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Chapter II: Character
All this knowledge comes to the werewolf subconsciously,
without distracting her from whatever she’s doing
at the moment. Packmates must be within a number of
miles equal to the character’s Primal Urge for the awareness
to apply. The effects of this Gift persist for one scene.
Cost: None
Dice Pool: Wits + Empathy + Wisdom
Action: Reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The awareness of her packmates’
situation overwhelms the Cahalith momentarily and
proves distracting. Her actions incur a –1 penalty for one
turn per packmate (not counting herself). She cannot
invoke this Gift again until the penalty passes.
Failure: The character gains no special awareness of
her packmates.
Success: The character learns the listed information
about her packmates.
Exceptional Success: One pack member (not the
character herself) regains a point of spent Willpower for
knowing that his Cahalith is there to support him. The
Cahalith’s player decides who gets this point.
Resist Pain (••)
Glory is the meat and drink of the Cahalunim, and
few things are more glorious than a warrior who fights
on despite grievous wounds. This Gift unleashes the raw
passion of the Cahalith, filling her body with vigor such
that normally crippling injuries do not deter her. Unfortunately,
as the pain recedes, so does the Cahalith’s caution,
and a glorious death might be her final act.
When a werewolf activates this Gift, her awareness of
the pain of her wounds recedes and ceases to impair her.
As a result, she ignores the wound penalties that come
from being badly injured, acting with a full dice pool until
those last Health points are healed or she drops into blissful
unconsciousness. The effects of this Gift persist for the
remainder of the scene.
A character with this Gift active is not threatened by
Death Rage when injuries are imposed on her last three
Health boxes. No roll to resist Kuruth is required because
of those wounds. If the character is already in Death Rage,
she still seeks to flee when injuries are marked in one of
her last three Health boxes.
Cost: 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Stamina + Survival + Honor
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character’s wound penalties
increase by one for a single turn.
Failure: Wound penalties affect the character as
normal.
Success: Wound penalties do not affect the character,
regardless of how badly hurt or near death she is.
Exceptional Success: As a success. Also, the character’s
hardiness surprises enemies, granting a +1 bonus on
the next attack roll made for her.
Rallying Cry (•••)
By giving of herself and howling of past glories, a Cahalith
can give her packmates hope even in their darkest
hour. She channels the voices of the Cahalunim through
her, lending their power to her words and inspiring packmates
to greatness. The Cahalith stirs hearts with a tale
(or howl or ballad or epic poem) of glory that’s thematically
appropriate to some situation faced. This power cannot
be used — successfully or not — on the same people more
than once per day.
Cost: 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Expression + Glory
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Cahalith shakes her packmates’
confidence and costs them each a Willpower point
rather than awarding any. She loses a point as well, in
addition to the one spent.
Failure: The message is strong, but it bears no supernatural
inspiration.
Success: The Cahalith inspires her packmates to
greatness. They each regain one spent Willpower point.
A character’s Willpower cannot be raised above her total
dots by this means. The Cahalith does not receive this
bonus Willpower award herself, nor does she regain the
Willpower point spent to activate the Gift.
Exceptional Success: The Cahalith surprises herself
with her own skill at inspiring her packmates, and their
reactions motivate her in turn. She gains back the Willpower
point spent to activate this Gift, and an additional
one as well.
Unspoken Communication (••••)
In the interests of greater communication, which
leads to effective cooperation and glorious success, the
Cahalunim grant Cahalith this Gift. With it, a Cahalith
can keep packmates in constant contact, enabling them to
act as one.
Packmates within line of sight of the Cahalith can
be joined in instantaneous mental communication for
the rest of the scene. Allies need not necessarily see each
other, they simply need to be seen by the Gift’s user.
Packmates can “speak” mind to mind and hear each other
perfectly clearly regardless of any ambient noise. Any
speaker can communicate with one particular packmate of
his choice, or with all of them simultaneously.
Connected characters gain a +3 bonus to Initiative as
they’re better able to coordinate their efforts. Connected
characters also gain a +1 bonus to attack and use Gifts
against enemies of the group as victims reel while trying
to contend with combined and well-times assaults.