Penumbra
The closest realm of the spiritual world is simply a reflection of the physical world. All there is on Earth has a spiritual reflection in the Penumbra, the 'shadow of the Earth. When the puppies stories Umbria, usually refer to this realm. It 's the easiest to understand. For the werewolves are not particularly inclined to the spiritual, about this realm is all they bisogno.La Penumbra resembles our world, but from another point of view: that of the Garou. E 'humanity to define what happens on Earth, but in the presence of Penumbra Gaia you can guess very easily. Gaia is everywhere, the realm is full of life and living things. A public park may look lush in our world, but the trees and plants in the Umbria vibrate with energy. The smell of car exhaust dissolves, replaced by a fresh breeze - the smog gives way to fresh air. The smells and the feelings that are damped by the city get new life. The moon is always clearly visible. By day, the sky is normally a brilliant blue, in a way that only children can understand, and the sun is not rarely visible, but its light permeates the atmosphere of Penumbra. (A vampire who somehow be introduced into the Penumbra will experience problems during the day, as the sunlight is never straightforward but practically everywhere.) During the night, all stars are visible despite the brilliance of the moon, and they are Even some who nessun'uomo has ever seen. The force of the Wyld ovunque.Sfortunatamente is clear, the forces of the Wyrm and Weaver are. Rare are the cities whose reflected in Penumbra are still healthy. When the spiritual health of a site decreases, the health of its counterpart in the Penumbra decreases. In the physical world, the influence of the Wyrm can be almost invisible, but its tentacles are often more obvious in Umbria. Suppose that a chemical plant is producing filth of the Wyrm, which is spread through the city. The machinery responsible may appear bright and well maintained, but in Umbria, its resonance is more corrupt than evident. His tubes could be encrusted growths unrecognizable, the flashing lights on his control panel could wink like the eyes of a predator. A tank of chemicals from contaminated Wyrm would glow with a sickly color that later they would know not to name. The cranes that load them on trucks could cast doubt on long and winding tentacoli.Al world there are many areas wounded in these ways, in which the Wyrm and Weaver have widely infested creation. In the physical world, the telltale signs of such corruption are difficult to grasp, but they are still present. Pollution, poverty, exploitation and suffering are all signs of the corruption of the Wyrm, all spiritual problems that cast a shroud. Conformity, oppression almost ridiculous, and technology beyond all limits, are the main indicators of the influence of Weaver. I can fight these opponents werewolves by addressing the problems in the human world. Because of their obligations to humanity, most Garou feels he can not do anything less. A campaign for the disposal of waste in the physical world could cure the symptoms of spiritual corruption, but not always cure the ailment. Some Sometimes a school will have to travel in the spiritual world to deal with such horrors direttamente.Gli rights in the material world is distracted or misled, but the Garou Umbria can see the forces of the Triad to work. A puppy that passes through the glove in the city for the first time can see Weaver everywhere. The traffic lights can fade over long web lucciante. Nestled in a pedestrian traffic light, a little spirit of Weaver might sing his mantra pedestrian passers-by, again and again. Most of the human is not even visible, only the most "enlightened" or "important" - those who have a profound effect on people around them, such as dedicated teachers - are represented a faint luminescence, an outline barely visible. The shape shifter whose form is spiritual part of their flesh, like shadows thrown in the Penumbra vague and indeterminate. Around them, the forms of buildings, sidewalks and busy streets could take the form of walls made of thick cobwebs ... or, if the forces at work are more strange, other things less comprensibili.Sebbene the shape-shifting may be able to discern the spiritual context of a place by examining the spiritual counterpart, is not so easy when it comes to living beings. Most animals, including humans, simply do not live long enough to cast doubt on the individual Penumbra - hence, the reflection a city can be eerily deserted, inhabited by spirits only occasionally by the human form. The cat-spirit who lives in an alley of Penumbra is not a reflection of any cat in particular - is simply the embodiment of the spiritual concept of "cat" in the alley where it seemed an appropriate area. However, the main exception is the spirit of a tree, with their long lives and the overall importance to the surrounding area, the trees are often able to achieve a degree of "relevance" spiritual enough to cast a shadow on the Penumbra. It 'pretty rare that a human has a reflection in the Penumbra. Those are people who have the great spiritual enlightenment, or those who have been touched by the spirit world. A powerful spiritual leader that believes deeply in the case which supports may appear in the Penumbra, the same is true for a child with the gift of being able to see spirits for what they are. In particular, the Mage cast their reflection in the Penumbra always, thanks to their remarkable strength of will, their spiritual awareness and the general sense of self-esteem. In any case, the reflection of a human being is influenced by what he thinks of himself, but also the nature of its spiritual links, a mage who believes utterly corrupt pure and sacred reflection may throw a light that shines with an aura , but that seems blurred edges in a strange way, almost malevolo.Come already said, the shape-shifting cast only partial reflections, which allow a few clues about their true nature - Penumbra is not acting very well as "Smell the true shape" of the poor. Even vampires and other undead do not cast any reflection in the Penumbra, and they are linked Dark Umbria. It seems there are some exceptions involving the undead with a phenomenal personality, which have a heavy impact on those around them: a vampire and demented serial killer could be a cold spot that attracts small Flagella Gaffling darkness, just like a deadly sociopath. Similarly, an undead, which is close to transcend his morbid state and achieve a more transcendent, could shine in the Penumbra but very coldly. In most cases, the undead have completely lost their spark of life, and have little effect on the Penumbra.
