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So, having been asked a few times about how to feature Pangaeans in the modern world, there's obviously various ways to do it - I quite like the idea of any survivors now being extremely weird aberrations or phenomena that don't easily fit into any nice boxes. Here's another way of doing it, via the good old omphalos stone element...

Come See The Flowers
The village is not a pleasant place these days but the flowers, oh, the flowers are a sight to die for.

The problem started a few years ago when a proud, rich fellow decided to move back into the village he’d...

[Acrozatarim]

Yeah, it should be split into two. Not sure how that happened....

[Acrozatarim]

How about another royal avatar, huh?


Royal Avatar: Hunger-of-Ages
Everything ends. All the works of man will fall into ruin. No monument to the folly of civilization will stand the test of time. The endeavours and accomplishments of a human life are but the blink of the world’s eye, flesh turned to dirt and stone ground to dust in what seems like a flash to the great, enduring forces of existence—and even those great forces will fold and buckle before the ravening hunger of time itself.

Hunger-of-Ages is a facet of Dire Wolf, an aspect torn away and...

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The Hangmen
The world is a place of blurred lines, filled with strange exceptions to every would-be law laid down by those attempting to bind reality with categories and clear distinctions. Most Uratha wouldn’t bother to spare a moment’s thought for the idea that beings other than spirits of the Shadow might slither into the shape and space of a pack’s totem and bind werewolves together in sacred union. After all, generally, they can’t. It isn’t possible for a pack to seize any old ghost or phantasm in their talons and weave its essence into their bond – such an attempt will...

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Yeah, I agree with Bunyip - the Scouring Flame fall under the 'at risk' category of Bale Hound vulnerability, but they're not inherently Asah Gadar or anything. The Erinyes just don't believe there's any such thing as overkill!

[Acrozatarim]

This is absolutely NOT official; it's essentially a fan-creation, even if it's written by me, and I wouldn't expect it to turn up in a book....

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Lodge of the Grotto
Knackers, Trogdogs, Molerats
The dark caves beneath the earth are neither empty nor safe, for they are the hunting ground of the degenerate wolves of the Lodge of the Grotto. They come squirming through the pitch black, blindly worming their way through suffocatingly small gaps and cracks, licking at the air in taste of their prey. They tap the rock, tilting heads to catch the echoes. No escape and no solace awaits the victim who stumbles into the stone mazes that the Knackers prowl.

Unlike many Lodges, the Grotto doesn’t have any meaningful overarching...

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The Scouring Flame
Ash Dogs, Erinyes, Yuan Gui

The Scouring Flame are bloody-handed avengers, balancing the scales of karma through carnage and fire. They're ash-smeared, wide-eyed, bared-teeth tornadoes set on the trail of their victims by the pleas and petitions of those seeking retribution, and the Erinyes embrace the role whole-heartedly. For adherents of this Lodge, there's a form of purification to be found in perpetrating justice on behalf of another; the act of serving as a vessel for the vengeance cleanses their spirit, refines their soul, and grants them a sense of...

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Huh, for some reason, copying it across and pasting it in here removed all the semi-colons from the text in the process. Weird.

[Acrozatarim]

Hey folks. Someone was looking for some rogue-y and physical kinda advanced merits, so I hammered together this set that might be of interest to other people too.


Confounding Sleight (••)

Prerequisites: Sleight of Hand ••, Larceny ••••

Effect: Anyone searching your character suffers her Larceny dots as a penalty on their roll to find anything of Size 1 or less she is concealing about her person.

Duck And Dive (• to •••)

Prerequisites: Fast Reflexes •••, Fleet of Foot •••

Effect: Each dot of this merit removes...

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Another 1st edition Lodge given a 2nd edition brush-up! (This'll probably need some amendments once Shunned is out)


Lodge of the Saviour

Hounds of God, Apostles, Thiessians

Where demons prowl and spread their vile corruption, the Thessians give chase. Where reality itself burns with the fires of a Hell that is all to real, it is the Hounds of God who venture courageously forward. Dedicates of Luna and God, these werewolves reconcile the beliefs they carried before the First Change with the insane reality of the Shadow and its darkest masters. Cursed...

[Acrozatarim]

As with Bird, Snake is written up in terms of her effects on the scene, rather than her personal abilities - as a Rank 7 entity, there's not any point trying to stat the actions she can directly take if she so chooses.

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SNAKE
Snake is the coiling, writhing twin-reflection-sister-foe-friend-lover of Bird, a tangled mess of contradictions, mania, despair, and sharply lucid moments of divine insight. She is poison and salvation, a mother’s kind warmth and the bitter sting of spiteful betrayal, seer of possibilities and prisoner of paranoia. The Vinca revere Snake for her dualities, her manifold aspects all rolled up together despite their conflicts. They invoke her to heal and to harm, to bring good fortune, and see her as reflecting that which lies within each person—the internal clashes of the many aspects...

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I'll pop Snake up in this thread in a bit. The Either/Or effects can switch at whatever rate the Storyteller chooses, whether from turn to turn, scene to scene, or day to day.

[Acrozatarim]

How about a new kind of human antagonist, eh?

Few humans have the perceptiveness to discover the world of spirits; of those, fewer still have the mental resilience to deal with such a discovery, and yet fewer have the wits and cleverness to actually survive interactions with the alien beings slithering through the fabric of reality. There’s no handy user manual for the budding shaman or would-be witch, no-one who can help and explain what’s going on when you’ve caught the attention of things with too many eyes that are made from raw emotion. Libraries on the Shadow and its denizens...

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Here's some new rites that someone asked me to put together - don't think I've posted them on the forum as yet! These are a bunch of curses, very much focused on being unpleasant to hapless victims.

Nightmare Rain (Wolf Rite •••••)

Through invocations that bind spirits of rain and darkness, this curse besets a region with a torrent of rain and misfortune.

Symbols: Rain, darkness, fear, poison

Cost: 5 Essence

Action: Extended (20 successes; each roll represents an hour)

Duration: 1 month

Success: The Essence used to fuel this rite must come from a locus of water or rain, darkness,

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