Garou glyph for 'enemy'.
'Estranged' is a title bestowed upon any werewolf with the capacity to be Garou (therefore excluding Stolen Moons) that is nevertheless considered with hostility by the true Garou. In the Era of Apocalypse, the term is generally applied to any werewolf not part of the 11 'accepted' tribes that are still willing to cooperate with those outside their number on a widespread basis.
Wayward[]
The 'primary' estranged, more often called the 'wayward', consists of the three tribes that abandoned the Garou Nation (admission to which was previously the metric by which one was judged as Garou) prior to its fall. Though the splits are definite, with no sign of reunion in sight, connections to Garou society can still be found with the estranged tribes that were once part of the Nation. Certain septs saw warning signs before a tribe departed and formed loose pacts to ensure a smoother fallout. A pack might have a former member of a lost tribe that joined the Nation while it still existed but keeps contact with their former comrades. These lines of communication are tenuous, and in some cases doomed, but some Garou hope that perhaps a sliver of solidarity survives within their lost brethren.
Wayward tribes[]
Lesser Estranged[]
When the Garou think of the breakup of the Nation, their thoughts tend to go to the great tribes like the Cult of Fenris and the Stargazers. Yet the unraveling of Garou society has occurred on the individual level too. There are lesser estranged out there, Garou who have abandoned their brethren either by choice or because they’ve been forced to, but have not rejoined any kind of formalized werewolf social structure after the fact.
If, somehow, members of the White Howlers still exist out there in the world, they would also be considered to be estranged in such a manner. The same could also be said of other lost tribes, though the existence of such things has never been brought up to the Garou beyond scattered whispers at the occasional moot. Whether or not other races of shifters count as this is mostly a matter of semantics.
Moon Cultists drift towards this categorization with each passing day, but their continued status as (for the most part) members of the eleven Garou tribes ensures their position as Garou. For now.
Estranged groups[]
References[]
- WTA: Shattered Nation, p. 116-123