Bestiary

The Garou rightly describe many things as “Wyrm tainted,” and one of their most common Gifts helps them to detect the presence of the Corrupter’s spiritual effluvia. Indeed, one of the major purposes of Pentex is to flood the world with Wyrm-tainted products, from toys, makeup, and films to food, drink, and therapeutic retreats. But what does eating Wyrm-tainted food and using Wyrm-tainted products do to a person?

It does a lot of small, subtle things. It makes people a tiny bit quicker to anger, it makes them a little less tolerant of those around them, it makes dark thoughts and selfish urges rise up more easily than they otherwise might. But the biggest and — from the perspective of Pentex — most important result is that Wyrm-tainted individuals are much easier targets for the Possession Charm (see W20, p. 367). Depending on the severity of the Wyrm-taint a person has taken into himself, the

difficulty of the Possession Charm lowers by between –1 and –3. As Pentex’s profits rise, the number of fomori grow year by year.

In essence, when the Garou look upon the twisted face of a fomor, they’re witnessing the future the Wyrm has in store for the entire human race.