Stalking Gifts

The Rage Forsaken Players Guide p. 125-126
Auspice, Lodges & Tribes
Hunters in Darkness
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Stalking Gifts reflect Hikaon-Ur’s own hunting style, combining the essence of her stealth, skill and predatory mastery within her own hunting ground. They are sometimes referred to as Black Wolf Gifts, though whether this is in honor of the totem or because she was the first to bestow them onto the Forsaken is a matter of debate. Stalking Gifts are treated as tribal Gifts for the Hunters in Darkness, who learn these Gifts from spirits of darkness, night and shadow. Meninna characters can choose to begin play with one of these Gifts as their tribal selections or learn the Gifts through the course of the chronicle as with experience points. A curious aspect to these powers is that they function only at night.

Night Sight (•)

Wolves have an incredibly powerful sense of smell and keen hearing to go with it. Werewolves can take advantage of this aspect of their nature just by shapeshifting to their wolf forms, but for Hunters in Darkness who claim city territories, that’s not always an easy option. Just as Hikaon-Ur hunted in pitch blackness by using her supernatural senses, so too do her children learn to see in utter darkness as if the moon’s bright light illuminated all around them.

Heaven's Guidance (••)

A true hunter is never lost in the wilderness, whether it’s the deep wild, the back alleys of cities or the distorted chaos of the Shadow. This Gift allows the werewolf to pinpoint roughly where she is, giving her a perfect sense of direction and an eidetic recollection of the ways and distances she has traveled since sunset.

The character needs only look up at the nightsky to activate the Gift. Whether the sky is a starfilled expanse or a dark and cloudy shroud, the werewolffeels the Gift’s benefits.

Scent the Supernatural (•••)

The best hunters develop an almost sixth sense for danger and being watched. This Gift allows a Hunter in Darkness to detect the scent of any unnatural or supernatural presence in the area, and determine the presence’s type. Supernatural presences include manifested spirits, Ridden, Hosts, vampires, mages, werewolves, ghosts and any Gifts or rites being performed nearby. Scent the supernatural only reveals presences of supernatural entities on the same side of the Gauntlet as the character using the Gift.

Shadow Strike (••••)

Night is the time when the Hunters in Darkness are in their element. This Gift allows the werewolf to literally blend in with the darkness around her as she hunts, with shadows and the night itself wrapping around her as she stalks her prey.

Characters using this Gift are able to melt into a shadow or other patch of natural darkness and emerge from another elsewhere to make the killing strike. The only consideration is that the shadow where the character emerges from must be of a size to allow the werewolf to “fit” as if emerging from a portal or hole.

Shadow Pack (•••••)

Hikaon-Ur was a lone wolf, and though her children run in packs with their brethren, there will be times in a werewolf’s life when she finds herself alone in the darkness, hunting alone as her totem hunted. This Gift is an echo of the great powers Black Wolf used in the depths of the Pangaean wilderness, summoning a pack of dark and shadowy wolves to assist in bringing down prey. The Shadow Pack appear as flickering wolf-shapes composed of pure darkness, flashing in and out of sight as they move. These shadow-wolves are Hikaon’s own servants and allies, born before the world split. They hunt in eerie silence, moving in perfect unison with the summoner, returning to Hikaon’s dark wilderness realm in the Shadow once their hunt is completed.

To call the shadow-wolves, the character must raise her head and howl silently to the night sky as she spends the Essence, going through the motions of howling but making no sound. Upon manifestation (either in the physical world or the Shadow) the shadow-wolves use the character’s Attribute and Ability scores, and possess the same Health scores as the werewolf in Urhan form.