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Many cultures look on the ritual of sharing food as a spiritual bond. The Lodge of the Feast shares this belief. But, where others break bread and share wine, members of the Lodge of the Feast bond with one another over meals of human flesh. Some lodge members hold sumptuous banquets at which the humanity of their main course is elegantly disguised in casseroles, broths, stews and rare cuts. Other lodge members pull hitchhikers off the side of the road and drag them back home for a “family picnic,” served raw. Lodge members are dedicated human-eaters, joined together by a perverse spiritual reverence for their food and the conviction that they’re only following their nature.
The core belief of the lodge is that eating human flesh is not morally wrong in and of itself —unhealthy, yes, but not wrong. Many see themselves as gourmands and aesthetes who are attempting to indulge in their favorite vice as “responsibly” as possible. Others don’t even care about moral judgments, and are in it for the sweet taste of forbidden flesh. Some may even harbor doubts, feeling they’re morally wrong, but unwilling to do anything about it. No matter a Feaster’s beliefs, though, Feasters know not to flaunt their habits — they’re well aware that other werewolves might try to tear them apart for their “heretical” views.
Prerequisites
Rituals ••
Benefits
Ravening Wolf’s blessing allows members of the Lodge of the Feast to spiritually inure themselves at least in part against the spiritual deterioration that comes with eating human or wolf flesh. Lodge members are allowed to spend a Willpower point on the roll to resist degeneration for eating human or wolf flesh. This benefit applies only when attempting to resist degeneration for that particular sin against Harmony; any other sins that would call for a degeneration check must be faced with the usual number of dice. In addition, all lodge members are taught the Communion of the Flesh rite upon initiation, at no experience point cost.
