The shadow-wolves are a possible outcome of the fate of the Broad Brook caern. They are a global phenomenon that exists to unite, protect and teach young Garou.
Overview[]
Of the three possible outcomes that may have befallen the Broad Brook caern in February 2024, one of them results in the Answering Tiger devouring the caern, only to be torn to submission by the Stormcat and pressed unwillingly into the service of Gaia.
If this outcome occurs, the ancestor spirits of all of the Broad Brook Sept's scores of Garou that have called it home since its inception in the mid-1800s emerge from the Tiger to carry on their work in death. Although the limited powers of the Answering Tiger do not allow them to take on permanent (or even long-term) bodily manifestation in the way that Eater-of-Names did, the shadow-wolves wage a war at the level where the late Black Spiral Dancer wanted to fight, at the level of information. They exist now as ideas, dreams, teachers, Kinseekers and healers. They want to teach other Garou how to fight back, how to win, how to see through the lies and the despair.
That said, whenever they get the chance, the shadow-wolves are more than willing to manifest for the sake of kicking the shit out of fomori or whatever else that threaten young Garou out of their depth.