Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

Pure managed to use murderous rituals to summon the
avatar of one of their mighty wolf-totems, feeding it
humans to keep it tractable? If so, then certainly they’ll
set it on the pack soon. But how can a pack stand against
an avatar of Rabid Wolf, Silver Wolf or even Dire Wolf?
They must find a way to counteract the Pure pack’s magic
and banish its totem, and then find a way to survive the
inevitable retribution of the Pure themselves.
• Deceptive Dreams: The pack’s Cahalith begins
having prophetic dreams every night about different parts
of the territory being in danger. As the pack hunts down
the supposed agents provocateurs, however, they find no
evidence that the Cahalith’s premonitions were accurate.
Yet the dreams keep coming, and they foretell dangers that
cannot simply go ignored… if they’re true. What’s really
going on is that a spirit of discord has found a way to influence
the Cahalith’s dreams in hopes of driving a wedge of
distrust between him and his packmates. The evidence is
there in the events of the dreams — in the form of either
a recurring character or a symbolic motif — but can the
packmates figure it out before the damage is done?
• Idigam Unbound: The characters move into a
new territory only to discover that they have Spider Hosts
operating within. They hunt down and eliminate the Azlu
after a brutal struggle and then set about clearing away the
spirit webs the beings had been working so hard to reinforce.
Their efforts thin out the Gauntlet such that new
health and vitality floods the area, but in the heart of the
territory beneath the thickest blankets of webs, something
begins to stir. It’s something ancient and malevolent, and
it’s growing stronger the closer the werewolves draw to it.
• Lost in the Spirit World: The werewolves find out
that people have started to go missing from the territory
in unheard of numbers. Perhaps their families, their allies,
their contacts or just some familiar fixtures from the community
are among them. Investigations into the bizarre rash
of disappearances lead the werewolves to the local museum,
which has just received a new exhibit of rare and valuable
artifacts. One of these artifacts, they discover, has awakened
as a small locus, and as people come too close to it, they
are being drawn right through the Gauntlet to the spirit
world. The werewolves must then track down these lost and
frightened people and return them to the physical world.
The question then remains what to do with the dangerous
exhibit, and how to deal with the people who’ve been
exposed to the horrors beyond the Gauntlet.
ANTAGONIST S
The world of the Forsaken is a dangerous place.
Once a werewolf has been dragged from her ordinary
life by the discovery of her true heritage, she’s
thrust into an endless struggle to protect her territory
and packmates. Against her are arrayed a huge
range of antagonists. Some, like the Pure Tribes
or the Hosts, are aware of the werewolves’ charge
and actively work against it. Other, more obscure
creatures of darkness, have little or no understanding of
the werewolves’ role and see them simply as rivals for local
power or obstacles to their own ends.
And finally, there are the spirits and those they ride.
Policing the spirit world is the werewolves’ primary duty.
Any werewolf who isn’t dealing with spirits regularly is
neglecting her calling and allowing trouble to build up
across the Gauntlet — trouble that will quickly make itself
felt in the material world as well.
For more detail on the Shadow Realm and the spirits
that dwell there, see Appendix One.
HUMANS
Reveling in the power of their First Change, many
werewolves think that humans are now beneath
them, empty threats who cannot stand against
the sheer
physical
prowess of
a werewolf.
Mentors
are
quick to
beat into
the thick
heads of
their new
charges the
lesson that
humans
remain
exceptionally
dangerous. Like
a pack of prey animals,
humans are individually
weak but
collectively strong
enough to destroy
many predators.
Like spirits, humans
should be respected,
for their numbers,
intelligence and technological
prowess can
make them some of the
most deadly foes a pack
could encounter.
WOLF-BLOODED
HUNTER
Quote: “I swear
to God they’re
real. You’ll
believe
me soon
enough.”
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