The closest realm of the spiritual world is simply a reflection of the physical world. All there is on Earth has a spiritual reflection in the Penumbra, the 'shadow of the Earth. When the puppies stories Umbria, usually refer to this realm. It 's the easiest to understand. For the werewolves are not particularly inclined to the spiritual, about this realm is all they bisogno.La Penumbra resembles our world, but from another point of view: that of the Garou. E 'humanity to define what happens on Earth, but in the presence of Penumbra Gaia you can guess very easily. Gaia is everywhere, the realm is full of life and living things. A public park may look lush in our world, but the trees and plants in the Umbria vibrate with energy. The smell of car exhaust dissolves, replaced by a fresh breeze - the smog gives way to fresh air. The smells and the feelings that are damped by the city get new life. The moon is always clearly visible. By day, the sky is normally a brilliant blue, in a way that only children can understand, and the sun is not rarely visible, but its light permeates the atmosphere of Penumbra. (A vampire who somehow be introduced into the Penumbra will experience problems during the day, as the sunlight is never straightforward but practically everywhere.) During the night, all stars are visible despite the brilliance of the moon, and they are Even some who nessun'uomo has ever seen. The force of the Wyld ovunque.Sfortunatamente is clear, the forces of the Wyrm and Weaver are. Rare are the cities whose reflected in Penumbra are still healthy. When the spiritual health of a site decreases, the health of its counterpart in the Penumbra decreases. In the physical world, the influence of the Wyrm can be almost invisible, but its tentacles are often more obvious in Umbria. Suppose that a chemical plant is producing filth of the Wyrm, which is spread through the city. The machinery responsible may appear bright and well maintained, but in Umbria, its resonance is more corrupt than evident. His tubes could be encrusted growths unrecognizable, the flashing lights on his control panel could wink like the eyes of a predator. A tank of chemicals from contaminated Wyrm would glow with a sickly color that later they would know not to name. The cranes that load them on trucks could cast doubt on long and winding tentacoli.Al world there are many areas wounded in these ways, in which the Wyrm and Weaver have widely infested creation. In the physical world, the telltale signs of such corruption are difficult to grasp, but they are still present. Pollution, poverty, exploitation and suffering are all signs of the corruption of the Wyrm, all spiritual problems that cast a shroud. Conformity, oppression almost ridiculous, and technology beyond all limits, are the main indicators of the influence of Weaver. I can fight these opponents werewolves by addressing the problems in the human world. Because of their obligations to humanity, most Garou feels he can not do anything less. A campaign for the disposal of waste in the physical world could cure the symptoms of spiritual corruption, but not always cure the ailment. Some Sometimes a school will have to travel in the spiritual world to deal with such horrors direttamente.Gli rights in the material world is distracted or misled, but the Garou Umbria can see the forces of the Triad to work. A puppy that passes through the glove in the city for the first time can see Weaver everywhere. The traffic lights can fade over long web lucciante. Nestled in a pedestrian traffic light, a little spirit of Weaver might sing his mantra pedestrian passers-by, again and again. Most of the human is not even visible, only the most "enlightened" or "important" - those who have a profound effect on people around them, such as dedicated teachers - are represented a faint luminescence, an outline barely visible. The shape shifter whose form is spiritual part of their flesh, like shadows thrown in the Penumbra vague and indeterminate. Around them, the forms of buildings, sidewalks and busy streets could take the form of walls made of thick cobwebs ... or, if the forces at work are more strange, other things less comprensibili.Sebbene the shape-shifting may be able to discern the spiritual context of a place by examining the spiritual counterpart, is not so easy when it comes to living beings. Most animals, including humans, simply do not live long enough to cast doubt on the individual Penumbra - hence, the reflection a city can be eerily deserted, inhabited by spirits only occasionally by the human form. The cat-spirit who lives in an alley of