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{{Werewolf/Gift
|Name=Scourging Gifts
|Source=The Pure
|Pages=p. 119
|Affinity=Ivory Claws
}}
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The Scourging list is considered an affinity Gift list
for the Ivory Claws. It represents their relationship to the
Purity Renown and the benediction of Silver Wolf. The
core idea of purity is that un-alike things should not mix.
Silver Wolf and his servants demand adherence to that
principle. These Gifts are most commonly taught by eaglespirits.

== Gift List ==
=== • Sense the Impure ===
Silver Wolf insists on the highest standards of pure
blood for his subjects. This Gift allows the Ivory Claws to
determine the purity of a subject’s blood — or a substance
— merely by scent.
If the target is a liquid, gas or a living creature, the
werewolf must be within a few feet of the target of the Gift
in order to activate it. If the target is a solid, the Uratha
must touch it to activate this Gift.
Cost: None
Dice Pool: Wits + Animal Ken + Wisdom
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The Ivory Claw believes the opposite of the truth — either that a target with pure blood
or pure substance is impure, or the other way around.
Failure: The Ivory Claw does not learn anything
about the target.
Success: The Ivory Claw learns whether the target
is a werewolf; the Gift user can also discern whether the
target has any Uratha ancestors within the past three
generations or has the Wolf-Blooded Merit. If the target is
inanimate, the Gift user gets an idea of the target’s level
of Purity in general terms. The Gift does notpermit the
Ivory Claw to detect pre-Change werewolves; however, it
does give the user an idea of even wolf-blooded humans’
ancestry, as above.
Dramatic Success: Per success; additionally, if the
target is a werewolf or has the Wolf-Blooded Merit, the
Uratha can tell whether the target is a Pure werewolf or
one of the Forsaken, and whether the target’s ancestors
were Pure or Forsaken.

=== •• Relentless Focus ===
Purity begins in the soul. The Uratha using this
Gift gains intense focus on whatever actions are most
important to him, and only the greatest of temptations or
distractions can gain his attention. This Gift can be used
only once per day.
Cost: 1 Willpower
Dice Pool:Resolve + Empathy + Honor
Action:Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure:Something is too distracting to
ignore. The Uratha loses an additional point of Willpower.
Failure:The Uratha cannot gain the desired level of
focus.
Success:For every two successes achieved on the roll,
the Uratha regains a point of Willpower (up to his normal
maximum).
Dramatic Success:Per success, and the Uratha also
gets one bonus die to all Resolve, Composure or Stamina
rolls for the remainder of the scene.

=== ••• Purify ===
This Gift separates different substances out from a
small, mostly pure mixture. The mixture cannot be living
or recently dead material, but can be solid, liquid or gas.
The Gift can affect no more than one liter of liquid or
solid, or a small room’s worth of gas. This Gift can ensure
that there is no poison in a drink, change 14kt gold into
24kt gold or drive dangerous gases from a room. Purify
does not split a mixture into all of its components separately. Instead, whatever substance comprises the majority
of a mixture is left alone, and anything that isn’t that
substance is extracted in a single, visible mass.
Although the Gift is magical in nature, Purify obeys
the laws of chemistry: Purify will not break a molecular
compound apart, but only perform a physical change. For
example, Purify cannot break alcohol down into carbon,
hydrogen and oxygen — but the Gift could pull water and
other substances out of an alcoholic drink, leaving behind
100% pure alcohol.
At the character’s discretion, the impurities in the
substance may be pushed a few inches away from the
newly pure substance — enough to leave a clean, full container of the pure material and a puddle of other material
outside of that container.
Purify renders poisoned or contaminated food or
drink safe to eat. Purified explosives probably won’t work.
Purified gems shatter; purified precious metals become
more valuable per ounce. This Gift can be used on fetishes
— however, the fetish gains a resistance roll equal to its
spirit’s Resistance Trait.
Cost:1 Essence
Dice Pool:Intelligence + Science + Purity
Action:Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The character cannot purify the
substance with this Gift until 24 hours have passed.
Failure:The Gift fails to work
Success:The substance is purified, as described
above.
Exceptional Success:The substance is purified, as
described, and the character does not lose the Essence you
would ordinarily spend to activate this Gift.

=== •••• Expel ===
This Gift pushes all parasitic or symbiotic life forms
out of a living creature (including animals, humans and
Uratha). Expel cleans infected wounds perfectly, heals
bacterial disease completely and expels any parasites. Microorganisms are destroyed invisibly; any visible parasite
is killed and forcibly expelled through the nearest suitable
opening.
Unfortunately, this Gift does not discriminate
between beneficial symbiote and parasite. Most creatures’
digestive tracts contain extensive quantities of microorganisms to help them digest food. Expel eliminates those
as well. This can lead to a few days of intestinal distress
for the subject of the Gift, until he has eaten enough local
food to re-establish the balance of his digestive systems
This distress causes a one-die penalty on Composure rolls
for the next three days.
Expel does not work on magical diseases, viruses or
prion-based diseases. It cannot expel a spirit from a host
body, though the Gift can force out a supernatural parasite with a material form.
Cost:1 Willpower
Dice Pool:Intelligence + Medicine + Cunning
Action:Extended (each roll represents one turn
spent in a trance over the subject; the number of successes
needed is the same as the Stamina + Resolve roll difficulty
on p. 176 of The World of Darkness).
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure:The infection is worse than previously thought; Expel will not work on it, and the target’s
Stamina + Resistance roll requires five more successes
than previously thought.
Failure:No successes are gained for this turn. If the
character fails three successive rolls, the character cannot
use Expel again on this target until the next day.
Success:Successes are accumulated. If enough
successes are gained, the infection, disease or parasite is
eliminated. This Gift does not heal damage already done
by that influence.
Exceptional Success:A greater number of successes
are accumulated. If five extra successes over the target are
achieved on that final roll, the target’s immune system is
supercharged for the next three days, providing an additional two dice to any Stamina + Resistance rolls to avoid
disease.

=== ••••• Cast Out ===
Purity of spirit is as important to Silver Wolf as
purity of body. Cast Out drives a possessing spirit from its
subject. While many Uratha know the rite Banish Spirit,
Cast Out works much more quickly. However, Cast Out
is also incredibly painful — for the Uratha who uses it,
the spirit the Uratha targets with the Gift and the person
possessed by the spirit. The use of Cast Out is a sure way
for an Ivory Claw to make a long-term enemy out of the
spirit she targets.
To use Cast Out, the Uratha must cut her hand and
place (smear, flick or fling) her blood on the possessed
person or thing. The wound causes great pain and heals
slowly (it is an aggravated wound). After being expelled,
the spirit suffers a one-die penalty from pain.
Cast Out works on possessed animals or things as well
as humans.
Cost:1 Essence + 1 point of aggravated damage
Dice Pool:Resolve + Occult + Glory versus the
spirit’s Resistance
Action:Contested
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure:The spirit is not driven from its
host and takes no damage. The host body suffers one
point of aggravated damage.
Failure:The spirit is not driven from its host and
takes no damage.
Success:The spirit is driven from its host and takes
one point of Corpus damage; the spirit suffers a one-die
penalty due to pain for a day and a night afterwards.
Dramatic Success:Per success, but the wound that
the Uratha suffers is only a lethal wound point rather than
aggravated.

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