Triat (World of Darkness) - The Wyld

The Wyld

At once the most simply motivated and the least understood of the Triat, the Wyld is an unpredictable force that has little interest in hierarchies, fixed domains, or even names (Naming, according to myth, is a creation of the Weaver). At its most extreme it represents creative chaos unbridled by rules. At more subdued levels, however, it is associated with untamed nature. As such, it does not so much create realms for itself as it brushes past places, objects, and beings, leaving its mark on them. In keeping with its total disinterest in civilization, its few servitors in the physical world (labeled "Gorgons" by the Garou) are wild animals blessed with unique abilities, acting as paragons of their species. Needless to say, no two Gorgons are alike, and many seem not to have a clear purpose - they simply exist.

In the Deep Umbra, the Wyld is the most powerful member of the Triat. In the physical Realm, however, the Wyld is the least powerful of the Triat. Its very essence, limitless possibility, is constantly forced from the physical world by the Weaver and humanity's focus upon "logic" and "reason." As logic is forced upon an illogical world, there is less and less room for the magic of uncaused change.

The last remaining true servants of the Wyld, rather than of the Wyld's Celestine daughter Gaia, are the Changelings: faerie souls forced to seek shelter by melding themselves with the souls of young children, mostly losing all identity but retaining a fragment of the glamour of their lost Arcadia; the faerie realm, which shut itself off from the world long ago. Within the Umbra, cosmological worlds separated by a spiritual barrier from our physical world, there still existed free Wyld spirits and entire realms dedicated to this force of nature.

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