Howl Code

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Your character has learned a number of special vocalizations and code-sounds intended to imbue a howl with a hidden meaning. These sounds are notable to any werewolf who hears them, but are an artificial construct devoid of emotional emphasis emphasis.

The howl code for “An elder summons you” will only sound urgent if the werewolf howling personally injects a note of urgency into the howl. Using howl code, you may imbed relatively simple concepts into a howl. “Danger from the north,” “a hunt is called,” “the roads are unsafe,” “all is well,” “the Pure are near” and “danger from the Shadow” are all sufficiently simple; “a rogue car-spirit is causing trouble on the highway” is not.

This Merit could theoretically be taken by a non-werewolf character who has been inducted into a social lodge such as the Lodge of the Black Woods. In such a case, the Merit would allow the character to understand the encoded meanings in a fellow lodge member’s howl, but the character would not be able to howl his own coded messages unless he is able to mimic a wolf’s howl accurately (such as a mage shapeshifting into wolf form).

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