Chains of Rage

Chronoseptic Warning: You have entered into a lorespace from an alternate timeline, remaining here for too long threatens the multiverse. Chronepsis advises you to stay alert for any potential paradoxes that may occur, and to be aware that things here may not be what they seem in the Quelmar you usually know.

Chains of Rage is an open-table Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition campaign (with snippets of lore from Werewolf: The Forsaken) run by DM Emma. It began officially on February 27, 2026. The campaign involves a pack of beginner werewolves called to the town of Clearbrook by the Heart of Blood pack to deal with spiritual corruption.

About

This campaign takes place in one of the many alternate universes separate from mainline Quelmar. In this universe, the goddess Gaia—also known as the earth mother—is dying. There is too much pollution: both environmental and spiritual. The creature ultimately responsible for this is the Wyrm, a spirit of pure entropy that fell to corruption in ages past. Gaia created werewolves as her warriors and the enforcers of her will among humans and spirits. As such, werewolves are beings that walk between two worlds: the world of flesh (the Map) and the world of spirit (the Umbra). Now, the once proud werewolves have been brought to heel. Their numbers are sparse and many of their greatest spiritual gifts have been lost. Despite this age of the apocalypse, there are still werewolves fighting to preserve what they can and stave off Gaia’s death.

Some such werewolves are those belonging to the Heart of Blood pack: a band of metal musicians and their manager who travel between regions, fighting the forces of the Wyrm where they can. They’ve recently set up camp in Clearbrook under the guise of taking a break from touring. In reality, their leader noticed that the local genetic research company, Stem Tech, was becoming a center of spiritual blight. They put out a call for assistance, and several young werewolves answered, eager to prove themselves to the rest of werewolf society. Unfortunately, the Heart of Blood pack has lost their leader, and they find themselves struggling to act in her absence. It will be up to the werewolves they’ve recruited to their cause to pick up the slack.

Player Characters

Do Not Edit Roster

Player Name	Character	Auspice	Tribe	Status
Tina (she/her)	No-body (he/him)	Ragabash	Ghost Council	Active
Manuel (they/them)	Ash “Eden” Delgado (he/them)	Galliard	Hart Wardens	Active
Nikki (she/her)	Sydney (she/her)	Ahroun	Black Furies	Active
Amia (any except he/him)	Yuzuki Mori (she/her)	Theurge	Stargazers	Active
Sean (he/him)	Tai (he/him)	Theurge	Children of Gaia	Active
Moses (any)	Silver (she/her)	Galliard	Bone Gnawers	Active
Ultralectric	Cedo	Philodox	Glass Walkers	Active

NPCs

WEREWOLVES / Do Not Edit Roster

Name	Auspice	Tribe	Occupation	Status
Ire-of-Spring	Theurge	Black Furies	Bassist of “We Eat Your Young”	Unknown
Kataleya Garcia	Theurge	Glass Walkers	Manager of “We Eat Your Young”	Active
Ifeoma Hernandez	Philodox	Black Furies	Drummer of “We Eat Your Young”	Active
Kai-Ming Zhang	Ahroun	Bone Gnawers	Lead Guitarist of “We Eat Your Young”	Active
Charlotte Badeaux	Galliard	Ghost Council	Lead Singer of “We Eat Your Young”	Active
Moon-Speaker	Irraka	Hunters in Darkness	Lunar Lycan Huntress	Active

SPIRITS / Do Not Edit Roster

Name	Rank	Allegiance	Concept	Status
Cobra	Jaggling	Heart of Blood Pack, Gorgon	Not Fully Known?	Active
Old Crow	Jaggling	Rat	Spirit of Theft & Hidden Caches	Active
M1RR0R M1RR0R	Jaggling	Spider	Spirit of Connected Fragments	Active
Figment of Eventide	???	Horned Serpent	Spirit of Dreams	Active
Dog	???	Unicorn	Spirit of Pathfinding	Active

