Forsaken Britain

Great Britain - Wolves Amongst Us

Great Britain is a small land geographically, but history has marked the land heavily and there are many secret and hidden things even with so many humans in such a small landmass. Each of the Tribes of the Moon and the People as a whole have places they hold to be more important than others, the places that Father Wolf was rumoured to have slept, where Black Wolf travelled and hunted in silence, where Fenris-Ur vented his fury. These and others are the places detailed here. Beware the night for there are wolves in the darkness.

Territories and Landmarks

• Buxton - within the Peaks a place where the People found unity to end the Brethren War on British soil
• the Cave of Secrets - a hidden place in the Other which contains wisdom or prophecy
• the Den - a sacred place in the Other
• Edinburgh - capital of Scotland, a place of conflict between Pure and Moon tribes
• Fortingall Yew - oldest tree in Britain and sacred to the Hunters in Darkness
• Foulness Island - the Abandoned Brain
• Gloucester: 25 Cromwell Street - a vile Wound in the Other
• Isle of Man - the Storm Lord home
• Isle of Wight - lair of the Wight Spiders
• Maiden Castle - traditional Eagle Warriors stronghold
• Ossuary of Learning - there was once upon a time, so stories say, a place that the Bone Shadows held for their own - this was that place.
• Ravenser Odd - a stronghold of the Breathstealer
• Sellafield - birthplace of Calder-Hall and prison of the Beast
• Sheerness - lock to the Breathstealers binding
• Skerryvore Lighthouse - testing place of the Iminir
• Spurn Head - treacherous coastline
• Tintagel - the Blood Talon fortress
• The Wrekin - a hill of harmony in Shropshire
• Wolfhill - a binding of Celestials or wild Scots wood

• The Moors; North Yorks Moors - hunting ground of the Predator Kings. See also Danby High Moor, a place sacred to the Pure.
• The Parks; Peak District, Highlands of Scotland, Yorkshire Dales - hunting ground of the Predator Kings.
• Devon and Cornwall; the Sparrowclaw Circle - the Beasts of the Moors are one of the most powerful groups of Bale Hounds in the country.

The Forsaken

(from Shadows of the UK, page 21)

The Forsaken of Britain are in a sorry state. Most of the rural territory belongs to the Pure, meaning that, for the most part, the Forsaken have been forced into the cities, in close proximity with humans. The Forsaken are disorganized and isolated. They fail to track down many of those who undergo the First Change, and find it hard to properly control territory when their main concern is the everyday business of survival.

This means that they can’t exploit the greatest resource they have — their numbers. Unlike most other parts of the world, in Britain the Forsaken outnumber the Pure. However, here the Pure have all the best territory, all the hunting grounds and all the resources. The Forsaken have nothing, and they have to live alongside people from whom they’re going to be separated all their lives, a constant reminder of their difference and their curse.

It’s like this in almost every part of the United Kingdom: the Pure have the countryside and the Forsaken have the cities. There are exceptions — there are some places in the South of England where there are Pure in urban areas (including parts of London), and there are plenty of rural Forsaken in parts of Scotland and Wales, but, for the most part, the Pure get the open spaces and the Forsaken get the claustrophobia.

Everywhere in the nation the Gauntlet is weak. Ghosts and spirits alike batter at the gates, and the Beshilu, strong and clever here, gnaw at the borders of reality. Everywhere, the holes are widening. The Shadow reaches out across the
Isles, threatening to swallow the nation completely sooner or later, and the Forsaken may be powerless to stop it.

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