Shattered Dreams

Shattered Dreams is a sourcebook for use with Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition, concerning the Wars of Rage.

Summary[]

From the Onyx Path catalog:

The Wars of Rage

In the mists of prehistory, the werewolves worked alongside the other Changing Breeds to safeguard Gaia against the many threats to Her existence. The werewolves’ pride and their great Rage drove them to murder their cousins, leaving two Changing Breeds extinct and Gaia's children forever broken. Millennia later, the twin lures of colonialism and conquest once again brought the shapeshifters into conflict, leading to the death of the Camazotz. Nobody knew quite what happened to spark the Wars of Rage, or what life was like when the Changing Breeds worked together, until now.

The Past Laid Bare

Shattered Dreams presents an in-depth look at the prehistory of the Changing Breeds, including both the threats they had to face before circumstances drove them to war and the War of Rage itself. Rather than one answer, it showcases many time periods and many ways in which the War could start, so that players and Storytellers can make prehistory their own. It also presents the circumstances surrounding the Second War of Rage, giving players the chance to take part, either as Garou Conquistadores or as the Fera desperately trying to fight off an invasion. Finally, the included chronicle structure allows modern characters to visit these crucial moments of history in an effort to stop the Wyrm's most powerful minions.

Shattered Dreams contains:

• The first ever look at the World of Darkness before the War of Rage.

• The ways the Wars of Rage could start, and how enterprising characters could change what happened.

• Two chronicle frameworks that bring modern characters to the past, replete with new Abilities and new Storytelling tools that make the players the center of much larger stories.

Shattered Dreams is a non-canon exploration of a wild and crazy vision of the ancient past of World of Darkness.

Contents[]

Introduction: Millenia of Rage[]

Chapter One: History's Stage[]

Two chronicles (Into the Past and Dying Dreams) that would allow modern characters to travel into the past to experience the Wars of Rage first-hand.

Dying Dreams
- The Rite of Dead Wonders - Level Five, Mystic Rite

Ability Changes
- Talents
  - Thrown (Weapons: Slings, Stones, etc.)
- Skills
  - Archery
  - Hunting
  - Ride
  - Sail
  - Territory
- Knowledges
  - Hearth Wisdom
  - Legends
  - Taboos
  - Technology (Paleolithic)

Chapter Two: The Time Before[]

Outline of Gaia's original intent for the Changing Breeds, and how they co-existed prior to the War of Rage.

Chapter Three: The War of Rage[]

Possible scenarios that could've triggered the War of Rage – and how they could've been avoided.

Chapter Four: Nightmares in the Jungle[]

Context of pre-Columbian South America and how different Fera breeds co-existed with them, until the coming of European Garou alongside the Spanish conquistadores.

Blood Rituals
- Mark of the Wyrm - Level One
- Blade of the Ancestors - Level Two
- Tongue of the Accursed - Level Three
- The Scalding Blood - Level Four
- Poison for the Undying - Level Five

Chapter Five: Other Wars[]

Description of the War of Tears, when the Garou wiped out the Bunyip, and the War of Dragons that ended the period of Mokolé rule over Earth.

War of Dragons Lexicon
Saurid Form Modifiers

Bloodline	Strength	Dexterity	Stamina	Archid Characteristic
Dinosaur	+3	+1	+2	Armor, Hugh Size, Terrible Claws
Plesiosaur	+1	+2	+3	Fins, Gills, Huge Size
Pterosaur	+1	+3	+2	Grasping Hands, Terrible Claws, Wings (allows flight in Saurid form)

Altered Traits
- Animal-Ken
- Blazonry
- Drive and Firearms
- Crafts, Science and Technology

Background Information[]

This book is non-canon, in the sense that none of the events described are definitive or necessarily compliant with other 20th Anniversary Edition books.