OTHERS / Do Not Edit Roster

Name	Type	Allegiance	Status
Shiori Ando	Kitsune (Gukutsushi)	Gaia, Fox	Active
Salem Brodsky	Changeling (Boggan)	Duchy of Daydreams (Clearbrook), Seelie Court	Active
Elijah Stafford	Changeling (Lindwyrm)	Duchy of Daydreams (Clearbrook), Seelie Court, North Wind	Active
Calypso	Changeling (Satyr)	Duchy of Daydreams (Clearbrook), UnSeelie Court	Active
Charlie Renning	Changeling (Arcadian Sidhe)	House Ailil, UnSeelie Court	Active
Trisha Black	Vampire (Tremere)	Camarilla, Prince Reymont	Active
Cathy	Vampire (Malkavian)	Camarilla	Active

The Story So Far

Godly Visions

Ash — Stag

Ash began to distance himself from Gorgon and feel more drawn to Stag, so he visited Stag’s statue by the pond in the West Woods. He smelled the scent of his favorite meal and sensed the joy of home coming from the pond before falling through it into the Umbra. Ash sensed the embrace of many mothers and fathers and Stag asked him if he wanted to become familiar with hospitality. Ash saw no point in hospitality if you only help yourself. Stag brought him to a despoiled ravine and Ash exhausted himself spiritually to cleanse it before being faced with a member of the Cult of Fenris. Ash brutally killed the cult member to keep them from despoiling the ravine again. Stag was satisfied with his efforts, but told him the work wasn’t finished yet. Then, Ash woke up next to the pond again with Stag’s Blessing of Glorious Care.

Tai — Unicorn

While staring off into the distance by the pond hidden in the center of Clearbrook’s West Woods, Tai noticed that the broken statue beside the statues of Stag and Falcon had changed: it was whole again, but it was somehow impossible to discern what figure it represented. Then, a Dog spirit appeared and led him through the pond and into the Umbra on the other side. The spiritual manifestation of the forest was absolutely beautiful, but Tai sensed that it wasn’t quite everything it needed to be yet. The mysterious statue manifested again, but this time it began moving, revealing itself as a spirit. After allowing Tai to follow it for a time, the spirit spoke with Tai before positing that he learn when to fight his Rage and when to run from it. In that instant, all of Tai’s Rage faded (making him temporarily lose his werewolf powers) and the embodiment of his monstrous crinos form appeared. Tai’s inner monster chased him and pinned him to the ground, but Tai seemed to be able to momentarily break through the cloud of Rage with reason. At that, the spirit declared that enough was enough and Tai woke up, having earned Unicorn’s Blessing of Enigmas.

Silver — Rat

TW: Police Violence

Silver had decided to spend her afternoon drinking outside the pack’s safehouse cabin. While downing her fifth can of beer, she started hearing noises: people talking and footsteps. She soon found she was in one of the alleyways that make up Old Dale Alley in Clearbrook. She sensed a thread of connection between herself, the homeless people going about their business, and the town itself. Then, the police arrived and started shoving the homeless around with clearly excessive force. Silver moved forward, pulled her gun on an officer, and fired. Then, Silver seemed to fade from sight and become intangible to those around her. The remaining officers became even more violent after one of their own went down, but Silver was unable to physically affect them. She felt the thread of connection from earlier and tugged on it, which made her appear inside the Clearbrook sewers. There, swarms of rats were collecting forgotten trash and miscellaneous items. As Silver followed the rats, she had a vision of a time when she was cast aside: when her girlfriend Rose left her in disgust after Silver confessed to being a werewolf. Silver sobbed at the memory, but eventually found the strength to continue onward. At the end of the twists and turns of the sewers was a void of darkness, which she stepped into. The spirit who had given her this vision was at the bottom: Rat. Rat acknowledged Silver’s willingness to fight for the disenfranchised and they talked about her want to put some good into the world. Rat not so politely encouraged her to get her shit together and Silver woke up back at the cabin, having received Rat’s Blessing of the Forgotten.

