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Appendix I: The Spirit World
• Living Fetter: This variation on Fetter allows
the spirit to fetter itself in a living being rather than an
inanimate object. The same rules and restrictions as Fetter
apply, save that the spirit must first succeed at a Power +
Finesse roll contested by the target’s Resolve + Composure.
A successful use of this Numen creates one of the
Ridden, specifically a Spirit-Urged (see p. 282). The spirit
essentially uses the living being as a fetter and its Influence
to impel its “host.”
• Materialize: This Numen allows a spirit to change
its form from ephemera to matter, dropping it abruptly
through the Gauntlet into the material world. The spirit’s
physical form appears in the material world just as it did
in the Shadow, and all its Numina and Influences function
as normal. All rules for spirit traits in the spirit world
apply equally to a materialized spirit. Spend three Essence
and roll the spirit’s Power + Finesse to allow it to reshape
itself into matter. The number of successes indicates the
number of hours that it can remain in the material world
before reverting to ephemera. The spirit must then choose
between remaining in the material world (and either
anchoring itself or losing a point of Essence every hour) or
slipping immediately back through the Gauntlet.
• Material Vision: A spirit with this Numen can
briefly look through the Gauntlet into the material world.
Roll the spirit’s Power + Finesse. The number of successes
indicates the number of minutes the spirit can spend
watching through the Gauntlet.
• Possession: The spirit can attempt to possess a
living human being and control his or her body for a short
time. Spend one Essence point and roll Power + Finesse in
a contested roll versus the victim’s Resolve + Composure.
If the spirit wins, it gains control of the victim’s body for
the duration of a single scene. Use the victim’s available
traits (except Willpower points, which are equal to the
ghost’s current Willpower points) and dice pools for any
action the ghost wishes to take. If the mortal wins or ties
the roll, the spirit fails its possession attempt. As long as
the spirit has Essence points remaining, it can continue to
make possession attempts against a target. If a possessed
body is killed or knocked unconscious, the spirit is forced
out and must possess another victim if it still wishes to act.
This is the Numen used by the Spirit Thieves (p. 284).
• Reaching: This Numen allows a spirit to use its
other Numina through the Gauntlet. Roll Power + Finesse
(subject to Gauntlet modifiers) to successfully create a
resonant conduit through the Gauntlet for the spirit to
use its next Numen. Reaching lasts for the duration of the
next scene.
• Wilds Sense: Spirits can automatically sense
where other spirits and locations are in their immediate
vicinity. If they want to find loci or track down spirits
miles distant, however, they must use this Numen, which
allows them to sense the small resonant traces left by a
spirit’s passage or emitted by a far-distant locus. Roll the
spirit’s Finesse + Resistance, with more successes giving
more accurate information. One success suggests a vague
sense of direction, while five successes would give accurate
directions, an idea of travel time and warnings of hazards
en route.
GIFT S AS NUMINA
Spirits can confer their blessings on werewolves
as Gifts, and some make use of these powers in similar
fashion. Many werewolf Gifts can serve a double role as
Numina. To use a Gift in this fashion, simply convert the
required roll into an appropriate trait roll. For instance, to
use Silent Fog as a Numen, roll Power + Finesse instead of
Manipulation + Survival + Cunning.
The following Gifts are appropriate for conversion
into Numina:
Balm, Call the Breeze, Call Water, Command Fire,
Communion with the Land, Deluge, Forest Communion,
Invoke the Wind’s Wrath, Iron-Rending, Know the Path,
Left-Handed Spanner, Manipulate Earth, Nightfall, Omen
Gazing, Plant Growth, Rage Armor, Sense Weakness,
Silent Fog, Thunderbolt, Unspoken Communication
SPIRIT BANS
All spirits have bans — specific weaknesses that can
affect their behavior or rob them of a portion of their
power. The Uratha aren’t certain exactly why all spirits are
subject to bans, or why the first bans were levied (or even
by whom) — they simply are. The spirit world plays by its
own rules, which are more symbolic than scientific.
A ban is directly tied to the relative power and intelligence
of the spirit in question. Gafflings tend to have
simple bans that are easily triggered, while Incarnae frequently
have strange and obscure bans that could greatly
weaken them if their rivals discovered their nature. A
ban might prohibit a code of behavior, temporarily keep a
spirit from using its Numina, or even make it very vulnerable
to attack. It’s commonly accepted in werewolf legend
that Mother Luna’s ban is to change her very nature along
with her face, allowing her only one-fifth of her full potential
at any one time.
In some cases, discovering and exploiting a spirit’s
ban allows werewolves to accomplish things they could
not manage by fang and claw alone. The powerful idigam
were overcome and banished or bound once more only
when the Uratha managed to discover their bans, one at a
time. In addition, the most reliable way to break the bond
between a spirit using the Living Fetter or Possession Numina
and its host is to force the host into contact with the
spirit’s ban. For instance, burning rue in the presence of a
person ridden by a Nocuoth (p. 245) will force the disease
Jaggling to flee if its host directly inhales the smoke.
Bans are usually assigned by the Storyteller, especially
in the case of powerful and unique spirits. Learning a
spirit’s ban can be the focus of one arc of a story, involving
research, interrogating other spirits, questioning other