California Fae Wars

The California Fae Wars began in 1850 as the rush to develop California's gold mining potential drove new settlement, specifically of Werewolves. The fae up to this point in the Americas had been more than willing to share territory with the werewolves, as both groups generally supported good environmental practices, but the fae were surprisingly very unsettled with this development. The Indigenous Fae absolutely refused to allow further werewolf settlement throughout almost all of modern day Nevada, Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Northern Utah, Western Wyoming, and Montana, citing the treatment of North American Indigenous Wolves and their wholesale slaughter throughout the rest of the country.
This was surprising to most of the supernatural community, since the indigenous fae had not joined with their European-descended counterparts and were not involved in the Council of Supernatural Peoples at any point in time. They had sat out of all disagreements about territory until, suddenly, they were resolute. Several nascent werewolf packs that tried to settle in Montana and Dakota saw massive food spoilage, illness, bad luck, and extreme weather damage to property within the first few months of staking any claim to the area. Once they realized this was due to the indigenous fae's displeasure, they attempted to negotiate, vowing to share profits from natural resources and declare areas wild zones, but the fae would not budge. 
Fighting started in California when a small group of werewolves attempted to push out an indigenous pack from the Tahoe forest. The fae absolutely destroyed the pack, sparing women and children, and did not allow for them to leave the area. They eventually integrated into the local werewolf population and later formed the Redwoods Forest Cooperative which takes up a significant portion of Northern California to this day. After this initial fight, the fae began to slowly push the werewolf population back East. There were very few wins on the Werewolf side, as much of their magical traditions had died out during the Great Purge and the indigenous supernatural peoples had home field advantage. There was only one battle in California, for which the war is named, and most of the fighting occurred further North in the Dakotas. 
The fighting stopped at the end of the Civil War as many of the werewolf packs worked to reunify as their civil human governments also did so. At this time, the Union of the West representing the indigenous supernatural peoples came to the table and worked out the placement of indigenous pack lands and reserved the right to manage the werewolf populations in the territory the Union claimed.

Conflict Type

War