Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

Feats of Wisdom: Solving a great spiritual riddle; developing a new rite; binding a
potent spirit; discovering and exploiting an enemy spirit’s ban; creating or strengthening
a locus; negotiating a suitable compromise; any monumental act of logic, intelligence,
memory or intuition.
GAINING RENOWN
The Forsaken may snarl boasts to one another about the deeds they
perform and how they’re worthy of attention from Lunes, but it’s Luna’s
servants who fully bestow Renown.
In game terms, Renown is acquired with the expenditure of experience
points. Players may allocate the experience they earn to increase
their characters’ Renown traits. The process of increasing Renown
isn’t merely an act of assigning points and filling in dots,
though. A werewolf must behave in a manner that justifies
such an increase and exemplifies the Renown for which a
status increase is sought (or won). The “base expectations”
discussed previously address the kinds of behavior for which the
Lunes look. It can be performed publicly before other werewolves or
in private where no one else can see. The Lunes see, however, and
they know when a character has done something credible toward
a werewolf’s status. In short, the acquisition of Renown dots can be
equated to gaining them in any trait. If a player wants to spend experience
points for his character to gain a dot of Drive, but the character
never got behind the wheel in the last story, the Storyteller may rule
against the increase. So it goes with Renown. If a werewolf hasn’t exhibited
the behavior expected of an increase, a new dot isn’t warranted.
Therefore, there is a game-mechanic and in-setting requirement
to raising Renown. The Storyteller always has final say on whether a
character is eligible for a Renown increase. If a player announces that
he is increasing his character’s Purity, but the werewolf committed
sins against Harmony and broke the Oath in the latest story or game
session, the Storyteller can veto that acquisition. A werewolf must
earn a Renown increase. It isn’t just granted without justification,
even if the character’s pack is willing to lie to the spirits to attempt
to gain an unearned boost.
Similarly, repeating the same kinds of feats don’t warrant
successive increases in a type of Renown. Making a mistake in
dealing with spirits and learning from it might justify a dot of
Wisdom once, but demonstrating the lesson learned over and
over doesn’t rationalize subsequent trait increases. New and
increasingly impressive feats must be performed, especially as a
werewolf’s Renown rises. A task performed to earn recognition
from the Lunes and go from Glory • to •• is insufficient
to rise from ••• to ••••.
The Lunes formalize a Renown purchase via the
Rite of the Spirit Brand. Once the rite is performed, the
character’s new level of Renown is visible to all spirits,
and even to other werewolves once he enters the Shadow.
Following that confirmation, as an acknowledgement of
the character’s new rank, one of the werewolves in attendance
(usually the most senior Ithaeur) summons a spirit to
reward the newly advanced werewolf with a new Gift.
SYSTEMS
Characters begin with three dots of Renown at character
creation, at least two of which are assigned to the primary Renown
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