How a culture treats its dead is always an important part of any society, and though Uratha are drawn from human cultures, the werewolves have their own customs for honoring the fallen. This rite allows a more personal remembrance around the burial site of a packmate, and is popular among the Forsaken of the British Isles for its poignant and solemn use as a grave marker.
Performing the Rite
The packmembers cover the body of their dead friend with stones gathered from their hunting ground, and build a cairn over the werewolf’s remains. If it is completely inappropriate to do so (such as if the packmate has already been buried in a graveyard or cremated and buried elsewhere), then each packmember places a single stone over the gravesite and pushes it into the soil.
Each member then changes to wolf form and howls a single emotion to the night sky, perhaps sorrow, respect, love — whichever the werewolf feels toward the departed packmate at the time. The ritemaster lets these howls fade into the air, then makes the roll as he howls himself, beseeching a spirit of memory to recall forever the cries of the bereaved.
