The Pan-Killers were a camp among the Garou of New England that fell from grace in the early 1900s at the hands of Malachi Palys but were only wiped out fully by the Broad Brook Sept over the course of the 2000s.
Overview[]
The camp's name is a pun: Pan the god of nature, whom they say Christ killed, and "Pan," meaning "everything."
The Pan-Killers' mythos held that that they emerged in the early days of Christianity to overthrow the pagan gods, to either destroy them or reveal them as angels or demons. In actuality, they first appeared in Central Europe during the Protestant Reformation. They made their way to the US around the mid-1800s and set about killing as many spirits as they could reach.
They believed that all tribes, except a few they considered acceptable, and all spirits except the ones that swore sniveling allegiance to them, were of the Wyrm, which they identified as Satan. They were witch-finders, manhunters, slave-catchers. They cleansed whole swaths of the Spirit Wilds throughout the 19th century. The Garou exist to prevent humans from creating or birthing spiritual entities that will destroy the world. The Pan-Killers believed that those entities were false gods and pagan idols, while the truth of the growing Wyrm Ascendant evaded their attention.
They believed that in the World to Come (a concept echoed with disturbing similarity, and even sometimes outright claimed via syncretism, by the Black Spiral Dancers), all possibilities would come to fullness in God's light. One would never have to choose between one happiness and another, because they would all blossom simultaneously in a garden of perfect delights. A world without choice, where one always got what one wanted (and for that matter, every possible iteration of what one wanted!)
The Pan-Killers were an especially common camp among the Bone Gnawers, but were nevertheless multi-tribal in their membership. The last Pan-Killer, a Bone Gnawer ragabash, was killed by Graynail and Jane Lucci in the late 2000s, in Providence, Rhode Island, and his spirit was bound within the Broad Brook barrow to be tortured for eternity in silver fire.