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The Croatan

The Pure Ones, also referred to as the Three Brothers, were the Garou tribes of the Americas (called the Pure Lands): the Uktena, Croatans and Wendigo, or the Elder Brother, Middle Brother, and Younger Brother, respectively. Now only two persist. Middle Brother, the unwavering Croatan tribe, no longer exists. However heart-rending their demise was, it was also honorable. The Croatan surrendered themselves to drive away a powerful spirit of the Wyrm from the physical world to prevent the arrival of the Apocalypse. The cost was high, however, as the loss of an entire tribe has left the surviving tribes without critical support. And now the Apocalypse comes again.

The Croatan were called the “Middle Brother” because they walked a line of moderation between the fiery rage of the Wendigo and the reserved mysticism of the Uktena. The Croatan tempered their passions with wisdom while acknowledging the need for decisive action.

The tribal totem of the Croatan was Turtle, who blessed his followers with incredible persistence. Members of the tribe would put all their efforts into something once they set their minds to it. This also came with the flaw that the Croatan could be stubborn and inflexible, to the point where they would sometimes ignore the truth if it did not suit them. Despite their reputation for being the most balanced of the Pure Ones, the Croatan were not saints, and caused plenty of conflict with its tribal “siblings.” Finally, they were one of the more practical tribes, eschewing pretentiousness. With some notable exceptions, success rarely went to the heads of Croatan elders.

The end of the Croatan occurred in the late 16th century, when it appeared the Apocalypse was in its opening stages. Eater-of-Souls, one of the three heads of the Triatic Wyrm, was on the verge of manifesting in the physical realm, crossing from the spirit world into the material one. Every single member of the tribe assembled to take part in a ritual they knew would not kill the spirit but would injure and banish it back to whence it came. Just as the Eater-of-Souls was poised to materialize, the ceremony was completed, dealing a massive defeat to the Wyrm and its servants on that hallowed day.

The rite consumed the ancestor-spirits of the Croatan as well. Their Kinfolk either died out or married into the other tribes. Sometimes, gossip spreads of the Croatan returning, of a miracle to equal the many disasters that have befallen Gaia and her protectors. The Uktena, however, dismiss such rumors, for in all their studies of shamanism and the spirits, they have discovered nothing to suggest the Croatan could ever come back from where their souls have gone. Some losses we suffer are absolute.

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Has this been done before? Dunno. But I did it anyway.

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In 2016 I took a camping trip to the Croatan Natl. Forest in NC where they were still giving out this beautiful pamphlet from 1985 and I can’t thank them enough

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Pozdrav Suncu, Zadar 2017

Music by: Solar Fields

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Where Nothing Will Grow: The Devil's Tramping Ground

In North Carolina you will find The Devil's Tramping Ground where it is said that the Devil walks at night and because of it, nothing will ever grow there. It is also connected to the story about Croatan and the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island.

In North Carolina you will find The Devil’s Tramping Ground where it is said that the Devil walks at night and because of it, nothing will ever grow there. It is also connected to the story about Croatan and the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. In the depths of the Harper’s Crossroads area in Bear Creek, North Carolina, lies a camping spot that has become the epicenter of persistent local…

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