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Chapter III: Special Rules and Systems
that week. (If they haven’t defeated an enemy, the werewolves
must burn some other symbolic representation of their victories.)
The pack must continually work toward the protection
of the rivers, stopping humans from polluting them. All pack
members are required to consume only meat, never ingesting
any vegetable matter (unless they eat the stomachs of their
prey, of course).
• Severity Four (16–20 Totem points): At this level
of power, the totem requires daily veneration. This veneration
might not be elaborate, but it’s essential to maintaining
a good relationship with the totem. The totem might
instead ask for impeccable devotion to a cause or ideal, or
it might set a highly restrictive taboo for the werewolves
to follow (and punish them harshly if they break it). This
requirement or taboo might be easily turned against the
pack, but the pack must strive to maintain it nonetheless.
Bans at this level of severity should be felt during almost
every game session. The characters should think of their
totem as a spiritual parent on par with (or even surpassing)
their tribal totems.
Examples: The pack must pray to the totem five times a
day, taking no less than two full minutes during each session.
No member of the pack may fall below Harmony 8. The pack
members must eat everything served to them.
• Severity Five (21–25 Totem points): With mighty
gifts come great costs. At this level, the pack is utterly
devoted to the totem and what it represents. If a werewolf
serves in this capacity a totem that isn’t allied with his
tribal totem, he might receive visits from messengers of
his tribal totem, asking for shows of faith to that spirit as
well as his pack totem. At this level, however, totems have
invested so much energy in a pack that the pack itself
can be a threat to nearly any spirit… and the spirits have
seen the Uratha as threats for a long time. Bans for packs
at this plateau of power might seem harsh, but they’re in
place for what their totems see as a very good reason.
The pack totem might ask nearly anything of the
pack, regardless of what kind of danger it puts them in
(though no totem leads its pack into certain death; that’s
counterproductive). The totem might ask that the pack
members aspire to be perfect paragons of Harmony, at all
times, with no room for exception. (In game terms, any
sin rated at 6 or lower severs the connection to the totem
until reparations can be made.) The totem might ask the
pack members to deny an essential part of who they are as
humans, wolves or werewolves. Some totems might actually
require that their characters break the Oath as part
of their ban (not all spirits are allied to Luna or care for
the Oath of the Moon, after all). Spirits who do this aren’t
common choices for patronage, though.
Examples: The pack must feast on their slain foes’
hearts. No member of the pack may fall below Harmony 9.
The pack must accept every challenge and never back down
from a fight.
BAN EFFECT S ON TOTEM COST S
Taking a more serious ban than necessary can reduce
the point cost of the totem somewhat, but this isn’t recommended.
The Totem points that the players spend are