Death Wolf walked the Pangaean landscape for many years, seeking out the answers at the end of
every creature’s life. Through the Ending Gifts, her Bone Shadow children are able to explore the ending
of lives as she once did, learning as their totem learned. Though the Hirfathra Hissu already have
access to the Death Gifts, the Ending Gifts focus on aspects of death more tied in to Kamduis-Ur’s
personal journey and the answers she worked for. As such, the Ending Gifts are often referred to as Death
Wolf’s Gifts.
Fear of Death (•)
The werewolf can look into the eyes of any living being and determine what type of death he most
fears. The Gift can have some dark uses, revealing to a Bone Shadow just what method of death a subject
fears the most, providing enough information for the character to arrange some grave threats or terrifying
ambushes. Although the Gift was bestowed with a more insightful and cerebral intent in mind, there’s
nothing stopping a cunning werewolf from using Fear of Death to scare his enemies or punish someone by killing her in the way she’s feared most since childhood.
Eyes of the Slain (••)
This Gift is a take on the apocryphal power to stare into the eyes of a corpse and discover how the
victim was murdered. Though the Ending Gifts do not allow a werewolf access to such power, many
Bone Shadows find Eyes of the Slain to be a fascinating opportunity nevertheless.
The Gift only functions on the bodies of physical beings (not ghosts or spirits) that the werewolf
has killed herself. In bringing about the death of the person, the character has bound herself to the path of
the deceased soul’s destiny. By staring into the eyes of the corpse, the werewolf can focus her senses on that bond, determining what it was in life that the slain person most lived for. For some corpses, the images that shine in the eyes might be of their drug addiction, love for their children or an ambition regarding their career. It can be a difficult process to watch, for even the most hard-hearted of killers might have left behind something touching that they truly lived for, no matter how twisted their ideals. It goes almost without saying that some Bone Shadows use this Gift as a means of post-mortem interrogation
Death Masque (•••)
It takes a bold werewolf to call on Death to protect himself, but some Bone Shadows do just that.
This Gift allows the werewolf to wrap himself in the imagery of his own death, effectively deceiving
onlookers into believing that a glancing wound was lethal or that a near-miss became a mortal strike.
Once the foe believes the Bone Shadow dead, he may gain a few precious moments to heal — and to strike from behind.
Bone Hex (••••)
Death Wolf learned to influence Fate in her travels, watching as creatures died under the twists of her
machinations. This Gift allows her children to do the same, by weaving fate into a different pattern and altering the immediate destiny of a chosen subject. By killing in this manner, the werewolf does not avoid
any Harmony loss she would otherwise experience if the death had been administered directly.
Images of Death (•••••)
Death Wolf learned all aspects of endings in her travels, even the ability to perceive a creature’s death
from the moment of its birth. With this Gift, the werewolf can flood a target’s mind with images of his
own death to come. This is a horrifying power, filling the subject’s mind with sensations that he unerringly knows represent the way he will die. Even relatively painless or quick deaths will hurt the target’s mind and eyes as he sees the literal end of his life.
