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The Triat
Below Gaia in cosmic power are the mysterious, personified forces called the Wyld, the Weaver, and the Wyrm. According to the Garou, these entities, collectively called the Triat, shape and control eternity. The interplay of these impersonal, spiritual forces makes up the Tellurian and comprises all within it. At a base level, the members of the Triat represent the forces of creation, growth, and destruction, but they are far more than that. They represent potential, materialization, and unraveling. They also embody chaos, order, and balance.

The Wyld
Creation begins with the Wyld. The Wyld is pure change. It is not so much undifferentiated chaos as it is elemental transmutation. It constantly swirls with change, adaptation, and change again. The Wyld is alive with possibility: the Wyld IS possibility itself. Every ant and tree contains within its spirit a particle of this chaos and possibility.
The Wyld is a complete entity, but without the Weaver, the Wyld loses all the forms it spawns. They return to the primal forge at the very moment of birth. To be all forms at all times is to be no form at all. Life without bounds cannot know itself in all parts. This means that the Wyld is the least personified of the three. Its constant mutability precludes true form or nature. The Wyrm is also essential to the Wyld, because the Wyrm destroys select aspects of the Weaver's Web and returns the uncreated matter to the Wyld.
The Garou venerate the Wyld, seeing it as a symbol of their struggle against the Apocalypse and a promise of a brighter day. Its Realms teem with countless forms of life. In the world that from the Wyld, anything can happen. Outnumbered, outfought, outmaneuvered Garou may even be able prevail against the forces that threaten to devour Gaia. The Wyld is a bright hope, a promise of change from a wicked world of evil matter and entropic destruction.

The Weaver
From the heedless change of the Wyld came ordered growth. The Weaver selected sections of the turbulent creation and kept them from dissolving into the boisterous whole at the instant of their birth. Undifferentiated creation was thereby structured and locked into form. Thus did the Weaver spin the first strands of that structure which would become the fabric of the universe-the Pattern Web.
This changed everything. Where there was form, there could be growth and progress. Meaning was now imposed on meaningless potential. Inconstant infinity had yielded to enduring eternity. Then the Wyrm arrived and pruned away sections of the Weaver's creation. The Weavers' perfect patterns were now imperfect, but balanced. According to the Garou, this is the true cosmological cycle of chaos, creation, and destruction. It lasted an eternity, but was ultimately shattered when the Weaver gained consciousness.
There are many theories about how exactly the Weaver went mad. The following are three of the most common in Garou society.
Some say the Weaver tried to spin the entire Wyld into full, patterned existence. This created an explosion of creation, which drove the Weaver insane. She looked into the Web and saw only madness. The Wyrm, exhausted from trying to maintain the balance became ensnared in creation. The Wyrm is still there, struggling to free itself and destroying all creation from the inside.
Others say the Weaver was far more calculating, and that her only madness in power-lust. The Weaver attempted to make logical advancement and permanence in the cornerstones of the Tellurian. Once she established causality, she set out to impose causality on everything. The Wyrm was an obstacle to this process, because it destroyed by its own rules rather than the rules of the Weaver. So the Weaver ensnared the Wyrm in the Pattern Web and directed its destruction along the lines of causality. But her control over it is not absolute, and it still manages to destroy blindly, along a pattern other than hers. This limits her power, which is cosmologically helpful, but injures Gaia, which is not.
Still other Garou, like the Glass Walkers, claim that the Wyrm is the source of trouble, because the Wyrm attempted to destroy the Wyld altogether. If the Wyld were gone, nothing more could be created, and the Wyrm would emerge victorious. The Wyrm tried to use the Weaver to weaken the Wyld by ensnaring it, but the Weaver could not bind all of infinity. Instead, she spun herself into madness. The Wyrm was caught in a trap of its own devising, and remains there to this day. Meanwhile, the eternal Wyld endures. The Glass Walkers insist that the Weaver is simply trying to defend herself, and that she holds the key ot stopping the Wyrm.

The Wyrm
The Wyrm is the third and last of the Triat. It was once the restorer of balance, bringing harmony where there was none and ensuring that neither the order of the Weaver nor the chaos of the Wyld prevailed throughout reality. Suspended between the chaos below and the Pattern Web above, the Wyrm removed all that was not harmonious.
Then the Wyrm became ensnared in the Pattern Web. By looking into the madness of the Weaver's web, it gained sentience and became trapped in the Weaver's deadly Apocalyptic game. The Wyrm fractured into three personalities and as a result is not always able to coordinate its actions.
Where the Wyrm was once the bringer of harmony, it is now the harbinger of the Apocalypse, spawning entropy, decay and corruption. Unable to destroy overtly and honorably, it destroys from within. It destroys all those weak enough in spirit to succumb to the temptation of hatred and envy.