Penumbra is not a reflection of any cat in particular - is simply the embodiment of the spiritual concept of "cat" in the alley where it seemed an appropriate area. However, the main exception is the spirit of a tree, with their long lives and the overall importance to the surrounding area, the trees are often able to achieve a degree of "relevance" spiritual enough to cast a shadow on the Penumbra. It 'pretty rare that a human has a reflection in the Penumbra. Those are people who have the great spiritual enlightenment, or those who have been touched by the spirit world. A powerful spiritual leader that believes deeply in the case which supports may appear in the Penumbra, the same is true for a child with the gift of being able to see spirits for what they are. In particular, the Mage cast their reflection in the Penumbra always, thanks to their remarkable strength of will, their spiritual awareness and the general sense of self-esteem. In any case, the reflection of a human being is influenced by what he thinks of himself, but also the nature of its spiritual links, a mage who believes utterly corrupt pure and sacred reflection may throw a light that shines with an aura , but that seems blurred edges in a strange way, almost malevolo.Come already said, the shape-shifting cast only partial reflections, which allow a few clues about their true nature - Penumbra is not acting very well as "Smell the true shape" of the poor. Even vampires and other undead do not cast any reflection in the Penumbra, and they are linked Dark Umbria. It seems there are some exceptions involving the undead with a phenomenal personality, which have a heavy impact on those around them: a vampire and demented serial killer could be a cold spot that attracts small Flagella Gaffling darkness, just like a deadly sociopath. Similarly, an undead, which is close to transcend his morbid state and achieve a more transcendent, could shine in the Penumbra but very coldly. In most cases, the undead have completely lost their spark of life, and have little effect on the Penumbra.
Parallels and Analogies
time and space pass in the Penumbra as happens in the physical world. If you've spent an hour watching the traffic in the Penumbra of Central Park before returning to the physical world, will be spent exactly one hour. If you go in front of the Bethesda Fountain in Umbria and walk three miles to the Strawberry Field garden, when you come back you'll find in the material world at the Strawberry Field Garden, three miles away. Deeper in Umbria these laws may not apply. But so close to Earth, the shadow cast by the planet, the distances are quite costanti.I Garou idealists believe that the Penumbra show the world as it appears in the vision of Gaia, the world as it should be. It 'true that the appearance of the physical world can be deceiving on the spiritual significance of something. In Penumbra, things appear according to their "importance" rather than according to their shape. This aspect of Penumbra is also revealed in the forms of spiritual mutaforma.Il body of a real shape-shifter is composed equally of flesh and spirit, and when a wolf enters the physical world, his appearance becomes almost completely in the flesh, and when it enters Umbria is true. The spiritual form of a Garou, to tell the truth is his body - just the fact of a different substance. However, sometimes materialize aesthetic alterations. For example, a Silver Fang is beautiful in both body and soul could shine with a radiance almost glowing, its nobility even more evident. The mantle of a Red Claw could shine like fire, his eyes almost fired by his passion. A Galliard of the Fianna would wear the same clothes with which it entered in Umbria, but its sacred tattoos may be more intense and vivid, and the way he put himself could remember the heroes of legend, instead of a boy of twenty-first century. A Silent Strider who suffers the loss of his love may appear darker and colder, as if a shadow had fallen on him. These variations are always smaller, as mentioned earlier, the spiritual body of a werewolf is the same physical body, not an idealized form. But being creatures of spirit, the shapeshifting resonate more clearly when they are in the spiritual world - are, in some way, to casa.Gli same principles of "spiritual image" apply to the physical landscape. An old church that was attended by the faithful for two hundred years is a spiritual stronghold. A sacred oak tree where the witch doctors have conducted ceremonies for decades is undoubtedly powerful. The hot dog cart that was parked in the same place every day for an entire