Memorable Quotes[]

Characters[]

Introduction: Millenia of Rage
- Tires-Screeching-On-Pavement ("Screech")
Chapter One: History's Stage
- Travels-With-The-Wind
  - Into the Past
    - Kronos - Incarna Spirit
    - Nightmaster
    - Grythyg - Black Spiral Dancer, Former Sept Leader of the Hive of the Jagged Maw, plotting her own plans
    - Jimmy Thinks-Too-Deep - Philodox Child of Gaia
    - Naanako Strikes-True - Galliard Black Fury
    - Doubts-in-the-Dark - Harpy, Bane
    - Martin Graves - Research Consultant, Endron
    - Stands-as-Stone - Past Garou, Ahroun Alpha
    - Gleam-of-Endings - Past Bagheera
    - Queen Ananasa
    - Rebecca Path-Twister - Ragabash Black Spiral Dancer
    - Lord Steel
  - Dying Dreams
    - Nameless Angel of Despair
    - Reaps-the-World - Rising Sun, Mnetic Gumagan, Defiler King
    - Will-of-All - Concealing, Mnetic Gumagan, Defiler King
    - Piercing-Ray-Claw - Midnight Sun, Mnetic Gumagan, Defiler King
    - Moves-Skies - Decorated Sun, Mnetic Gumagan, Defiler King
    - Wings-Block-the-Sun - Crowning, Mnetic Gumagan, Defiler King
    - Mnemosyne - Incarna Spirit of Memory
      - Fragments of Memory
      - Cosmos - Memory Spirit, Universe
      - Mnesis - Memory Spirit, Gaia
      - Mythos - Memory Spirit, Ancestors
      - Mantra - Memory Spirit, Names
      - Nostalgia - Memory Spirit, Lost Things
      - Satori - Memory Spirit, Links Between Memories
      - Lethe - Memory Spirit, Denial
    - Bathes-in-Burning-Blood - Past Mokolé
    - Generous-Gift - Past Khara, the last Khara
    - Whistle-Tends-the-Sky - Past Corax
    - Seven-Shadows-Dancing - Past Kitsune
    - Ignorant-Worm - Past Ahroun Garou, Hengeyokai
    - Sleeps-Beneath-the-Sand - Past Decorated Sun Mokolé
    - Unyielding-Stone - Past Garou Prince, Rules Sept of Locked Horns, Dies
Chapter Two: The Time Before
- GrrBrool Bites-the-Tail
- Thrice-Blessed-Ghost - White Hunter Garou, Elder, Alpha
Chapter Three: The War of Rage
- Cailean Walks-with-Wind
- Begs-for-Luna - Past Theurge Garou
- Claws-of-Woe - Past Ragabash Garou
- Peak-of-Purity - Past Simba Queen
- Sunset-Ends - Past Mokolé
- Running-Hunger - Past Gurahl
- Breathes-of-Dust - Past Swara
- Steps-with-Spiders - Past Ragabash Garou
- Sees-Moonlight - Past Simba Queen, Killed in Steps-with-Spiders' frenzy
- Lore-of-Wood - Past Ananasi
- Third-Sea - Past Nagah
- Grace-of-Luna - Past Bagheera
- Shining-Healer - Past Camazotz
- Moves-the-River - Past Makara Mokolé
- Beautiful-Ancestor - Past Ananasi, Wyrm-fallen
- Rainbow-at-Dawn - Past Gumagan Mokolé
- Heart-of-Storms - Past Gumagan Mokolé
