Americas (cWOD)

Werewolf: The Apocalypse
See:
 * Croatan
 * Uktena
 * Wendigo
 * Balam
 * Pumonca
 * Qualmi

Timeline

 * 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. Finger Lakes of upstate New York are, according to Garou formed when Gaia reaches down, scoops out corruption from the area, and sanctifies it.


 * 20,000-30,000 years ago: Wendigo, Uktena, and Croatan cross the Bering Land Bridge with early Amerindians. 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. The Three Brothers build a sacred mound where the bridge was and destroy most of the remaining corruption in the Americas. The Garou leadership serves to lessen the Delirium in Amerindians. 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. The totem of the Wendigo changes from Sasquatch to Wendigo.


 * Prehistory (cWOD)|13000 BCE]]: A group of Paleo-Indians hunt mastodon, bison, woolly mammoth and caribou in the Las Vegas valley.


 * August 13, 3114 BCE: According to the Mayans, a "creation event" happens on this date. Their Long Count calendar counts the number of days from this date. NOTE: The Long Count calendar begins counting from August 11th, not August 13. We have let this stand as-is, assuming the Mayans did things slightly differently in the World of Darkness.


 * 150 CE: The Mexican city of Cuicuilco is destroyed by an erupting volcano.


 * Early 200s CE: The Mayans practice personal sacrifice in order to perform magic.


 * 200s CE: During this century, Croatan fully destroy the Adena mound-building culture in the Ohio Valley.


 * 300 CE-400 CE: The Anasazi pictorial records indicate non-Anasazi humanoids; likely visitors.


 * 500 CE: Classical period of Guatemalan Mayan city-states begins. Some of the “gods” to whom blood was given may have been vampires. Other city-states revere Bastet of the Balam tribe.


 * Late 800s CE: Leif Ericsson comes to North America. It's debatable if he brought Life-mages with him.


 * 986: Bjarni Herjulfson, a Viking Kinfolk of the Corax, gets lost, and sees the New World for the first time, although he does not disembark. He does inform the Corax of what he has seen, however.


 * 900 CE: Sometime during this century, a Viking settlement is established somewhere on the island of Newfoundland, and a few Fenrir made the journey as well. Conflict quickly arose between the Fenrir and native Garou, and the settlement didn't last more than a few decades. Stories say that some of the Get remained and bred into native populations, giving rise to Ymir's Sweat.


 * 11th century: Classical period of Guatemalan Mayan city-states ends, having begun in the 500s. Some of the “gods” to whom blood was given may have been vampires. Other city-states revere Balam Bastet.


 * 1002 Leif Ericson’s navigator, a Corax named Einarr Flies-Like-Smoke, joins Ericson’s expedition in order to steer him away from the Pure Lands, at the behest of the New World Corax. However, a storm forces him to steer the ship to the safety of American shores. Einarr eventually feels that he has no choice but to help Ericson, who eventually visits the areas that Bjarni Herjulfson described. Ericson returns home a hero, but Einarr is derided among the Corax for his failure.


 * 1150: The Anasazi civilization suddenly vanishes, all of them having Ascended.


 * 1189: Wendigo tribe destroys the polluted and tainted pre-Columbian city of Cahokia, in what is now modern Illinois, against the wishes of the Croatan. Tribal relations are strained between the Three Brothers.

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