Sydney — Gorgon

Sydney was patrolling the woods near the safehouse cabin in her lupus wolf form when she noticed that her shadow was missing. After the shadow of the spirit Cobra darted in and out of her reach, eventually being caught. Cobra asked Sydney what she was willing to use her anger for. Sydney said she didn’t want her pack to suffer and Cobra countered that there were many shackles yet unbroken. Then, Sydney was cast into writhing darkness, only to fall out of it and find herself in her old home with her younger twin sisters. Her sisters, Cathy and Becca, acted as though everything was normal, but there were signs that things were off. Eventually, the conversation between the siblings was interrupted by people barging in to apprehend a “monster”. Cathy froze in fear while Becca was manhandled to the ground by one of the hunters. Sydney, who had originally lost complete control and blacked out when this happened, heard Gorgon speak. The spirit told her that her vision would not blacken this time and Sydney was given the satisfaction of slaughtering the hunters, though she knew it wasn’t real. Gorgon asked if she would cull those who needed to be culled and Sydney tearfully agreed. Sydney awoke by the cabin with Gorgon’s Blessing of Refusal and smeared her blood on Gorgon’s statue in an oath.

Yuzuki — Chimera

Yuzuki had taken a 5 month sabbatical to find herself and was visiting her family in Quapan. While there, she began to feel the Rage within her shifting under her skin and excused herself from breakfast. In the bathroom, her surroundings shifted so that every surface was a mirror reflecting her image. However, two of the reflections were off: one showed her with blood on her hands and face while the other had a strange shadow. Yuzuki pressed her hands through both of the mirrors and Chimera spoke to her, asking her to choose a path. She chose the path with the shadow and fell into the Umbra. While falling, Chimera asked her about her worst desires and if she would be willing to give them up. Yuzuki answered that her worst desire was the urge to give up. She landed in a grove that was a mix between forest and cosmos and met a version of her old self who angrily called her a failure and told her she would never be enough. However, Yuzuki sensed that this version of her was lashing out from fear. Rather than fight, she imparted the will the keep going and to grow strong. Yuzuki woke up back in the bathroom and received Chimera’s Blessing as she left.

Prologue 1: Debts Paid

The pack began to feel weighed down by their unpaid spiritual debts. In their sleep, they were visited by the memories of the spirits who had given them their first gifts. Eden remembered the time when he made a man fall limp with just his stare with the aid of Nameless Wolf. Yuzuki remembered when she pleaded with Stag for an answer and felt the warmth of a Hearth. Cedo remembered when he spoke with supernatural conviction with the aid of She-Wolf. When they woke up the next day, they had a sense that they needed to go to familiar places to appease the spirits. At breakfast, Cobra—pack totem of the Heart of Blood pack—messed with them. Charlotte said that Cobra simply “enjoyed testing young ones”.

First, the three of them went to an old warehouse on South Main where Eden found Nameless Wolf tired from being pursued by another spirit called the Giver of Names. The Giver of Names cast Eden and Nameless Wolf into a pocket of the Umbra. Eden forgot his name and was harshly interrogated by an officer who questioned what good it was for him to be in the country. Eden said that was something he was going to find out and threatened the officer to let him leave without physical conflict. He then saw that Nameless was an orphaned cub who had to shed who he was in order to survive, but Eden reminded him that he was once called “son”. The Giver of Names tried to dictate that it was simply the way of things for all things to have names, but Eden refuted this, wanting Nameless to finally have a choice. Such was Eden’s resolve that the Name Giver left. His debt to Nameless Wolf was paid.

Next, the three went to a smoothie shop called Berry Bliss on Clearbrook University’s campus. Yuzuki could immediately sense that something had brought discontent into an atmosphere meant to be comforting. She saw a Lady of the Hearth within the flames of the fake fireplace, and the Lady asked her to resolve the discord. Yuzuki then noticed that her eccentric cousin Shiori Ando was sitting across from a strange man in dark clothes. After bantering with Yuzuki for a time and confirming that Yuzuki knew she was a kitsune, Shiori resolved to get rid of the man across from her, though she didn’t intend to kill him in a way Yuzuki was accustomed to. The man, source of the discontent, transformed into three black foxes and disappeared into the Umbra. Shiori transformed into a dire fox with four tails and followed, allowing a hispo form Yuzuki to follow along as well. Though Yuzuki attempted to attack the black foxes at first, she soon agreed to be subject to ten questions with the risk of the Lady of the Hearth’s flames being extinguished with each unsatisfactory answer. Though it got a bit dicey, Yuzuki was able to succeed with a bit of aid from Shiori. This earned her the gratitude of the Hearth Lady. The two cousins appeared back in the physical world and, as Shiori was leaving with her boyfriend, Yuzuki told her cousin that she would always have a home here and that she would kill her if she broke her new boyfriend.

