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designed to directly damage an individual, but it can sure as
hell do so indirectly, causing thousands of dollars in property
damage alone. In times of drought, the power of this Gift can
be a great boon. The downpour lasts for a scene.
Those caught in heavy rain suffer a –2 penalty to
perception rolls and ranged combat.
Exceptional Success: The character can select an
area that receives less or no rain, effectively creating an
eye of the storm.
Suggested Modifiers
Modifier Situation
+2 The weather is already raining or drizzling
+1 A heavily clouded day
–3 A cloudless day
–5 Desert or other similarly arid area
Killing Frost (••••)
This Gift summons forth the chill of a hundred winters
in the space of a few heartbeats. The Storm Lords speak
reverently of this Gift as “the breath of Winter Wolf.”
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Survival + Purity
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Gift’s power turns against the
werewolf. The user immediately takes two points of lethal
damage from the cold.
Failure: The temperature drops by only a degree or two.
Success: The temperature suddenly drops below
freezing within 10 yards per dot of Primal Urge of the user.
Frost forms on surfaces, and water freezes. If the Gift is
used within a rainstorm, the sudden freezing rain might
down power lines and break tree branches. Living creatures
take two points of bashing damage from the sudden
chill. In addition, anyone in the area suffers a –2 penalty
to Strength and Dexterity rolls for as long as the cold lasts
(though they don’t take additional damage in subsequent
turns). The reduced temperature lasts for one turn per
success. At the Storyteller’s discretion, any creatures who
are appropriately protected from the cold may take less
damage or be immune to the imposed penalties.
The Gift user is protected from the direct effects of
the cold, but may be subject by secondary effects. The
cold doesn’t injure him or cause any debilitating effects,
but he might still slip when trying to move across ice or be
injured by a falling power line.
This Gift can be used only once per scene.
Exceptional Success: The sudden shock of cold is
particularly vicious; living creatures suffer three points of
damage instead of two.
Suggested Modifiers
Modifier Situation
+2 Winter
–2 Summer
Thunderbolt (•••••)
This Gift implores a mighty thunderbird to turn its
gaze earthward and fix its flashing eyes on a select target.
At the werewolf’s command, lightning strikes his foe, its
power capable of killing most mortals and severely wounding
even supernatural opponents.
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: Intelligence + Survival + Glory – Defense
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The bolt strikes a random target
nearby, be it friend or foe.
Failure: The werewolf’s call is ignored.
Success: The bolt deals a base of five points of lethal
damage, plus any extra successes from the activation roll
after the first. The werewolf can nominate any target
within his line of sight, as long as the victim is outdoors or
standing near a window.
Exceptional Success: The blast also deafens the
target for two turns.
Suggested Modifiers
Modifier Situation
+2 Rain or windy weather
+1 Cloudy day
–3 Cloudless sky
RITES
Rites represent the werewolf ability to invoke their
distant spirit cousins, calling upon ancient bans and pacts
that were struck when the world was new. Many human
attempts at spirit ritual are echoes of the true power of a
rite, a power that was lost to mortals at the time of the Susuru
Hafarrakum. Werewolves can still make these ancient
rituals work. Their half-spirit nature and claimed blood
ties to both Father Wolf and Luna give their voices an
urgency that mortals cannot match. These rituals must be
performed in the proper manner to draw a spirit’s response
and imbue the ceremony with supernatural power.
The following isn’t an exhaustive list of rites. Most of
the rites detailed here have existed for thousands of years
among the Uratha. In fact, many of them predate the Sundering.
These rituals are simply the most common ones,
found wherever werewolves are. The majority of these rites
are known to the Pure Tribes as well as the Forsaken.
ACQUIRING RITES
An alternative to choosing a Gift at character creation
is the Rituals trait. The “free pick” with which you can
normally choose a Gift from any list is traded for a single
dot in Rituals. (No more than one dot can be acquired at
character creation.) That dot grants your character access to
the rites that Uratha culture knows and teaches its members.
Presumably your character’s early days after the First Change
Rites
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