Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

Four-Dot: A fetish with a very useful, broadly applicable
power. If a weapon, it may have a consistently useful
power in addition to the simple damage it inflicts, or a
strong power that is used infrequently.
Five-Dot: A legendary fetish, certainly with a unique
name and story, possibly with more than one spirit bound
into it. If a weapon, it may inflict aggravated damage.
Winning a fetish of this magnitude might earn the bearer
a free experience point to be spent on a Glory or Honor
award. Creating such an item might be worth a free experience
point to be spent on Wisdom.
These sample fetishes should be sufficient to spur your
imagination to creating new and unique spiritual treasures
appropriate to your Werewolf chronicle.
KLAIVES
For many werewolves, teeth and claws are the only
weapons they ever need. But the Uratha also have a long
history of forging weapons and binding spirits into them to
increase their power. These fetish weapons are called klaives.
A klaive is a hand-to-hand weapon — a sword, dagger,
spear, axe, hammer or other implement of destruction.
A werewolf in the throes of Rage isn’t capable of using
such delicate, finesse weapons, and klaives are made
for the sort of life-and-death situations in which Rage is
quick to rise. Werewolves of all tribes use klaives. The
Blood Talons favor klaives that emphasize strength, such
as heavy axes and hammers. The Bone Shadows and
Storm Lords prefer klaives that can be used with a bit
more finesse, such as daggers and swords. The Hunters in
Darkness favor spears and daggers for their utility outside
of combat. The Iron Masters sometimes make fetish
weapons that other werewolves refuse to call “klaives”
— sharpened jags of metal torn from steel pipes, clubs
made from “found objects,” and other variations on
urban brutality.
Activating a klaive is normally a reflexive action that
invokes the weapon’s power for the remainder of a scene.
Even without being activated, a klaive is still a solidly
made weapon of its type.
TALENS
Any werewolf can create a talen, provided she knows
the Fetish Rite (p. 162). Werewolves often use talens as a
kind of quick currency among themselves. All talens can
be used only once before reverting to an ordinary object of
appropriate form.
DECAY DUST
This talen, fashioned from the dust or ashes of any
once-living thing, causes one human-sized corpse to decay
into dust within one turn. Any spirit of decomposition
can empower this talen. The effect doesn’t work on the
bodies of zombies, vampires or the undead, only on inanimate
corpses.
Action: Instant
MOON’S ALLURE
Made from crushed flower petals, this powder mitigates
the effect that Lunacy has on humans. When the
powder is sprinkled on a human subject, her Willpower is
considered to be three dots higher than normal when exposed
to the maddening sight of a werewolf’s supernatural
powers. A cat-spirit empowers this talen. The effect lasts
for the remainder of the scene.
Action: Instant
STORM ARROW
Typically fashioned with a mundane arrow, one of
these talens can also be created from a stone, a bullet or
any other projectile. When it strikes a target (requiring a
successful attack roll), a localized thunderclap sounds. A
reflexive Wits + Resolve roll is made for the target struck.
If it fails, the victim is stunned temporarily and suffers a
–2 modifier on his next action. The effect occurs in addition
to any damage inflicted. Storm-spirits are used to
empower these talens.
Action: Reflexive
WOLFSBANE
Human legend ascribes many properties to this plant,
the ability to repel or “cure” werewolves among them. This
isn’t true, of course, but properly prepared, wolfsbane can
force a werewolf into human form. The user simply blows
the dust of the plant into the target’s face. Doing so successfully
can be handled like touching an opponent, with
Dexterity + Brawl (see the World of Darkness Rulebook,
p. 157). A victim changes to Hishu form immediately
unless a successful, reflexive Stamina + Composure roll is
made for him. A target in the throes of Death Rage cannot
be brought under control with wolfsbane. He remains
in Gauru form. A wolf-spirit empowers this talen.
Action: Instant
ONE-DOT FETISHES
Characters might be given a fetish of this power upon
being accepted into a tribe or by a mentor upon completing
a Rite of Passage. Even a relatively unskilled ritemaster
can create a fetish this powerful.
BLESSING OF VIGOR (•)
Children of all species operate in short bursts of energy
that their elders find dizzying. A werewolf who binds
a cub-spirit into a fetish can benefit from this energy.
Upon activation, a Cub’s Vigor fetish grants a +2 modifier
on any Physical-Attribute-based action. The next turn,
however, the energy wears off and the werewolf suffers a
–2 modifier to all Physical Attribute-based rolls made for
that turn. (That includes any Stamina rolls made reflexively
as contested actions.) This fetish can be used only
once per scene.
Action: Reflexive
Fetishes
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