Ancient Times

5th Century A.D.

 * In what would become the United States of America, a Native American man and woman, both powerful witches and members of two warring tribes, were married together to create a unified coven.
 * The couple then went on to conceive a child together. For nine months, the tribal Elders came to the the mother, using magic to grant the child great power in hopes that the newborn would become a symbol of prosperity.
 * After the child was born, it became clear that Inadu was even more powerful than they could have imagined. However, this power came with an insatiable hunger for more power, channeling life in all its forms. Eventually she loved the fear she inspired in others and became ruthless, unfeeling, empty, the define trait gave rise to her nickname, "The Hollow."
 * Years later, after Inadu, now a young woman, had performed numerous sacrifices in the name of taking their power for herself, the Elders of her coven, along with her own mother, used wolves to ambush Inadu so that they could take her down once and for all. Knowing that they would have to kill her via dismemberment to ensure that she would be truly dead, the witches held her down as they enchanted an axe with the power to end her life. Knowing that her time was limited, Inadu cast one final spell, empowered by her death.
 * Once she had been killed, the nature of the spell was finally revealed-- she cursed every witch present for her execution to be bound to the Full Moon, at which time they would be forced to shapeshift into wolves, the same animals they used to hunt her, thus causing the creation of the Werewolf species and curse. Inadu's mother, who bore the Crescent mark just like her daughter, then became the progenitor of the Labonair bloodline of Werewolves, who shared her lineage with Inadu.
 * The other cursed witches in attendance then became the progenitors of the remaining six original werewolf bloodlines — Malroux, Deep Water, Barry, BasRoq, Paxon, and Poldark.
 * At some point, Inadu's spirit was locked away by the New Orleans Ancestral Witches, remaining a prisoner, in an unknown dimension, for centuries until the link between the ancestors and the living world was destroyed in 2014 and she used the massive release of energy to escape.