Finally, Eden, Yuzuki, and Cedo went home to the cabin. Cedo was lulled into an easy sleep and pulled into the depths of his mind. There, he awoke in a woodland in lupus form and saw his brothers Methis and Xata. She-Wolf, who he could sense was kin to him, encouraged him to catch up with him brothers and he did so. Afterward, She-Wolf led him to an ancestral grove amid rolling hills with statues dedicated to various wolves. She said that there was a false idol lurking among them and asked that Cedo use his judgement to find it. It didn’t take long for Cedo to identify Sibling Wolf (“the hunter of the weak”) as the false idol and they revealed themself as a servant of Fenris. Sibling Wolf challenged Cedo to a ceremonial duel wherein they would both interpret the Litany to see who knew it better. Each of Cedo’s interpretations of the Litany’s law cracked Sibling Wolf’s stone, eventually revealing themself mangy, rabid wolf underneath. Cedo was able to destroy him afterward and She-Wolf howled in victory to signify that the grove could begin to heal. She-Wolf then told Cedo that his debt had been paid.

Everyone else was also able to clear up their spiritual debts.

House Rules

Penumbral Senses: This Gift can be used in homid and lupus form as well as the supernatural forms.

White Dragon of Friendship: Call out the “White Dragon of Friendship” if you believe a scene is creating out of character hostility between one or more players. This is to remind everyone that we are here to have fun and tell people to change the subject and cool off.

X Card: If at any point a subject comes up that is triggering to you, say “X Card” and the DM will pivot the scene in a different direction.

Rule of Cool: The DM reserves the right to overrule the system rules if a player wants to do something especially cool or interesting that normally wouldn’t be possible.

Final Moments: If a player’s character is in a situation where they are going to die, they may use their final moments to do something such as deliver an uninterrupted monologue and/or perform an action that will succeed, but not save them.

Location	Campaigns
MD	SUPERZ, Ciphers and Stamps, Pirates of Quelmar, Uncharted, OathWielders, Chronepsis Campaign, Atla Campaign, Untitled Podcast Campaign, SotS Inc, The Underdungeon, Towson Tabletop, Sick of this Shit
Online	Tales of the Emerald Front, The Final Epoch, Quelmwar Stories, In the Shadows of a Willow, Curriculum of Chaos, Red Rranos, Sonrise, Aw Heckna!, Quelmar PHANTOMS, The Paragon Protocol, Chains of Rage, Qamp Candela, Knowledge, Lost and Found, The Court of Bloom and Blade, Troubles in Alanya, Infernal Invasion, Assassins of Q-Synara, Within the Wicked Wilds, Quelmarch, Trial of Dreams, Deadly Diaspora, Painted Sands of Pteris, Cirque de la Fey, Reckondary Characters, SUPERZ, Icewind Dale, Queljammer, Sparrow's Point, The Beggar's Bodega, Quelmar Goes to Space, Secondary Characters, Realmtrotter's Guide to Zobeck, The Neighbours, For the Love of Gold
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MN	Plague Song, The Temporal Thunder, The Fantasial Freeze, Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast
Twitch	Sunlight Over New Synàra, Blood Wood, Depths of the Druma, Just the Q of Us, CyberpunQ, Untitled Mafia Project, System Agnostic, First Class, Once Upon a Town, The Rocklin Clinic Job, Not Strahd, Another One Bites the Dice, Rule Benders, Metagame, King for a Day, Operation Verdant Pyramid, Playtest Tuesday, ⮞Get Submodule, Tails of Quelmar, It Came From Kiston
International	The Cola Bears Saving the World, Queljammer
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