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As the Spirals seek to unlock the Ancients, a few Garou strive to stop them. A battleground the Garou and the Spirals share, because the Ancients represent their mutual history and connection to Gaia. The Wyrm is distant at best, insane, and indecipherable as a matter of course, but the Ancients are something wholly of Gaia. They represent a mutuality between the Garou and the Spirals, and a particular way in which all Garou might use the spirits of the Earth itself to bring about disaster, tragedy, or a new, unnatural era of gods and chaos and misrule.

Tragically, few Garou in the modern age are even aware of the lore of the Ancients, swept up as they are in the far more obvious battle against the Wyrm. Even the ancient Mokolé barely rec­ ollect them as a shadow in the deepest recesses of Mnesis — but should Gaia’s memory realize the designs of the Black Spiral Dancers, it might be enough to draw them from their wallows to re-establish contact with the Garou.

ing bound spirits, far-speaking fetishes, and enthralled decoys. Such communion requires fastidiousness and cleverness, but if successful, it grants the Spirals Gifts the Garou have never seen, and potent supernatural allies who can tell them about the powers and forces from the time before, powers they might yet let loose on Earth.