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[FAQ]: The First Change
Topic Started: Jun 12 2016, 05:44 AM (4 Views)
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The First Change is what makes a werewolf. Before it happens, a werewolf knows little of what they are. They know that they're frequently prone to fits of terrifying anger, and their life seems to be more strange and troubled than it should be, but they still considers themselves human. Yet when the moon hangs in the sky and the Change begins, they discover how wrong they were. The time just before the First Change is terrifying. Peculiar, inexplicable things begin to occur around the young werewolf. While they lie in bed at night, they hear whispers in a language they don't recognize but can almost understand. Squirrels and rabbits literally flee screaming in fear, while strange dogs saunter alongside them on the street, ignoring their masters’ commands. Time and space lurch. They walk for five minutes and travel five miles, or they find themselves in horrible nightmare-spaces like eternal hallways or burning buildings with no exit. In the middle of the afternoon. For no reason. And then there are the others.

They catch a glimpse of a stranger watching them, or they wake up in the dead of night to see what looks like a huge dog sitting on their lawn. Then it comes — the attack. Something that might be a dog, a wolf or even a crazy human being with too-sharp teeth knocks them down at night — maybe even in the safety of their own home — and bites deep into their flesh. The wound doesn't seem infected; in fact, it heals more quickly than it should. For days, their life breaks down. The world twists and shudders around them, and finally instinct takes over. The only escape from the wildly whirling world is to change to match it. When the First Change comes on them, their body ripples uncontrollably between all five forms. They go through partial transformations. Their face and skin might remain human while they extend an enormous bloody muzzle, or their legs might turn into weak wolf’s legs while their body’s mass remains the same. Many think they’re dying or going insane. They’re wrong. And overhead, the moon. Whatever their birth mother was like, the werewolf doesn't ever truly understand a mother’s love until they rest, weeping and exhausted, in Luna’s embrace after the First Change is complete. Then, from that point on, their soul is marked.

The phase of the moon influences the Change itself, just as it influences the werewolf’s life thereafter. A werewolf whose Change occurs under the gibbous moon might experience a flood of frightening, surreal visions that demand expression, while the full moon almost always triggers a killing rage in the werewolf whose Change occurs under its gaze. Regardless of moon phase, the First Change takes control of the werewolf, and they act on instinct until they collapse from total exhaustion. When they wake, they have more sense of identity, though that sense has… changed somewhat. Changing shape becomes a little more natural, though it takes practice at first. They have also been marked by the phase of the moon with an affinity known as an auspice, though it will take them some time to comprehend what that affinity means for them. They have been initiated through blood and moonlight into the path of the Uratha, one they will follow for the rest of their life.


Each starting Uratha will start off being an Uratha that has just gone through their First Change, or is about to be pushed into the First Change. After the cruel shift, this Uratha then picks whom to side with, the Pures or the Forsaken. After choosing their Tribe, that Uratha then goes through their Rite of Initiation for that said Tribe. In this RP, Battlemaster and Ritemaster will be trained ICly instead of being chosen and starting right off the bat at Tier 2.
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