Many Scroll-Keepers pick up several languages in the course of their studies, but the insular, territorial nature of Uratha life makes a polyglot werewolf a rare thing indeed. However, sometimes lodge members are faced with information in a foreign language that they urgently need to read. This rite is believed to be the result of a bargain struck with specialized language- spirits, a descant within the choir of knowledge-spirits, centuries ago by lodge members. The Rite of Comprehension allows the Uratha to read or hear a foreign language almost as if it were his own, for a limited period of time.
Performing the Rite
The werewolf sits in a calm, empty space, with just himself and the volume (or person) he wishes to understand, a small fire and a collection of writing material. In his own native language, he writes down a secret of his own using his own blood, and then burns the secret in the fire, symbolically offering up the information within to the knowledge-spirits.
