The Weaver
Cosmology
Although the Weaver has certainly risen to the position of the most powerful among the Triat, the Garou are of two minds about her. Her function, like that of all the Triatic spirits, is of course necessary. Without her, physical beings and things would have no coherent form or function. There would be no laws of nature to ensure that the world ran in an orderly fashion. Without the Weaver, all would be chaos, unformed, shifting matter and raw energy in a world where cause need not follow effect and no sentient being could survive - if only because it would immediately go mad.
On the other hand, it is evident that she has gone much too far. Her madness spurs her to attempt to calcify everything, both in the Umbra and on the physical plane, in to static changelessness and dreary homogeneity. But this may in fact be her greatest weakness. She is a powerful and subtle being, her influence not always evident and werewolves often overlook her doings in their pursuit of all things Wyrm-tainted. In fact, the line between the Weaver and the Wyrm is often fuzzy, so that Garou often mistake the Weaver's works for those of the Wyrm, and react accordingly. Other times, the influence of the Wyrm is indeed more powerful and obvious, and the Weaver's role in the situation is ignored as incidental and irrelevant. In most cases nothing could be further from the truth.
In many ways, the Weaver still serves as an ally to many Garou and certainly to humanity. However, in the grand scheme of things, her mad spinnings are far from what the universe needs. If she ever manages to throw off her madness and restrain herself, then there might be a chance for balance once again. If not, then the ultimate results will be a universe of pure and perfect order - of the lifeless sort.
The Weaver and The Wyrm
Angered by the Wyrm's incessant destruction of her order, the Weaver imprisoned the Wyrm within her webs, constricting ever tighter around him. And there he thrashes, too large to be able to slip through his bonds, and the threads too strong to be broken with ease. The cutting strands of the Web cutting the Wyrm into a many-headed Hydra, insane with pain.
The Wyrm was (and is) an unwilling prisoner under the Weaver's watchful eye. For this reason, some Garou speculate that the Weaver may in fact be using the Wyrm or that some agreement between them maybe reached in an effort to gang up on the Wyld. Others say that because the Weaver has attempted to enwrap the Wyrm, it has corrupted her in ways that she cannot imagine. Perhaps this binding of the Weaver and Wyrm is why it sometimes seems so hard for Garou to distinguish the works of one from the other. However some Garou, the Glass Walkers in particular, feel that there is much to learn from her, that she may hold the key to fighting the Wyrm - its agents and the Urges which have permeated and flourished in mortal society.
The Weaver in the Umbra
The Pattern Web is the lattice that underlies all of reality. It can be said to be alive, but not really conscious. It is the spiritual scaffolding that supports both material and Umbral reality, the framework for all that exists.
The Pattern Web is the oldest and largest structure in the universe, but very few Garou ever come into direct contact with it. Part of the reason for this is because it is quite "remote", underlying reality rather than being an actual part of it. The Webs that coat the portions of the Deep Umbra are actually reflections of the Pattern Web itself, the "tip of the iceberg" as it were. When a Garou walks on the Pattern Web, she is walking more or less within, behind, and beyond the universe all at once, traveling the interstitial void between spirit, matter, and anything which may be beyond…
In the vast recesses of deep space, the Web is less tightly woven, allowing the Wyld to snake its way through much more easily. Closer to Gaia, however, the Weaver has spun web much more tightly, making it difficult for even the fluid Wyld to squeeze through and exert its influence on Earth.
Long ages ago, the Weaver drew forth a portion of the Pattern Web, and cast it between the Umbra and the Terran worlds. This became the Gauntlet, a barrier that kept the chaos of the Umbra that so maddened the Weaver from infusing the World. It is this Gauntlet that the Garou then were taught to breach, so that they might still represent a joining of the two to the one. But the Weaver does not take lightly this violation of her order.
The Gauntlet is patrolled constantly by various Weaver spirits, who will attempt to entangle and calcify any intruders they chance upon. Volatile or errant attempts to step sideways through the Gauntlet catch the attention of these spirits and woe to the Garou who can't manage convince the spirits that they belong there. This is why Navigators' skills are so important in such efforts. Much like a thief might expose the laser sensors that protect a valuable jewel, so do the Navigators perceive the delicate threads that will bring the immediate attention of an Enforcer. Some Navigators specialize in the gentle art of pulling and stretching threads so as to affect a passage through the webs without the slightest alarm being given to the Weaver's many defenders.
The Everyday Weaver
The Weaver's influence on the world is ubiquitous, and it is this all-pervading nature that makes it so hard to detect. Everytime a datapacket streams along the world's networks, the Weaver is there. Everytime a new species is discovered, classified, and filed according to its ability to be rendered into a useful new drug, the Weaver is there. The Weaver is very much a part of man in his day to day activities, but She has more overt agents as well. Organized in detailed classes and specializations, these constructs do Her will with precise skill, though with a lack of creativity.
The simple everyday Weaver spirits themselves are seemingly quite neutral. And with computer chips being added with increasing frequency to objects in the world, Garou find themselves more and more surrounded by the thin, tinny voices of Weaver spirits. Other spirits have been drawn into the Weaver's entourage. Consider the wild and free Lightning Elementals that used to dance across the Umbral landscape, a danger to all who might travel there. Many an elder Shadow Lord will sadly tell of how easy it used to be to call and ride a Lightning Elemental with a word of command learned from Grandfather Thunder. Now these free and chaotic spirits are rare, hunted by special teams of Spider-spirits, to be reigned and harnessed to do the Weaver's will within her great Machines.
Spiders roam the Weaver's webs doing a variety of repair, upgrade, and preventative maintenance duties. Spinners are dispatched to lay new web or reinforce old one. Spinner Spiders are generally oblivious to intruders, they are likely to treat a wandering Garou as a foreign object to be isolated, wrapped up in threads, and carried off to a disposal area. Some Garou have managed to find such areas, literal graveyards of spirits or Garou that came too close to a busy Spinner. Watchers roam the web checking for problem areas, and will quickly summon a Spinner or Enforcer as needed to handle any difficulties. Watchers are generally swift, but not capable of doing much in the way of self-defense. Enforcers are the more immediately dangerous Spiders, their hardened crystalline forms quite capable of ending the journey of any Umbral traveller who has gone too far. When a subject has been judged danderous, Enforcer Spiders have been known to pursue them across the Gauntlet. When materializing they often assume forms that are considering authoritative in the area in which they finally confront the subject.
Many other specialized spiders have been seen in the Umbra, both on and off of established web lines. Courier spiders run with incredible speed, carrying objects or information that cannot securely be transmitted by normal communication technology. Probe spiders cast flying strands that carry them deep into the Umbra, gathering information for the Weaver's future plans.