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Jun. 3rd, 2012 09:10 amOkay, I'm going to write out a quick sort of background/primer on the whole Uratha thing because it is pretty detailed and, if nothing else, I'll need a spot to refresh my memory on all the background.
Uratha are the children of Father Wolf and Mother Luna. Father Wolf was a powerful spirit that kept the rest of the spirits in line and punished those that misbehaved. Luna, a powerful Celestine, came down to Earth-as-Pangaea and fell in love with Father Wolf and bore him nine children, the first werewolves. They helped Father Wolf keep the spirits in line and kept the spirit world and physical world separate, and all was glorious for werewolves for a while. Then Father Wolf began to weaken and was unable to keep up his duties and, due to his personal spirit-ban that he was defenseless against someone who could take his place and desired to kill him, was not able to fight back when his children rose up to slay him.
Mother Luna, now back in her place on the moon, cursed them. The force of Father Wolf's death broke the world and destroyed the paradise they lived in, separating the physical and spiritual worlds. They went to Mother Luna for forgiveness and was half-forgiven, but still bound by some of her curse and are hurt by silver but blessed with auspices, blessings from the moon that they had their First Change under.
And basically everyone hates them (thus they are Forsaken). The tribes of the Pure, those who did not slay Father Wolf and never went to Mother Luna for forgiveness, hate them and attack them from all corners. The spirits, who they continue to patrol and attempt to control, hate them for the power they once had to kill Father Wolf and the audacity of half-physical creatures to tell them what they can do. Plus everything else that gets thrown at them, which includes their own natures as they have to find balance between human and wolf, spirit and physical creature, rationality and a shitton of rage.
So even though they have awesome healing (they can heal broken bones in a matter of minutes) and magic and all that, Uratha die young and violently.
Uratha are the children of Father Wolf and Mother Luna. Father Wolf was a powerful spirit that kept the rest of the spirits in line and punished those that misbehaved. Luna, a powerful Celestine, came down to Earth-as-Pangaea and fell in love with Father Wolf and bore him nine children, the first werewolves. They helped Father Wolf keep the spirits in line and kept the spirit world and physical world separate, and all was glorious for werewolves for a while. Then Father Wolf began to weaken and was unable to keep up his duties and, due to his personal spirit-ban that he was defenseless against someone who could take his place and desired to kill him, was not able to fight back when his children rose up to slay him.
Mother Luna, now back in her place on the moon, cursed them. The force of Father Wolf's death broke the world and destroyed the paradise they lived in, separating the physical and spiritual worlds. They went to Mother Luna for forgiveness and was half-forgiven, but still bound by some of her curse and are hurt by silver but blessed with auspices, blessings from the moon that they had their First Change under.
And basically everyone hates them (thus they are Forsaken). The tribes of the Pure, those who did not slay Father Wolf and never went to Mother Luna for forgiveness, hate them and attack them from all corners. The spirits, who they continue to patrol and attempt to control, hate them for the power they once had to kill Father Wolf and the audacity of half-physical creatures to tell them what they can do. Plus everything else that gets thrown at them, which includes their own natures as they have to find balance between human and wolf, spirit and physical creature, rationality and a shitton of rage.
So even though they have awesome healing (they can heal broken bones in a matter of minutes) and magic and all that, Uratha die young and violently.