The Spiral Awaits Those with Open Eyes
Gift · Werewolf
The Litany commands the Garou are to accept an honorable surrender. The Black Spirals have no such injunction. They give their conquered foes a chance to look into the Spiral Within — the darkness in their own hearts — and see the truth of the pointlessness of their struggle. Beyond despair, the physical Black Spiral awaits, ready to take the Garou to a place beyond pain.
It may surprise some that the Spirals do not always summarily dismember and devour Garou who surrender but do not submit. Long ago, the Black Spirals learned that such actions deify the ruined Garou, elevating them to the status of martyr. Such empowering myths drive their enemies’ rage, making them implacable and dangerous, whereas releasing a broken and beaten captive creates a general horror in the Garou populace. Each Garou believes that they will go down fighting; none wants to believe that he or she will be the one who breaks and falls to her knees in surrender.
Moreover, the Garou tend to lose trust, faith, and respect for one the Spirals threw back, seeing him as a seed of corruption, a traitor, or worse: an example of spiritual failure.