1928-1938: The Okeechobee Hurricane makes its way through Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and southern Florida. Palm Beach's local rodere clan loses their home, and their King, Malcolm Sinclair, takes them on the road through the Bible Belt in search of a new homestead. They obtain new members, spend some time in Cajun Country, and continue to recruit before their King has the clan descend on New Orleans, Louisiana with the intent of driving out its local vampires. The rodere, The Holy Crown Clan, is successful in this.

The rodere declare New Orleans as their own, as well as a safe haven for all shapeshifters willing to keep the peace and keep the city vampire-free. Over the next few years, numerous vampires do attempt to retake the city through various means. There are inevitably losses on all sides, but the lycanthropes hold on to New Orleans during this bloody time. During 1932 a kiss of vampires does manage to wrest the city from Malcolm and his allies, only to lose it again within a month's worth of fighting.

With an increasing number of shapeshifters moving into the city, conflict arises just as much as solidarity. The rodere's clan has doubled in size and becomes dissatisfied with its somewhat erratic King. Malcolm's supremacy is challenged by a member of his court, he is murdered and his clan renamed to The Horde. The new Rat King of the city is a local named Elijah Dupris, who holds on to Malcolm's disgust for vampires, but is much more willing to accept diversity within the clan.

1938-1948: Dupris lasts from 1935 until 1940, when he is assassinated by a wereleopard under the influence of a master vampire. The city is sent into an uproar and the rats are forced to fight out who is their new leader, settling on Robert Reid. This makes little difference, because by now two master vampires have banded together in their own effort to obtain New Orleans. Their names are Luc and Alyssa, and their animals to call are leopards and wolves. By 1941, the city is theirs and stays theirs.

Luc and Alyssa rule the city of New Orleans from 1941 until 1945. Their reign is full of blood and death, and the shapeshifters essentially turn away from one another during this period, too intent on their own survival to bother with camaraderie. Many rodere are killed while many more go underground. The lukoi are badly demoralized, and when the wereleopards are sent out after the rats, there is a wholesale slaughter. The pard's numbers in New Orleans will never again be as high as they are during the early 1940s. However, it is the killing of many leopards which turns the tide, and in 1945 all vampires are either killed or driven out. Alyssa is murdered. Luc is presumed dead, but a body is never found. Rumors will continually circulate that he was eaten by rats.

1948-1958: For the next ten years, New Orleans' lycanthrope community rebuilds itself as well as its willingness to trust one another. Small skirmishes occur, but they are generally not notable.

1958-1968: Similar to the decade before it, this is a generally peaceful time where alliances are built, and kingships amongst the sundry groups of shapeshifters are battled for, lost and won. Many people become sidetracked by current events, and so comparatively pack issues are put off to one side. Vampire activity is not unheard of, but they are regularly dispatched without issue.

1968-1978: The city's human population is stirred up as vampires come into more of a public light than ever before. There is a great fear of them, and the shapeshifters benefit from this. Some cry wolf, as it were, and blame vampires for their own misdeeds. Other just count themselves glad for the country's ability to kill a vampire on sight and enjoy the city's fairly safe status.

1978-1988: Because vampires are essentially a non-entity during this point in time, the shapeshifters begin to turn on one another. It is not long before there is an all-out war hitting the shadows and the alleys where the lycanthropes are forced to keep their business, and clans, packs and pards alike begin attacking with intent to kill. This goes on until 1985, a very long time indeed. With their numbers decimated, a desperate truce is finally called. It is negotiated by the rodere King Jacob Levy, Ulfric Sean Slattery, Oba Sarah Mercier and léopardé lionne Hugh Barnes. Although tensions continue within their communities, bonds of trust are encouraged and begin to reform.

In 1988, a pack of lukoi living as a biker gang come to New Orleans. They are called The Frenzy, and their Ulfric is a man named Butcher. Aggressive to a point that the New Orleans lukoi have never seen before, the local pack is quickly taken over by The Frenzy. Butcher meets with Jacob Levy and forms an arrangement so that his people may safely live in the city.

1988-1998: 1998 is a turning point for the local shapeshifters. Butcher is replaced as Ulfric by Philip Dumas, his polar opposite, and the new Ulfric turns his pack to more enterprising means. Similarly, the local pack of hyenas, The Screamers, has its Oba replaced by Rosalin Gosford. Both new leaders manage to completely turn their new people in a different direction. During this period, New Orleans continues to run fairly successfully. However, the rodere's King is aging and gradually losing his grasp on his people.

1998-2008: In 2003, his Jester, Mahmoud, kills and takes Jacob's throne. Mahmoud's love for his King is only overpowered by his love for The Horde, and so he is forced to reassure himself by insisting Jacob's death is for the greater good. With Mahmoud in control of New Orleans, he begins to crack down on laws and rules where Jacob had begun to turn lax. Harsh but fair, the city starts to turn itself around just in time for Hurricane Katrina.

Katrina tears through the south, New Orleans in particular, and leaves little more than destruction in its wake. During this time, the city nearly empties of humans, leaving a higher ratio of shapeshifters for the first time in the city's history. While the local lycanthropes do their best to either survive or help out other survivors, this period does leave New Orleans vulnerable. Numerous vampires hit the city even as the local animating company packs its bags and heads for higher ground. Nearly all lycanthropes survive, and the vast majority stay on despite evacuations. Their presence helps with the city's recovery. A year later, a tiny pack of lukoi comes to town and petitions the rat King for permission to move in. Their Ulfric, Raul de Rocha, meets with both Mahmoud and The Frenzy's Ulfric before being granted acceptance. By the time Philip is usurped by a woman named Mariah Kindred, Raul's pack has been in town for over six months and has more than trebled in six. When Mariah kills Philip and takes on the role of Ulfric, she gets The Frenzy's members one night in which to decide whether they'd rather stay or go. Nearly one hundred wolves "defect" to Raul's Lazarus pack, putting The Frenzy's number at the lower end for the first time. By 2008, both wolf kings have been in power long enough to cement their titles. Nonetheless, they -- like all the shapeshifters in New Orleans -- are still finding their places, and recovering from the hurricane.