Gifts

The Black Spiral Dancers are capable of raising Banes, calling upon them for assistance and gleaning Gifts from their wicked knowledge. The Garou worry far less about the Banes that Spirals summon than the ones the Wyrm’s wolves create. Through Gifts of corruption and rituals of subservience and binding, the Black Spirals have attacked nature spirits, capturing them and torturing them to drive them insane. They’ve also seduced nature spirits into vile liaisons with the Wyrm’s wolves, leading to blasphemous unions that spoil a spirit’s nature.

Through subtle or overt means, such fiends still harness the fundamental forces of nature, but come to emphasize facets of the Wyrm, such as pain, fear, wan­ tonness, hatred, and despair. Long ago, a Black Spiral Dancer perverted a particular forest spirit; driven into despair by his apathy and cruelty, it began to entice the lonely and desperate passing on the nearby interstate

to join it in the depths of the forest, where peace and nothingness awaits.

When a nature spirit transforms into a Bane, it may gain access to Charms that are original to its un­ usual nature, providing the Black Spiral Dancers with a source of newfound might they might not otherwise find if they relied solely upon horrors like G’louogh or the Dark Fungus.