A werewolves are one of the many shapechangers.

They are capable of shapeshifting in five

different forms. They are living in the packs, helping each other. Humans tell stories that werewolf
is made when the existing werewolf bites human when he is in his wolf-form. This is false. The
werewolf is being born, not made. The werewolf can be born in three different circumistances. If a
wolf and a werewolf mate, there are chances that their child will be: werewolf (Lupus). If a
werewolf and a human mate, the child will maybe be Homid, and if two werewolfs have sex and
make a child (thus breaking the Litany - the law for Garou), the child will be some kind of
abomination in Garou's society - Metis. With deformities and mostly hated from others, they are
direct breach of the Litany.
A werewolf's biggest danger which can harm them badly is silver. The silver is cappable of killing
even most resistant Garou. It's not quite sure how the human society get the knowledge about
werewolf's biggest danger but once they did - it spreads everywhere. Even the humans who think
that werewolves are myths and legends, the scary stories the tell to their childer - they know what
silver means for a werewolf.
A werewolf can transform in five different forms : Homid, Lupus, Crinos, Glabro and, Hispo.
The werewolves are, normally, the protectors of the Gaia, Her warriors. She made many other
shapechangers, like wereravens - which seek for knowledge. To each of them, She gave them
their purpose in this world. But at the one moment, Garou nation decided that they are the most
powerful shapeshifter race - and thus, they started the War of Rage.

Like a snake crawling up your spine

You got a feeling that you can't define
You got no ideas and you got no time
Cause there's a crack in the sidewalk
Come the rains and come the floods
Wash away our flesh and blood.

The Wyrm is embracing the world, grasping and destroying it, fullying it with sickness and poison
- as the Gaia suffers the pain and screams loudly.
Gaia made Her warriors - Garou nation, to be Her sword and destroyer of the Wyrm, the sickness
which is everywhere. With the powers they posses, their task is to protect her and wipe off their
existence. Their vision is simple - the world expurgated from the Wyrm.
Why is that their vision of the world? Because(most of them) live and fight only for Gaia - and only
for Her. With gifts from spirits, with primal anger from Luna and their gnosis - connection to spirits
- they seek to clean the world.

Gaia is their mother, but Her sister - Luna - has big influence on Garou nation. She blessed them
with their primal anger, but also with Auspice - the manifestation of Luna at the moment the Garou
is born. Commonly known as moon phrases they are far more important for Garou than humanity
thinks. Most of them thinks that werewolves can shapeshift only under the Full Moon, however
that's not true. They can shapeshift whenever they want.
Auspice is the moon under which the Garou is born. Trickster, shaman or warrior? Or something
else... It also gives the stronger connection to Luna, giving them bigger Rage in themselves which
they can use to strike down the Wyrm - the sickness and thus, protect Gaia.
I choose the Ahroun Auspice for my character as I want to roleplay a Garou warrior, the one who
will stand and protect Gaia from all the Wyrm.
As he is Lupus-Ahroun Garou, he will have personallity of an animal who is able to defend itself
and protect Gaia.

Werewolves are being born not made. Breed is a term used to describe in what conditions a
Garou was made and thus, in what form he was born.
If a human and a werewolf have sex, and they get a child - the child might be a werewolf, born in
a Homid form. (that could happen with two humans as well, if the Garou blood is stronger and
potent enough in their lineage)
If a werewolf and a wolf mate together, and they get a 'child' - born in a Lupus form.
If two werewolves have sex, and make a child it will be born in Crinos-form.
Long before the First Change, werewolf's true nature is shaped. If he was born as a Lupus, he
would be raised in the wolf's society, knowing nothing about human kind. Otherwise with Homid
and Crinos children.