week, do not even let the air un'odore Penumbra. Using the same analogy, when a megacorporations pours millions of dollars in an office building there and moved hundreds of employees, probably you will know. The geometric shapes from the contours of the building may have Platonic perfection, while the spirits of the Weaver that run the phone lines, whistling in the cables of computers, which are trapped in the fluorescent lights, humming, whispering cryptic canitcchiano and incunabula to the world around them . The consequences of physical things in Penumbra are made of matter and spirit, some call this substance 'ephemeral'. The buildings do not have much spiritual significance may not have solid reflections of the facts fleeting, but this does not mean that a werewolf could walk through walls at will. To go through a wall that is only partially solid (eg a building with some spiritual significance, but not much), the Storyteller may require a shot of Gnosis to allow the werewolf to pass unharmed. In addition to other areas of technology concentration attract the spirits of Weaver - many office buildings are full of Umbria as large sheets of canvas without a real structure to them. However, we can pave the way for splitting, breaking and tearing the short-lived just like you can do in the physical world. In the realm of the spirit, all things are possible; just that some require more time and effort of altre.Anche environmental hazards are variable. For example, a werewolf that passes through the glove while on an airplane might well be in trouble if the plane does not have a counterpart ephemeral. (I know that werewolves have to travel by air would be better for the air to celebrate the Rite of Awakening the Spirits in advance if you can do so without getting caught.) And 'Can a person drown in the water of Penumbra, or Penumbra choke in deep space - however, the werewolves and the spirits are allowed to do a roll Gnosis, difficulty 6, to accommodate the sitazione for the duration of a scene. The fires of short-lived, however, cause damage, but the Penumbra a hot desert is still livable. It is for the Narrator, from time to time, decide which risks you can adapt, and which remain pericolosi.Col time, the actions taken against the things in the material world has an effect on their reflection in the spiritual world, and vice versa. If a venerable church was demolished to make way for a covered parking, its presence could still be perceived in the Penumbra, at least until the Weaver takes over to complete the new building. If a school opens the way for breaking the same ephemeral port again and again, the physical port will begin to slowly degrade. The pack could rip the canvas, crush the spirits of children who reside in Weaver lock, or simply fold the ephemeral with the Gift Open Seal. In the physical world, the hinges of the door may begin to creak, or could begin to close badly, or the lock mechanism could begin to take male.Una selective destruction applied to the plague-stricken areas of Umbria may help their corresponding physical locations in heal. Mash a few hundred blacks and toxic worms that infest the spiritual reflection of a fast food type O'Tolley, and contamination of the Wyrm, which is found in potato chips may come off. Yet, these actions are always unpredictable. The old depressed that oversees the fryer could resign on the same day or the next one could be the food less disgusting. Obviously cut to zero all the trees of a forest will not promote the well-being contaminated in any way. The Garou may see things the same way as ephemeral materials, but the actions they may rely on very different results. Destroy the evil in Umbria is not enough: the Garou live in both worlds, and must fight for both fermarlo.I reflexes of animals, humans and other sentient creatures can not be destroyed in this way. If a werewolf claw a shadow of a person in the Penumbra, this person felt a shiver, the proverbial sensation of someone walking on his grave - but there will be no adverse effects. The spiritual reflection a person is not his anima.Questi principles are absolute? Absolutely not. The Penumbra is not an accurate reflection of the Earth. Like everything about the spirit and magic, is sometimes capricious and unpredictable. Some theurgists explain that every physical object has a spiritual force behind him. If the spirits are minimally conscious, are unpredictable, with a limited free will. This frustrates homid endless, but it also creates great stories for Galliard (and Storytellers). Again, the farther from Earth, the less the land laws apply.