- Mighty-River - Past Ahroun Garou
- Granite-Horn - Past Apis Elder, Slain by Ice-Eye
- Ice-Eye - Past Garou
- Shining-Fang - Past Khara
- Strength-of-Bears - Past Khara, Shining-Fang's pride-mate, feasted on by Storm-of-Red
- Sees-the-Mist - Past Camazotz
- Storm-of-Red - Past Ahroun Garou
- Carries-the-Moon - Past Simba, Usurps-the-River-Den's Sibling
- Usurps-the-River-Den - Past Simba, Carries-the-Moon's Sibling
- Puzzle-Sifter - Past Qualmi
- Judges-Rain - Past Nuwisha
- Thunder-Belly - Past Philodox Garou
- Stalking-Snow - Past Simba
- Feather-Tail-Roar - Past Mokolé
- The-Stone-Erodes - Past Mokolé
- Know-Me - Past Simba, the first Ceilican
- Sea-Circler - Past Corax
- Blood-Eye - Past Ahroun Garou
- Scent-of-Fire - Past Galliard Garou
- Blur-of-Mind - Past Camazotz
- Bright-Tears - Past Corax
- Bellows-the-Sun - Past Apis
- Luna's-Shadow - Past Ragabash Garou
- Sings-for-Food - Past Ratkin Bard, Dies
- Whisper-of-Rain - Past Ratkin Bard, Dies
- Cries-in-Spring - Past Ratkin Bard, Dies
- Teeth-of-the-Endless - Past Dimwater Rokea, Dies
- Head-Hides-the-Sun - Past Grondr
- Might-of-Judgment - Past Nagah
- Shadow-of-Wolf - Past Galliard Garou
- Winter's-Ending - Past Gurahl
- Roaring-Nose - Past Mokolé
- Short-Fury - Past Apis, Dies
- Howl-of-Thunder - Past Philodox Garou
- Star - Past Human Maiden, Dies
- Sky-Steppe - Past Apis, Dies
- Small-Tail - Past Theurge Garou
- Heart-of-Glory - Past Ahroun Lupus Garou, Dies
- Fangs-of-Luna - Past Garou, High Chief of Sunrise Mountain Sept
- Finds-the-Valley - Past Ragabash Garou
- Worthy-of-Luna's-Love - Past Galliard Garou, Dies to Graceful-Speaker's poison
- Shining-in-Shadows - Past Corax
- Graceful-Speaker - Past Nagah
- Giant-Jaw - Past Ahroun Garou
- Whispered-Truth - Past Camazotz
- Pride-Queen - Past Simba, aka Sakhmet
- Butcher-at-Sunrise - Past Garou, Unyielding-Stone's father, Sept of Crescent Moon
- Forever-Stands -Past Garou King, Butcher-at-Sunrise's nephew, Sept of Stone Naming
- Harvest-of-Secrets - Past Bubasti
- Sharp-Point - Past Bubasti
- Summer-Dreams-of-Life - Past Gurahl, Dies
- Trample-Bane - Past Grondr
- Wyrmslayer - Past Theurge Garou, forges the first klaives of bronze and silver
- Screams-of-Foe - Past Philodox Garou
- Big-Tusk - Past Grondr
- Deadly-Glance - Past Mokolé
- Slender-Leg - Past Ananasi
- Lightning-Cracks-Marrow - Past Ajaba matriarch
- Speaks-No-Lies - Past Corax
- Rides-the-Avalanche - Past Gurahl Grandmother
- Star-of-Heaven - Past, Last Apis, aka Asterion and Minotaur
- Bristle-Grows - Past Grondr, Last of the Grondr, Corpse becomes the first of the Skull Pigs
