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Chapter II: Character
If the Gift user has changed into and out of Gauru
form this scene, a roll to resist Death Rage is made and
the victim still loses turns available in Gauru form.
Exceptional Success: As a success. The extra turns
are the exceptional reward.
Rekindled Rage (••••)
Normally a werewolf character can enter Gauru form
only once per scene (with the exception of Death Rage),
but a werewolf who has mastered this Gift is not so limited.
With a successful Stamina + Expression + Glory roll
and the expenditure of one Willpower point, the werewolf
can enter Gauru an additional time in the same scene,
though the second transformation will not last as long.
A character can use this Gift only after he has entered
and let lapse his first Gauru Rage in a scene.
A character may use the Hone Rage Gift in a Rekindled
Rage, and he is equally susceptible to the Leach
Rage Gift. Or he can use the Rekindled Rage Gift in one
turn and then use Leach Rage on a Raging victim in a
subsequent turn.
Cost: 1 Willpower
Dice Pool: Stamina + Expression + Glory
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character enters Death Rage
automatically, with no chance to forestall it by spending
Willpower.
Failure: The character fails to rekindle his Rage and
is unable to use the Gift again in the same scene.
Success: The character rekindles his Rage. The
player makes a new shapeshifting roll (or spends a point
of Essence) to assume Gauru form and enter a controlled
Rage in a scene in which he has already done so. The
character can remain in Gauru form for a number of turns
equal to Stamina + Primal Urge -2.
Exceptional Success: As a success, except that the
duration of the second Rage is normal.
Soured Rage (•••••)
A werewolf in Rage is a powerful warrior and ally. A
werewolf with this Gift, however, can turn that warrior’s
power into a liability by souring that Rage and taking control
of it out of an unsuspecting victim’s hands. With an ugly First-
Tongue curse, the Gift user poisons a victim’s Rage such that
it is overridden by the instinct for self-preservation.
With the expenditure of one Essence point and a successful
Manipulation + Intimidation + Purity roll, the Gift
user turns a victim’s controlled Rage into the self-preservation
instinct of a badly wounded werewolf in the thrall
of Kuruth. The victim suffers no actual damage, but if his
contested Composure + Primal Urge roll does not net him
as many or more successes than rolled for the user, he loses
control of himself and flees for the rest of the scene in a
mindless Death Rage of self-preservation.
This Gift works only on a subject who is already in
Gauru form, but it doesn’t matter if he’s been in it long
enough to accrue wound penalties. If the subject is already
suffering from wound penalties when this Gift is used, he
seeks to escape automatically. A werewolf cannot use this
Gift if he’s currently in his own Gauru form. Nor does the
Gift affect a werewolf who is already in a Death Rage.
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Intimidation + Purity
versus Composure + Primal Urge
Action: Contested; resistance is reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The victim enters a Death Rage of
mindless destruction rather than self-preservation.
Failure: If the user’s roll fails or the victim’s contested
roll nets as many or more successes than the user’s, nothing
happens. The user cannot use this Gift again on the
same victim for the remainder of the scene.
Success: The most successes are rolled for the Gift
user. The victim enters a mindless Death Rage of self-preservation,
just as he would if he were already in Kuruth and
had suffered enough damage to accrue wound penalties
and flee the scene. He remains in that state for the rest of
the scene and runs for his life with no regard for anything
or anyone around him.
Exceptional Success: As a success, and the victim
loses a Willpower point.
SHAPING GIFT S
It is with these Gifts that the Iron Masters first
earned their name, as well as how Luna expresses her
ever-changing nature through her Ithaeur. Werewolves
use these powers to craft fetishes, perform repairs, embellish
mundane objects or even sabotage the items of their
enemies.
To use these Gifts, a character must be in either Hishu
or Dalu form, and he must touch the item or substance
he’s trying to affect. He need not be in total control of the
object (especially if he’s trying to affect a select portion of
a large object). If someone else is in control of the item,
however — such as if he attempts to use Ruin on a sword
someone else is swinging — the Gift’s activation roll is contested
reflexively by the opponent’s Resolve + Primal-Urge.
These Gifts affect only non-living substances that
are already whole. A character could use Sculpt on a large
chunk of stone or dried asphalt, for example, but not a pile
of gravel. He could also use these Gifts on bone or wood
that is no longer part of the living organism from which it
was created. Other substances that are susceptible to these
Gifts include glass, any metal, plastic, brick, cardboard,
concrete, ice (but not liquid water) and rubber. Silver items
cannot be affected by this Gift. Nor can ones of supernatural
quality, such as enchanted items or undead flesh. An
existing fetish or talen cannot be altered or destroyed with
these Gifts, for example.