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When the Garou think of Spiral Kinfolk, they think of slouching, uneducated wretches, held as functional captives in a house of horrors or a radiation-blighted wasteland. They picture the monstrous families from The Texas Chainsaw

Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes, or huddled,

catatonic victims who spend their lives as the victims of sadistic violence.

Often, they’re right. It happens, frequently. However, the more influential members of the tribe discourage such wasteful practices. Kin­ folk are one of the few things which cause the Spirals to exercise any restraint. They’re simply too valuable, useful, and necessary to squander intentionally and the hives that keep their Kinfolk in radioactive breeding camps tend to destroy themselves within a generation or two.

Still, the stereotype, and practice, persists. The Song of the Spiral makes it clear that how a werewolf treats his family is her business and hers alone.

him much about himself, and afforded him great intrigue. According to his own words, Scala held communion with the Wyrm for thirteen years, only emerging when he was 26. During that time, he claimed to have met and guided a number of powerful Garou, who had come deep into the Spiral to seek the wisdom of the Wyrm. Many of these were Garou who were now powerful and influential members of the 13 tribes. Certainly, his words inspired wrath and unleashed conflict among the Garou. Still more Black Spiral Dancers emerged to say they recognized his face or his voice, from dreams, or in the fleeting memories they held of the Labyrinth, in which he aided them.

In any case, Scala’s reputation has guaranteed him an audience, and his opinions and writings are widely circulated and hotly debated, both by Spiral hives and by those Garou who believe there is power in study­ ing the works of the enemy. Below are his thoughts on the Garou tribes, thoughts that reflect the identity of the Black Spiral Dancers, and how they view their erstwhile cousins.