- Oak-Leaper - Past Grondr, Last of the Grondr, Corpse becomes the first of the Skull Pigs
- Sings-of-Luna - Past Camazotz, Last Camazotz
- Pleasing-Thunder - Shadow Lord, Killed the last Camazotz
- Humble-in-Duty - Past corrupt Nagah, aka Vinata
- Revered-Ancestor - Ten Thousand Immortal, Past
- Sagacious-Tongue-of-Flame - Past Mokolé
- Invoked-Honor - Past Tengu, Dies
- Distant-Sky - Past Khan
- Beautiful-Mother - Nezumi Queen
- Sunset-Roar - Past Khan
- Three-Rock-Eyes - Past Kumo
- Resplendent-Sun-Through-Leaves - Past Zhong Lung, Mokolé
- Whispering-Bamboo - Past Okuma, Died
- Stillwater-Running - Past Nagah
- Bites-the-Moon - Past Same-Bito
- Respected-Song-of-Tigers - Ten Thousand Immortal
- Valiant-Sapling - Past Kitsune
- Mountain-Sage-Brother - Past Okuma
- Runs-the-Wind - Past Hakken
- Sacred-Day - Past Tengu
- August Personage of Jade
- Auspicious-Divinity-of-Storms - Ten Thousand Immortal
Chapter Four: Nightmares in the Jungle
- John "Molten Banished"
- Samuel Haight
- Ichtaca
- Breeder-of-Pox - Past Homid Ratkin
- Song-of-the-Western-Peaks - Past Shadow Lord Theurge
- Paints-with-Words - Past Shadow Lord
- Chases-Thunder - Past Garou Theurge
- Cleaves-the-World - Past Shadow Lord
- Dark-Claw-of-Vengeance
- Greed-of-the-World - Bane
Chapter Five: Other Wars
- Henry R. Moore III
- Sings-of-Silence - Past Nagah
- Mokee - Past Bunyip
- Charlie "Billyclub" Wilson - Past Bone Gnawer
- Raymond Love-of-the-Goddess
- Wise-of-Gaia - Past Get of Fenris
- Sings-With-The-Moon - Past Uktena Theurge
- Garrayung Tear-Catcher - Past Bunyip Ahroun
- George "Do-Good" Robinson - Past Child of Gaia
- Amber-Dreaming
- Jumps-the-Fence - Amber-Dreaming's packmate, killed by Red Talons
- Jane Drinks-Dry - Corax
- Ced Booming-Fire-Laugh - Gumagan Mokolé
- Nomad-Sun - Past Dragon King
- New-Spring - Past Dragon King, Many-Colored Masters Clutch, Warchief
- No-Eggs-Mother - Past Unshading Sun Dragon King
- White-Bark - Past Dragon King, General
- Vermillion-Tail - Past Dragon King Envoy
- Waits-in-Mire - Past Dragon King Strategist
- Old-Dreams-New - Feathered Emperor of Alsepéak, Past Dragon King
- Many-Words - Gathering Sun, Past Dragon King, Many-Colored Masters Clutch
- Waits-for-Sun - Past Dragon King, Warchief
- All-Eyes-Beast - Past Ananasi
- Lonely-Peak - Past Dragon King, Alsepéaki assassin
- Joy-Hunter - Past Dragon King, Leader
- Dreams-Strong - Past Shading Dragon King, Wonder-Wonder, Living Kingdom of Sails
- Grand-Maw - Past Dragon King, claims to be the lost Alsepéak heir
- Clutch-Rend the Lord of Rotted-Hill, "The Poison King" - Past Dragon King

