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wolf, except in self-defense. The aura is manifest for the
remainder of the scene.
Exceptional Success: As success, and a human onlooker’s
Willpower is considered three lower than normal
for determining the effects of Lunacy (see p. 176).
Victor’s Song (•••••)
All is lost when heart is lost. Yet even when hope
has vanished, newfound courage can claim victory
where there was only defeat. In the face of hopeless odds,
whether surviving a suicide charge or bracing a crumbling
levee, Victor’s Song doesn’t push allies beyond their limits,
it pushes their limits beyond what they thought possible.
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: Presence + Expression + Honor
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The spirits are offended by the
clumsy use of the Gift. The character loses the ability to
use any Inspiration Gifts for the rest of the day.
Failure: The Gift has no effect.
Success: The user must howl, chant or sing a song extolling
his comrades to valor and courage. Success rolled
grants one Essence to all allied werewolves within earshot,
save the Gift user. Furthermore, a one-die bonus is added
to all allies’ dice pools. This Gift works only in the face
of overwhelming odds (say, the imminent death of the
pack or the loss of all territory). Against typical threats or
evenly matched opponents, the Gift automatically fails;
the spirits look askance at misuse of their power. This
Gift may be used only once per day on a subject, and any
unspent Essence gained is lost at the end of the scene.
Die-pool bonuses stop at the end of the scene, too.
Exceptional Success: As success, but all allied werewolves
gain a point of Willpower for the scene, as well.
KNOWLEDGE GIFT S
Few things are more useful than knowledge, and some
spirits know secret shortcuts to learning interesting things.
Where Gifts of Insight allow a werewolf to see the world
through a different set of eyes, Gifts of Knowledge involve
simply reaching out, plucking a fact or piece of data from
the greater weave of the world and putting it to use.
Iron Masters, with their desire to learn as much as they
can about the changing world, are particularly drawn to
Knowledge Gifts, but any werewolf can find them useful.
Gifts of Knowledge are typically taught by spirits
that represent wisdom or information, and are frequently
urban. Spirits of computers are one source, as are rat- and
cockroach-spirits.
Know Name (•)
To understand something, one must first know its
name. This Gift is a simple trick, but one with potentially
wide-ranging applications. With a glance, the werewolf
can learn the name of someone she sees in person. The
name learned is always one that the person would answer
to and consider his own. The character cannot use this
Gift on a person that she sees indirectly (through a video
camera or in a photograph).
Cost: None
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Investigation + Cunning
versus subject’s Resolve + Primal Urge (see below)
Action: Instant or contested; resistance is reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The werewolf picks up a different
and wholly inappropriate name. She might learn the name
of someone else in the room or of the target’s fourth-grade
teacher and assume it belongs to the target.
Failure: The werewolf fails to learn the target’s name.
She cannot try to use this Gift on the same target again
this scene.
Success: The character learns the target’s name
as the target defines it. Using this Gift on a werewolf
produces the target’s name among the People, unless the
target thinks of himself primarily by his human name.
If the target has some reason to hide his name, such
as a vampire who avoids people he knew in life or an undercover
cop, then a reflexive, contested Resolve + Primal
Urge roll may be made for the target. The target remains
unaware of the Gift being used, and of his resistance.
Exceptional Success: The character learns all the
names to which the target answers (assuming the subject
doesn’t successfully contest the roll). For example, she
may learn the birth name, Uratha deed name and current
nickname of a subject werewolf.
Traveler’s Blessing (••)
A werewolf’s road can take her a long way from home,
but spirits can guide her as she goes. This Gift teaches
the werewolf the basics of what she needs to know about
whatever human culture in which she finds herself. As she
calls on her spirit-wisdom, the local language settles into
her mouth and knowledge of local customs wraps around
her mind. Though still a stranger wherever she goes, she
need never be an ignorant one.
Cost: 1 Willpower per scene
Dice Pool: Wits + Streetwise + Wisdom
Action: Reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character receives a dangerous
mix of misinformation and true information. She
gains only basic fluency in the local language, and her
faulty information imposes a –1 penalty to all Social rolls
for the remainder of the scene.
Failure: The werewolf learns nothing she didn’t
already know.
Success: The werewolf gains competent fluency in
the most commonly spoken language of the area that she
doesn’t already know. A werewolf in Texas who already
speaks English but not Spanish gains fluency in Span-