1) ... Soooo... the city cannot be in areas that are canonically Uktena or Wendigo (northern Canada, south west US)
Ottawa's in relatively Southern Canada! And you'll have southwest Ontario to play with, which is about as South as Canada gets, too.
2) The sept of Gaia Triumphant was also conquered relatively early in the settlement of the US...
Ottawa (As Bytown) was encorporated in the 1850s, but the area is quite close to the early British and French settlements, so it's within reach of werewolves. Especially with being close to the Saint Laurance (SP) Seaway.
3) Hopefully, canonically, it will have the right werewolf populations that I have in my Septs.
I'm not sure what you have in your Septs, so I can't comment here. But you've mentioned Silver Fangs, and we've got the Government here so this is a good start.
4) The urban Sept is dominated by Glass Walker werewolves which, in turn, are rather out matched by a large and powerful vampire population.
Ottawa is the site of Silicon Valley North, aka Kanata, which supported a major computer tech industry until the bubble burst. There's still a fair amount of R&D done out here. The government bureaucracy and various spin-off industries is about 40% of the local economy.
5) There has to be an element of back of beyond to the forest. This is not a forest where people go picnicking and hiking. This is the trackless wilderness where Red Talons will EAT YOU nom nom nom if you get too close to the Sept.
Algonquin National Park offers BOTH options, due to it being bloody enormous. There are fringe areas that are hiker friendly, and deep deep deep freaking woods.
Incidentally, this is a city where it's mildly interesting when a bear wanders into downtown or deep suburbia (And obviously alarming to locals), but not shocking. Moose, also, get into the downtown core, and deer have been known to go leaping through peoples kitchen windows, run around the house in a panic, and then bust out the picture window and run out into the night, leaving behind a lot of very confused humans.
I have passed a bear who was taking the highway straight downtown. He was in the slow lane and not particularly chuffed by all the traffic.
The huge ass "greenbelt" in the city and the federally-owned parkways result in us being spread out, but they also acts as a wildlife corridor right into the heart of the city. This is one of the few cities I'd actually call "Lupus friendly". Red Talons might ACTUALLY have a semi-significant presence somewhere within spitting distance of a "city".
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Date: 2008-10-01 04:34 pm (UTC)1) ... Soooo... the city cannot be in areas that are canonically Uktena or Wendigo (northern Canada, south west US)
Ottawa's in relatively Southern Canada! And you'll have southwest Ontario to play with, which is about as South as Canada gets, too.
2) The sept of Gaia Triumphant was also conquered relatively early in the settlement of the US...
Ottawa (As Bytown) was encorporated in the 1850s, but the area is quite close to the early British and French settlements, so it's within reach of werewolves. Especially with being close to the Saint Laurance (SP) Seaway.
3) Hopefully, canonically, it will have the right werewolf populations that I have in my Septs.
I'm not sure what you have in your Septs, so I can't comment here. But you've mentioned Silver Fangs, and we've got the Government here so this is a good start.
4) The urban Sept is dominated by Glass Walker werewolves which, in turn, are rather out matched by a large and powerful vampire population.
Ottawa is the site of Silicon Valley North, aka Kanata, which supported a major computer tech industry until the bubble burst. There's still a fair amount of R&D done out here. The government bureaucracy and various spin-off industries is about 40% of the local economy.
5) There has to be an element of back of beyond to the forest. This is not a forest where people go picnicking and hiking. This is the trackless wilderness where Red Talons will EAT YOU nom nom nom if you get too close to the Sept.
Algonquin National Park offers BOTH options, due to it being bloody enormous. There are fringe areas that are hiker friendly, and deep deep deep freaking woods.
Incidentally, this is a city where it's mildly interesting when a bear wanders into downtown or deep suburbia (And obviously alarming to locals), but not shocking. Moose, also, get into the downtown core, and deer have been known to go leaping through peoples kitchen windows, run around the house in a panic, and then bust out the picture window and run out into the night, leaving behind a lot of very confused humans.
I have passed a bear who was taking the highway straight downtown. He was in the slow lane and not particularly chuffed by all the traffic.
The huge ass "greenbelt" in the city and the federally-owned parkways result in us being spread out, but they also acts as a wildlife corridor right into the heart of the city. This is one of the few cities I'd actually call "Lupus friendly". Red Talons might ACTUALLY have a semi-significant presence somewhere within spitting distance of a "city".