Terminology[]

Dragon War Lexicon: Archid, Bête, Clutch, Drachid, Dragons, Dragon Kings, Memetics, Mnesis, Saurid, Streams, Wonder-Workers; Bane: Harpy, Nocturnae, Scrag, Kalus, Dream Makers; Fera: Ao, Apis (Hengeyokai: Hàosè-ji), Ajaba, Camazotz (Bat, Colony, Blood Rituals, Hengeyokai: Yè-Shào), Grondr (Sounders, Hengeyokai: Yezhu Yao), Bastet (Khan, Bagheera, Bubasti, Balam, Den-Realm, Ceilican, Qualmi, Selene, Swara, Simba (Lion), Yava, Khara (Rite of Future-Telling/Rite of Tomorrow's Memory)), The Festival of Change (Gathering), Kitsune, Bunyip (Guardians of the Ways; Ngalyod, the Rainbow Serpent, Yahwie), Ananasi (Sylie, Kumo, Crawlering, Lilian, Pithus), Garou (Croatan (Turtle), Hakken, White Howlers; Early Garou Tribes: The Children of Winter, Moon's Litter, Desert Wind; New Early Garou Tribes: The White Hunters (Fianna, Get of Fenris, White Howlers), The Hounds of Gaia (Children of Gaia, Glass Walkers), Litany Singers (Black Furies, Shadow Lords), Chosen of Gaia (Red Talons, Silver Fangs), Wind Runners (Bone Gnawers, Silent Striders), Three Brothers (Croatan, Uktena, Wendigo)), Corax (Tengu), Mokolé (Varna, Makara, Gumagan, Wallow, Zhong Lung), Gurahl (Buri-Jaan, River Keepers, Glade, Okuma, Death Bear), Ratkin (Bards, Boltholes, Freak Aspects, Nezumi), Nuwisha (Umbral Danser), Nagah (Vasuki), Rokea (Dimwater, Slew, Same-Bito, Squamus, Glabrus, Gladius, Chasmus); War of Rage, Apocalypse, Harano, War of Tears, Abyss, Maw, The Hive of the Jagged Maw, Triat, Eater-of-Souls, Pentex, Fomori, Sokhta, Hive, Helios, Wyrm's Maw, Luna, War of Sorrow, Neuro-Dynamic Laboratories, Impergium, Wyld, Weaver, Wyrm, Moon Bridge, Endron Oil (Environmental Rehabilitation subdivision), First Team, Gaia, Umbra, Gauntlet, Black Spiral Dancers, Kinfolk (Kyphur), Hungry Ghost, Malfeas, Second War of Rage, Xibalan, Maeljin Incarna, Cahlash, Histpah, Banestorm, Lune, Innocents, Mnetics, Calumn of Despair, Penumbra, The Defiler Kings, Deep Umbra, Essence, Dragon Empires, Dissolver, Near Umbra, Rite of the Glorious Past, Gathering for the Departed, Muses (Totems), Battleground, Legendary Realm, Atrocity Realm, Ancestor-Spirit, Pangaea, Fimbulwinter, Concord, War of Shame, Beast Courts, Incarna, Garou Nation, Pack, Pride, Hengeyokai (Ferocious People), Pattern Spiders, Caern, Delirium, Sea, Rite of Moon Bridge, Beast-of-War, Wyrm-Frenzy, Defiler Wyrm, Wonder-Work, Weaver's Wall, Mountain-That-Was-Not, Twin-Moon Caern, Two-Rivers Caern, Caern of Knocking Trees, Fae, Realm, Sunrise Mountain Sept, Grand Moot, Sept of Sunlit Apples, Qyrl, Undersea, Oversea, Sea's Soul, Unsea, Black-Chalk Caern, Litany, Rite of Summoning Sea, Frenzy, Turning Speech Caern, Stag, Ritemaster, Gold, Silver, Sept of the Thunderbolt, Wyrm-taint, The Silver Crusade, Sept of Locked Horns, Sept of Crescent Moon, Falcon, Sept of Stone Naming, Caern of Luna's Love, Battle of Sunset-Stream, Sept of Husks, Vampire, Ten-Thousand Immortals, Mountain Realm, Centipede, Dragon Nest, Akuma, Court of Seven Blessings, Hell of Burrowing Maggots, Peach and Chestnut Nest, Emerald Mother, Ten-Thousand Demons, Tenochtitlan, Lake Texcoco, Jaguar Skin Dancers, Rite of Sacred Rebirth, Peru, Grotto, Caribbean, Hispaniola, La Navidad, Spain, France, Italy, "The Great Pox", Amazon, Tzimisce, Unspoiled Lands, Pure Lands, Promise of the Pure Lands/Pure Lands Rhetoric, California, Central American, Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, South America, North America, New Spain, Mage, Dream-speakers, Domain, Gangrel, Leech, Mexico, Veracruz, Mexico City, Canary Islands, Bahamas, Caern of Gaia's Rebirth/Caern of Gaia's Blessing, Asia, Australia, Africa, Potosí, Grandfather Thunder, Florida, Madison Mining Group (Pentex Subsidiary), Europe, Tremere, War of Dragons, Dreaming Tracks, Songlines, Uluru, Dreaming, Tasmania, Pararri-kurruwarri Caern, Dreamtime, Honeybee Sting Pack (Black Furies), England, Kangaroo Island, Kingscote, London, Sydney, Bushwhackers Pack (Garou), Brisbane, Melbourne, Queensland, Enlightened-Dust Pack (Stargazers), Uktena, Vandemonian Sept, Flinders Island, Kurdaitcha, Aetherial Realm, Airt, Kata Tjuta, Homeland, Cape York, Wiradjuri, Mount Tamborine, Papua New Guinea, Stepping Sideways, Mnesis Realm, El-Khaataar (First City and Empire), T'Kash, Eclipsed Suns, Empire of Alsepéak, Palace of Shining-Waters, The Living Kingdom of Sails, Gondwana, Age of Kings, Unshading Sun, Imperial Armies, Colors-Under-Sunlight (Village), Many-Colored Masters (Old-Dreams-New's Children, Clutch), Gathering Sun, Decorated Sun, Siege Dragons, Shield Beasts, Curse Stones (Gold and Silver), Cut-Rock-Den, Colony Beast, Shading Sun, Dragon Empires, Bright-Waters, Many-Cares (Camp), Long-Stream, Rotted-Hill, The Garden, Wonder-Work of the Wyrm,

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