Eternal Mystery
Garou When they see the spiritual reflections, they interpret what they find in terms of what we understand. If these similarities were always expressed in exactly the same way, the Umbra would be easier to understand. Unfortunately not. Every puppy knows that the spirits are in the shape of the Weaver spider, for example, but it is said that these spirits should always have the appearance of the same species of spiders. Strange insect larvae could weave the sticky dirt. Vibrating tentacled blob could float above the energy matrices. Symbolism in Umbria can change, in areas where the Wyld is strong, it can also change very velocemente.Secondo the same analogy, the first time that a Garou of visiting a realm controlled by Weaver, giant spiders may rushing towards them, trying to calcify in their paintings. The next time you run through a region controlled by Weaver, humanoid in riot gear surrounded and groped could be dropped with clouds of poison gas. The third time, faceless men in suits groped could be wrapped with tape red. In each case, were attacked by the same kind of spirit of the Weaver (with the same game mechanics), but their shape is different. Even in the kingdoms ruled by stagnant, things can change depending on the region. In short, the Garou should be careful (and Storytellers should take note): The umbra is never predictable.
Awakening I argue that
theurgists each object in the material world has a spiritual element in it, after all, can see the evidence for it every time they enter Umbria. It 's a simple expansion of the animistic belief that cultivated so carefully. Some items are more spiritually "dead" than others. A transient object of marginal importance or significance of a very pale reflection of Umbria, or even ha.Alcuni mystics are not able to awaken a spirit that resides in an object, in particular with a special ceremony. Nobody would pay attention to a PC 386 at the bottom of an abandoned warehouse and a Theurgist of Glass Walkers who celebrated the Rite of Awakening of Spirits can shake the spirit resides there. In his spiritual reflection, a brood of spiders sleepy-spirit begin to stretch out, picking up loose pieces of code and doing a quick scan of the data files. A playground may have been abandoned for many years, but if a Theurgist of Rosica Bone celebrates the same rite, it could facilitate its task of cleansing the filth around, perhaps making it again a vital part of quartiere.Gli humans can do the same thing in everyday life, but with a lower caliber, even if they are not conscious. When a person is an object with care and attention, the spirit within it is fed. Over time, the object gains meaning, and its reflection ephemeral gains strength. A car ten years old that remains to rust in an empty parking lot could be spiritually dead, or might even be haunted by the spirits of the Wyrm. If a mechanic retrieves it and tries in every way to get up again as an object of antiquity, the spirit inside of awakening. Umbria may even appear just as it was ten years ago. A nursery full of plush toys is suffused with the glow in Umbria, a good stereo view of the bright pulses of energy Weaver.Ovunque the light goes out, darkness is spreading. Forgotten places or polluted take a "dark reflection." There are places in the physical world where horrific crimes were committed, where innocent people have been abused and victimized. The spiritual world also reflects this. A slaughterhouse may be stained red, and the echo of the bleating of animals still can be felt. If people of a district murmur prayers as they pass in front of the abandoned "house of the murders," granting power to the spiritual contamination that haunts. A simple rite might not be enough to erase an atrocity of this magnitude, much greater efforts are necessari.Gli Wyrm spirits are attracted by places where sin and vices are strong. Such filth Umbria are often blurred by darkness and shadows. Humans in the material world can groped to hide some of these places, but they are clearly visible in Umbria. The slight outline of a human could take the veins of black corruption if it is a fertile ground for contamination of the Wyrm. The spirits of the besieged people of that kind, whispering and waving until the time seems propitious for the actual possession propria.Va said that just as there are light and darkness, there are always shades of gray. In the modern world, large areas of the city are colored pesaggio moral ambiguity.
spiritual perception
Just like the Garou may pass from one world to another (through the glove), some spirits can pass from the realm Penumbra Earth, and back again. Consuming their enrgia may materialize in the physical world. More or less they can see where things are in the material world, watching their reflections. The spirits are attracted by the light of the Wyld, Wyrm those of darkness. Some spirits are trying to steal instead of creatures who have watched from Umbria. These ephemera are hidden in the physical world, but they are often clearly visible in the spirit world. A madman may have a secret that the spirits of the Wyrm strip on the back that whispers his madness, and only in Umbria this truth will be hidden rivelata.Senza the use of special gifts, or blessings of fetishes, a Garou can not give Umbria check directly from the physical world. Even when they are able to enter into such a trance, their vision of the spiritual world is very limited. The werewolves are much easier to see Penumbra peek from the material world, the spirits can do the same thing (this is the way many Flagella are their victims). Groped such an undertaking requires focus and spiritual strength, because it requires the ability to interpret the meaning of spiritual reflections. (Because of this, if a character is 'peering,' the number of dice in the shooting of perception can not be greater than its Gnosis.) Having peeked through the terrestrial realm Glove, actually affect the physical world requires that the Garou leave the Umbra again. Continuously through the glove might attract the attention of the Weaver. (In game terms, if the players continue to pass through the glove in the same area repeatedly, the difficulty of the shot to increase by 1 after each attempt.)
