{"id":"werewolf/power/rite/rite-of-the-flayed-god","type":"power","system":"rite","line":"werewolf","name":"Rite of the Flayed God","sources":[{"source":"BotW","page":125,"folio":124},{"source":"BotW","page":126,"folio":125}],"entries":["(Level Four Mystic Rite) This rite is among the most powerful and terrible practiced by the Wyrm’s children. It requires a captive spirit, and can only be performed in the heart of a Pit. Over the course of a ritual lasting from sunset to sunrise, the Black Spiral Dancer ritually murders and hollows out a spirit, usually a bound Gaian spirit, though some Hives are happy to sacrifice lesser Banes for power. This rite destroys the spirit forever, but a tattered shell of its power remains, and is bound into a special fetish. This fetish is an article of easily donned and removed clothing; usually a cloak or belt, and its construction must incorporate some element symbolic of the spirit. Thus, a flayed bear-spirit might be bound into a bear pelt, while a murdered forest spirit might be bound into a crown of hawthorn.","Upon donning the fetish, the Black Spiral Dancer is able to assume the stolen power of the flayed spirit. With this mantle of power usually comes a dramatic and grotesque physical transformation. The wearer of the bear pelt might grow a second set of powerful, ursine arms, and a gaping set of bear jaws might frame her head, granting her extra attacks and a vicious bite. The wearer of the hawthorn crown might find sharp thorns erupting from her flesh, and her scent masked by the verdant smell of the woods.",{"type":"header","text":"System","level":4},"The difficulty of the rite’s roll is the spirit’s Gnosis rating. Failure means that the spirit dies without empowering the fetish. Donning or removing a flayed spirit to gain its power costs two points of Gnosis. Only the ritemaster can benefit from a fetish created by this rite, and only one such fetish can be worn at a time. The exact effects of a fetish created by this rite are up to the Storyteller but the transformation is usually physical and grotesque. The benefits are comparable to the Gift: Totem Gift, though focused on personally empowering the werewolf."],"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/werewolf/power/rite/rite-of-the-flayed-god","html":"/records/werewolf/power/rite/rite-of-the-flayed-god","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/werewolf/power/rite/rite-of-the-flayed-god/children","sources":[{"abbr":"BotW","page":125,"folio":125,"title":"Book of the Wyrm"},{"abbr":"BotW","page":126,"folio":126,"title":"Book of the Wyrm"}]},"_db":{"title":"Rite of the Flayed God","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"(Level Four Mystic Rite) This rite is among the most powerful and terrible practiced by the Wyrm’s children. It requires a captive spirit, and can only be performed in the heart of a Pit.","tags":[],"children":[]}}