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Garou sometimes volunteer to join Charyss’ Brood. Some werewolves serve as payment for their purification. For others, helping others is part of their own healing — through this they cure their lin­ gering pain and gain understanding of themselves.

Charyss meets with everyone who offers their service. She rejects some as their motives are impure. Others, she turns away because they are ill-suited to the task. She judges some to be better served by being tossed into the waters. She decides some are acceptable and takes them into the ranks of the Brood.

Charyss has millennia of experience in match­ ing a new Brood member’s skills and needs with the roles. She assigns most to assist Cerberus in guarding the borders of the Realm, or to watch the shores for emerging penitents. She recognizes a certain quality in a few who she inducts directly into the fortress to be trained in the arts of harrowing or castigation.

The Incarna shapes the outer forms of all new Brood to the towering silver or black Crinos regard­ less of the role she assigns them. Charyss returns their original shape when their service comes to an end, but the Brood form prevents them from leaving Erebus.

and these mirrors are the gateways. These psychopomps wear robes over their Crinos forms — blood red for Harrowers and white for Castigators. They work in pairs to step through the mirrors and into each sufferer’s mind. Here they work to seek out the sources of guilt, force the Garou to confront each and acknowledge her failure, and then purge her of sin.