The sixteenth through eighteenth centuries

Contact, colonial settlement, missions, disease and forced labor change the coast. New religious institutions and commercial interests arrive alongside vampires, hunters, sorcerers and other travelers.

These newcomers do not encounter an empty supernatural landscape. Some negotiate, some misunderstand what they find, and others assume that obtaining a mortal deed gives them authority over everything attached to the land.

The dead accumulate around settlements, roads and places of confinement. Some remain close to their families. Others become attached to buildings or institutions that will later change hands several times.

European fae bring their own customs and rivalries. Some repeat the assumptions of the colonists around them. Others establish arrangements with local inhabitants, although those agreements are rarely preserved accurately in later histories.

Far to the east, the Croatan’s sacrifice around Roanoke becomes a catastrophe whose consequences reach western Garou. It does not happen on the island, but its absence is felt in the responsibilities and broken relationships inherited afterward.