Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

werewolves or even making educated guesses. If the Storyteller
feels that a particular ban is well known enough
that a character might’ve heard of it, she should roll the
character’s Intelligence + Occult at a penalty equal to two
dice for every Rank of the spirit. Success indicates that
the character remembers some tidbit related to the ban;
exceptional success indicates that the character knows
the exact nature of the ban. A dramatic failure, however,
means that the character believes an incorrect ban to be
true, which gives the spirit a dangerous edge in their next
encounter.
SPIRIT CREATION
1. Choose choir and Rank. If the spirit is more powerful
than a Gaffling, give some thought as to whether it’s a
pure spirit, a spirit of one descant or an idealized spirit of
the choir alone, without descant. Gafflings are not powerful
enough to be considered part of a descant.
2. Select Attributes. Divide the number of dots allocated
according to the spirit’s Rank as you wish among
Power, Finesse and Resistance.
3. Determine Corpus. The spirit’s Corpus is equal to
the Size of the object that spawned it (count as 2 for an
abstract spirit) + Resistance.
4. Choose Influences. The spirit gains one dot of
Influence per dot of Rank.
5. Choose Numina. The spirit has three Numina, plus
two extra for each dot of Rank beyond the first.
6. Determine Advantages. Willpower (Power + Resistance);
Initiative (Finesse + Resistance); Speed (Power +
Finesse +10 or a species factor representative of the spirit’s
physical reflection); and Defense (equal to the highest of
Power and Finesse).
7. Determine starting Essence. A spirit can have any
number of Essence points, up to the maximum Essence
listed for its rank.
8. Determine Ban. The spirit’s ban should reflect both
its nature and its level of power. The harder the ban is
to uncover and exploit, the more significantly it should
weaken the spirit.
TYPES OF SPIRIT S
“Whatever is in creation, has a spirit.” That saying is
the first thing a Ithaeur mentor teaches a young charge. It
seems to be a statement of the obvious, but like so many
such statements, it’s a signpost on the road to wisdom. The
spirit world is a complete reflection of the material world,
and everything in the physical world has the potential to
cast its own spirit reflection. For convenience and educational
purposes, werewolves use broad categories of spirits
to describe groups of choirs with common characteristics.
Some of these groupings are recognized by the spirits
themselves, such as the elementals, while others are simply
useful terminology for werewolves.
NAT URE SPIRIT S
By far the most abundant spirits in most werewolves’
territories are the nature spirits. The untold descants of
nature-spirits are the oldest and most directly reflected
denizens of Shadow. From the least insect-spirit to the
mythical Celestine said to represent the earth itself, they
are the ephemeral embodiments of a Nature red in tooth
and claw.
SPIRIT RANKS
Rank† Representative Spirits Trait Limits* Attribute Dots Maximum Essence
1 Lesser Gafflings 5 dots 5-8 10
2 Greater Gafflings 7 dots 9-14 15
3 Lesser Jagglings 9 dots 15-25 20
4 Greater Jagglings 12 dots 26-35 25
5 Minor gods/Incarnae 15 dots 36-45 50
6 Lesser gods/Incarnae — ** ** **
7 Greater gods/Incarnae — ** **
8 Lesser Celestines (Luna, Helios)*** — ** **
9 Greater Celestines (Gaia, Luna, Helios)*** — ** **
10 Beyond manifest conception (Gaia?)*** — ** **
† Each dot levies a –1 modifier on attempts to forcibly bind that spirit.
* These represent permanent dots, not temporarily boosted traits.
** Spirits above Rank 5 don’t need traits. Their abilities so far outstrip even the greatest of the Uratha that rolling dice
for them would be meaningless. They are, to all intents and purposes, godlike beings.
*** It remains a debate, even among the wisest Ithaeur, exactly what Rank some of these entities are supposed to be,
and who outranks whom. This is almost certainly exactly the way the spirits like it.
Types of Spirits
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