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Chapter III: Special Rules and Systems
Finally, during winter, lodge members interact with
the spirit world in less hostile fashion. They spend much
of the season traveling the Hisil and speaking with their
ancestors, if they have the means, learning what they
can from the past and the dead, ready to put that information
to use once the world awakens again. When they
bother to hold gatherings during the winter, they usually
do so on nights of the crescent or half moon, attempting
to gain Wisdom or Honor for their efforts.
Prerequisites: Purity •••
Membership: The Lodge of Seasons is open to Hunters
in Darkness, although a few Forsaken of other tribes
are very rarely adopted.
Any Hunter in Darkness may join the lodge by
“living the seasons” (i.e., by following the lodges’ drives
during the seasons for a full year). During that year, other
members periodically watch her, hunt with her and question
her to make sure she’s of the proper mindset. When
the year is over, the Uratha is sent into the soirit wilds on
a month-long quest to determine her favored season. If
she returns successfully, she’s inducted into the lodge. If
not, she’s free to live the lodge’s precepts, but the members
never accept her as one of them.
Benefits: Each member of the Lodge of Seasons has a
favored season, and that period determines a class of Gifts
that the Uratha can learn as tribal Gifts. The favored
seasons are: spring (Weather), summer (Rage), autumn
(Insight) and winter (Death).
IRON MASTERS —
THE LODGE OF LIGH TNING
The Iron Masters pride themselves on adaptation.
They walk in the cities because they can, and learn to use
whatever tools they can in addition to their claws and fangs.
But even the Iron Masters look in guarded wonder at the
members of their Lodge of Lightning. Those guys are crazy.
Lightning, as the members of this lodge hold, is not
a chaotic force. It forms from predictable factors and its
force is measurable. Only its direction is random (and
even that isn’t entirely true). As such, Lightning-Dancers
tend to be very focused, but their intensity is off-putting.
They do everything they do with everything they have,
meaning that their spiritual rites continue for days if necessary,
until they get the results they want. Needless to say,
members of the Lodge of Lightning are terrifying warriors,
because they don’t stop fighting until their enemies are
bested or until they can no longer move a muscle.
The Lodge of Lightning reveres Red Wolf, but it also
takes spiritual patronage from Lightning itself. This spirit
is called many different names by many different cultures
— Ogun, Zeus, Raiden, Thor — but the Lightning-Dancers
recognize it as the spirit of precision, inspiration and
focused power.
The Lightning-Dancers aren’t secretive at all. Their
attitude gives them away before the trinkets of glass
they wear (created where lightning strikes sand) ever
do. They’re daredevils, innovators and madmen, leaping
headlong into the fray like a thunderbolt. They know no
other way to live.
Prerequisites: Cunning ••, Wits •••
Membership: The Lodge of Lightning is open to
all Iron Masters. Debate rages in the lodge as to whether
allowing Uratha of other tribes would be acceptable,
especially Storm Lords. The Iminir, after all, share some
affinity with Lightning through their own tribal totem.
As for the other tribes, not all Uratha eschew technology.
The current decision is that if a werewolf would be willing
to forsake his tribe and join the Iron Masters, the lodge
would accept him without so much as a test.
For those Iron Masters who wish to join, however,
initiation is simple and harsh. The lodge’s philosophies
of focused energy and constant intensity can very easily
burn a new recruit out. A would-be Lightning-Dancer
finds a mentor within the lodge and asks for training. The
patron then takes his new pupil on a whirlwind of activity,
travel, investigation, research, battle and spirit exploration.
When the pupil is ready to fall over from exhaustion,
the mentor pushes harder. If, at that point, the pupil finds
a second wind and forges on, the lodge accepts her. If not,
she’s rejected and allowed to try again as soon as she gets
her strength back.
Benefits: Lightning-Dancers are tough, tenacious and
fast. Hurting one is difficult, and hurting one enough to
knock him down is nearly impossible. They receive a +1
modifier die to any Stamina roll made to stay on their feet
or roll with an impact. Their second totem, Lightning,
grants them access to Weather Gifts as though they were
tribal Gifts.
STORM LORDS —
THE LODGE OF CROWS
The Storm Lords in general are ruthless and strategic,
but the Crows prefer working through manipulation rather
than direct confrontation. Some Crows are assassins, some
are superb, graceful warriors, but most often, if a Crow
wants an enemy dead, she manipulates someone else into
bloodying his claws.
The lodge follows Crow as well as Winter Wolf. Crow
is a spirit of death, and years of association with Winter
Wolf have made him dangerous and crafty. The legend
within the lodge holds that Crow began the lodge that
bears his name by simply telling two Storm Lords that
they’d been inducted into a secret society that had existed
for years. Neither of those two original Iminir guessed that
Crow was lying to them. It didn’t matter. Within two decades,
those two werewolves (who still live today, though
no one knows their names or locations) had expanded the
Lodge of Crows into a worldwide faction within the Storm
Lords. They demand absolute secrecy — Crows themselves
usually don’t recognize each other. They demand utter
ruthlessness, to the point of demanding that Crows com-