The Garou pride themselves on being Gaia's guardians, her tacticians and military leaders, her last line of defense against those who would harm her and yet there is an entire world they know nothing about, a world they constantly ignore, a world they feel is too small to be of concern.

There are Garou, however that wonder about the reality of this situation. They are the Garou that walk through the forest and see a spider hiding under every leaf, crawling along every log, spinning webs among every branch, blade and bush. These are the Garou that have noticed just how many insects there are and just how prevalent spiders seem to be. These are the Garou that wonder just how powerful the Ananasi really are.

Knowledge on the Ananasi is extremely limited. So few Garou pay attention to spiders and even less give thought about what the existence of spider shifters actually means. To the Garou Nation, the War of Rage is lesson enough. Maybe mistakes were made, but the spider's web is the very epitome of the Weaver that is driving humans to destroy the earth with their great technologies. The Ananasi encouraged the technological web the humans started spinning. Infact, the Ananasi probably taught the humans how to communicate so well with the Weaver in the first place.

For the longest time, the Garou Nation classified the Ananasi as a fallen race, one that did not survive the Wars of Rage. However, this attitude has changed in recent times. It has come to light among the warriors of the Amazon and some Glass Walkers in the cities that there are one or two spiders that are more than what they seem to be. These spider shifters seem to be antisocial and solitary, isolationist to the point of aggression.

The Garou of the Amazon report that there are very few Ananasi in existence, but the few that survive are highly intelligent and command alien powers. The Amazon warriors have reported that, in the case of the Ananasi, the War of Rage was correct. They have witnessed the Ananasi wield powers akin to the will workers that serve the goals of the Weaver so slavishly, as well as powers that have clearly come from the Wyrm. The Ananasi are a race fallen from Gaia, shattered by the madness of the Wyrm, their mentor, and the megalomania of the Weaver, whom they call Queen and Mother. These are creatures beyond redemption, and should be sent before Gaia Herself for judgment.

Stories are whispered amongst the Garou Nation that in the city things are slightly different. Cut off from the reality facing the other Garou, the Glass Walkers, and even the Bone Gnawers, are rumored to have worked with Ananasi in the past, unknowing of the treatment the other Garou experience at the hands of the Amazonian and Asian were-spiders. Asian Garou have heard tales about Stargazers that meet and exchange information with Kumo allies. The Garou Nation don't know the full truth of this, or how wide-spread such contact is, but there would appear to be cause for concern. For the three tribes concerned, such contact has been known by very few and Glass Walkers and Stargazers have reported alliances against foes of the Garou, as well as foes against the Ananasi, and for other, apparently more esoteric, needs. These Garou allege that the Ananasi are at war with themselves, a complex, political and ideological war that could be played to the Garou's advantage against the Ananasi themselves. The Garou Nation treats this knowledge as suspect, assuming it to have issued forth as bait from the Wyrm-tongued mouths of the blood-suckers themselves. For now, the Garou keep the Ananasi at arm's length unless forced into conflict - wondering, perhaps, if the humans remember a Delirium-fogged truth in the story of the Spider and the Fly.