Garou General Info and Auspices - Lunar Origins

Garou is a term used by the werewolves and other werebeasts to identify their race and culture. The term is used nearly interchangeably with Garou Nation. According to their own mythology, the Garou were designed to be Gaia's fangs and claws and they are quite adept at this.
Werewolves cannot breed among themselves to preserve their lineage; their blood is too potent, and the result is always a deformed Metis. To continue their bloodlines, werewolves must mate with humans and wolves.
However, the chance that any children or cubs that result from such a pairing will breed true is small. However, if a Garou mates with another Garou and the offspring survives, it presents itself as a serious problem for the Garou Society. In order to protect the folk, the child has to be killed.
Werewolves born to human families are initially indistinguishable from their mortal siblings. There is no detectable "Garou gene" and DNA testing does not reveal anything amiss. Newborn werewolves simply appear to be normal humans or wolves in almost every respect. Only a very few are even told by their parents that werewolves exist at all. However, young werewolves are prone to strange dreams and fits of temper that alienate them from their relatives or friends.
Garou adhere to the Litany, a code which depicts the laws of the Garou Nation. The place of each individual Garou is dictated by the moon phase under which he or she is born. There are five Auspices that mandate a Garou's function within werewolf society.