700 Years prior to this date; In locations within the Americas, Asia, Russia and the eastern European countries, wolves lived and hunted within their territory. However as Humans encroached on territorial land attacks became more and more common, geared mainly towards cattle and farm animals because of their domestic nature, however in the course of two months what we can assume to be rabies afflicted wolves all over the planet, attacks became more sporadic and violent, Humans wounded from these attacks suffered horribly, and death was not uncommon... However the victims who were women were not afflicted by the same pains as their male counter parts, instead the pain of the attack was all that remained, the pains of fevers and aches and horrendous illusions was left only to the males.
As peculiar as that was it raised no questions until a generation later as the children of these women were more passion-ed towards nature than to their own homes, far more than childhood curiosity, and to the point where animals responded without fear or angst towards these children. The Children were not feared then, rather they were respected, and used during hunts to gather meat. This was life and normal for humans and humanity, however as time passed and two generations later more and more questions were raised about these folk who could feel nature and communicate with animals, other questions were raised of why only the children of a women who was nature'd were afflicted with this gift
Jealousy rose higher and higher between regular folk, and the nature'd, however within these families, something astonishing was happening, the latest generation was amorphous, raised as Humans within human form but in the confides of their own homes they could turn into a wolf, retain their humanity but live in nature.
This fact was withed to the public, fear of course was nothing new, nor something spared. This practice of the newer generations had gone on unhindered until exploration took seed; the nature'd spent more and more time excluding themselves from their towns and villages, and more with the natural wolves, their new kin. This move was never aided by anything and it was more of curiosity that lead them to to the wolves, however this generation was one more enlightened, as the wolves and the nature'd mingled and communicated, the terrors of humanity grew more apparent, the wars, the famine caused by mass farming and natural destruction, the harm to the animals around them, humanity in its nature was destructive; and as that grew more and more apparent, the nature'd left the confides of their homes and at the same time all over the world they slowly stepped back into the wild.
This of-course wasn't the last of these amorphous people, enlightenment came at a cost, those who felt greatly that humanity was veering in the wrong direction used the strength of their forms against humans, attacks arose again like they did generations before, but not of natural wolves, this time from those that we call werewolves. The Nature'd used their form to kill and protect the wild in which they lived, and to strike down the harm humanity gave. And thus wolves were hunted, without care of empathy, wolves were now a menace; the Nature'd who once lived at peace with their communities were now subject to questions again, their were the ones who new the wild and the forests, and their alone new the truth, disclosing the cause would put themselves at risk, so they fled, the attacking werewolves and the nature'd backed into the wild once more, never to be heard of. The Nature'ds reputations were tainted, and the "werewolves" or rather wolves in general were hunted mercilessly.
And thus we are here, the actions of the past lead to a disbanding of community, of humanity, and so to live "The Hunt" was established, a simple event, a gathering of the werewolves; The term nature'd at this point is barely existent; to hunt together as a large pack, a time for mass community and shared experience, a way to hold on to the humanity that had rejected them. The 126th Hunt is about to take place, and as Werewolves gather, their story is about to be told, their struggles and victories in dealing with human life, when living as a wolf is so much easier.
[Note that Werewolves are amorphous, their bones are able to bend and break without pain, but at the cost of this, their need for food is far greater than a normal humans, senses sharper and their ability to transform is fluid and swift; Their life span is also shorter than normal, the elders only live to be around 65 at the most]
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