thinning as its leaders find they have less and less influence over their descendants, particularly given the heavy-handed way they dealt with them after the Castro War. Less children with weaker blood threatens some lines with extinction.

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