The philosophies of the Lodge of Wrath are simple enough to understand. Territory is sacrosanct, and extends beyond the physical land that a pack claims. Their possessions, their bodies and even each other all fall under the heading of “territory,” and, thus, anyone who violates the sanctity of a lodge member or one of her packmates faces a terrible and determined foe.
Members of the lodge call themselves Serthaha, or “those who punish.” To enter the territory of the Serthaha is to welcome death. The members don’t go out looking for trouble, though those who claim territory near urban centers do try to make those territories proof against trespassers. When someone enters the hunting ground of a lodge member, though, the Uratha is honor-bound to exact revenge. Shrike-Bloody-Beak doesn’t require the werewolves to kill all trespassers, especially if doing so would threaten to expose the Uratha, but the spirit does insist that anyone who wrongs the lodge, as a whole or in the person of a single member, must suffer. Sometimes this involves sneaking into the wrongdoer’s house and marking her bedroom door with claw marks, killing her pet, stalking her for a week or some other form of intimidation. If the violation was deliberate or damaging, more brutal methods might be necessary. Serthaha have been known to keep “pain larders,” wherein they leave offenders writhing on hooks for hours before they are finally allowed to die.
Prerequisites
Purity ••, Honor ••, Brawl or Weaponry ••, Survival ••.
Benefits
Members of the Lodge of Wrath may learn Retribution Gifts as though they were tribal Gifts.
