Bestiary

While they are no less complex than Gaian spirits like elementals or Naturae, the spirits that actively and directly serve different facets of the Triat are often easier to understand. Their masters’ goals make the spirits’ needs and purposes easier to predict. It’s easier to know what to ask and easier to know what to offer to get something out of them. This can be a controversial topic when it comes to dealing with Weaver and Wyrm spirits but tribes known to toe the line compare it to police officers and their informants.

Weaver spirits desire order and reject ambiguity. As simple as it seems, to remember that when dealing with a Pattern Spider their priorities aren’t like those of a neat-freak roommate. The Weaver seeks a state of ‘perfect’ unending order for the world, and its lesser servants exist for the sole purpose of reinforcing that. Something as simple as reporting a dangerous, chaotic event to the nearest Geomid shows that a werewolf has priorities worth assisting. The Weaver and its servants are patient and willing to stabilize the world one piece at a time.

Speaking of chaotic situations, Wyld spirits are difficult and slippery. Unlike most Gaian spirits, Wyld spirits often seem to come into being with no rhyme or reason. They come in recognizable breeds and categories but their very nature requires flexibility with labels and classification. They represent an active piece of primal chaos that has gone out into the world to change it in some way like sparks floating away from a bonfire. Enlisting their help is difficult and dangerous but Garou skilled at appealing to their erratic needs can find an ally suited to confounding the Weaver or Wyrm.

Banes are all too eager to speak with Garou approaching peacefully. The opportunity for temptation and corruption is almost too much for the typical Bane to pass up. Few reasonable Garou would ever make a deal or negotiate with a Bane and fewer still are willing to admit to it. Desperate circumstances can lead to offering a weak, relatively unim­ portant Bane the opportunity to flee with its skin intact

in return for it selling out something bigger and nastier. Actually accepting anything from a Bane, whether kept or not, is farther than most shapeshifters are willing to go.