Like their Garou relatives, Kinfolk find importance and meaning in the performance of rituals to celebrate who they are, recognize significant milestones in their lives and otherwise mark themselves as separate from non-Kinfolk humans. This Background determines how many rites the character knows at the beginning of the game. The ratings represent levels of rites, so that a character with four dots in Rites may know one Level Four rite, four Level One rites, two Level Two rites or a Level One and a Level Three rite. A character must have a Rituals Knowledge rating of at least the level of the rite she wishes to learn, so our character in the previous example must have four dots in Rituals to have that Level Four rite. These levels refer to Kinfolk rites only; if a Kinfolk who possesses the Rituals Knowledge wishes to learn a Garou rite, she must work that out with her Garou kin. Kinfolk may not learn above a Level Two Garou rite. Higher levels of the Rituals Knowledge allow a Kinfolk to learn only more Level One or Two Garou rites. For example, a Kinfolk with four dots in Rites may, with permission, learn four Level One Garou rites, or two Level Two, or two Level Ones and one Level Two Garou rite. Kinfolk may also learn minor Kinfolk rites at a cost of two minor rites per dot. This Background merely notes how many levels of rites a Kinfolk knows, not whether or not they are Kinfolk or Garou rites. Being able to know a rite and actually learning it are two very different things.

• You know one level of rites.

•• You know two levels of rites.

••• You know three levels of rites.

•••• You know four levels of rites.

••••• You know five levels of rites.