The Lodge of Shadow’s Storm thrives through the keeping of secrets. This ritual is just one of the many ways in which the werewolves revel in their secrecy, and is a mystic rite many other lodges would kill to learn.
The rite allows a werewolf to silence another being, be it Uratha, human or spirit. By performing the ritual, the ritemaster turns the target’s tongue thick in his mouth, rendering him unable to speak of a single subject. Any attempts to speak of the forbidden topic result in breathless silence, which turns into choking, which in turn quickly becomes asphyxiation if the speaker doesn’t give up his attempts.
Performing the Rite
The ritemaster must possess some item belonging to the intended target. This can be anything from an iPod the character owned for a day to a vial of the target’s blood — but it must be something the character has touched and physically ‘owned.’
Once this component is obtained, the ritemaster must choose — very, very carefully — the exact topic the target will be denied speaking of. Specifics matter here; something like “The Uratha” or “The Shadow” is too vague for this ritual to cover. Things such as “The Lodge of Shadow’s Storm,” “The events of the night of September 27th 2005” or “The name of the pack you met last night” are more in the realm of the rite’s coverage. Specific topics, narrow in scope.
The ritemaster writes the forbidden sentence on a piece of fresh paper that has been used for nothing else, and leaves both the paper and the component out in the next rainstorm to be battered (and almost certainly blown away) by the elements.