Other Penumbrae
The Garou of all the tribes through the glove and reach the Penumbra regularly, but the Galliard and theurgists some tribes tell stories about other Penumbrae. Those who feel the need to be precise in an attempt to categorize all of creation, refer to the Penumbra described above with the term "Penumbra Nigh." However, there are other altre.Queste Penumbrae are rarely visited, and it is almost impossible for a case to reach the Garou. This is because they are not at all related to Umbria Close - the source of the powers of shapeshifting. It is said that the physical world is casting a shadow that Umbria Umbria Deep Dark - and the resulting Penumbrae are legends for Garou. The Silent Striders hint at a "land of the dead," a shadowy realm inhabited by ghosts instead of spirits, which can be accessed only through the celebration of a ritual, the Scrutastelle assume the existence of an "astral Penumbra," and defined as cousin of suburbia. Even the Glass Walkers wonder if there might be a Penumbra linked to virtual reality and cyberspace, although it is difficult to imagine such a thing existed in any form before the twentieth century. Luckily for the puppy average, these theories are not very common for most of the Garou, the Penumbra Penumbra is Nigh, the only one they need conoscere.Le other "real" Penumbrae are far from common experience - the Penumbra Moon and the other planets of the solar system. E 'theoretically possible, at least according to some theurgy, a werewolf who find their way through the spiritual world that would lead to the Penumbra of Mars or Venus - or even further. The trip would not necessarily be lethal, but it certainly would be difficult. However, no life that enriches the other planets and their spiritual shadows, the spirits who are there would be little the allies. How could one persuade spirit of the need to protect the forests and oceans, where it had never even seen a bud or a puddle? Even the vacuum of space casts a shadow in the Penumbra, although the glove is awfully thin between the planets and stars. Ragabash Some tell stories of human mystics who believe in the absence of an "outer space," that the spacecraft and artificial satellites are somehow magical objects that travel in the spirit world. ("And then we call primitive ...") However, mystics and occultists are familiar with the meanings associated with such celestial bodies. Crude definitions can never define their deeper meanings and spiritual. A Theurgist could say that Mars is a planet the war, "but in fact, Mars is ruled by her complexion Planetarium - which perhaps is even topped with a Celestine. A mystic might claim that Mars influences what happens on Earth, but the spirit of the planet may very well have an opinion on merit. When you are on the banks of the Ethereal Realm, or meditate on the havens at a Anchorhead, the vibrations of these worlds are dimly discernible, echoing the form of the enigmatic "Music of the Spheres." Member Scrustastelle can spend the whole time life to study this strange and enlightening musica.Alcuni heroes Garou dare to cross the airwaves to reach those realms. each incarnation has its own unique wisdom to be granted, along with his gifts and his blessing. Just like the Garou can form a herd based on a totem of Gaia, the largest of the heroes Garou come from a herd that has a planetarium as totem embodies. Obviously this requires that they make a visionquest through the Umbra to find their totem spirit. In recent years, whole herds of senior citizens (the highest ranking Garou) have taken this rim is among the most glorious, so they can find new hope for their dying world.
Glove
There is a barrier placed between the Earth and the Penumbra, a construct that is said to have been erected by Weaver in order to maintain the physical world. The Garou must pass to enter the Gauntlet in Umbria. I viewed describe the act of crossing the glove like a caress of silk as a heavy offset (sometimes impossibly hard) soft velvet curtain - so many poetic Galliard refer to Umbria with the name of Velvet Shadow. Others describe the feeling tearing as cobwebs, as offset lace to reveal a bright candle, or how to feel the breath of the weakest of sussurri.Il glove is a creation of Weaver, and as such, the barrier is thicker than the order is everywhere stronger. In the heart of the largest cities, or hidden in the high-security areas of hi-tech laboratories, the Garou are difficult to escape in the Penumbra. There, the laws of man reigns supreme. In same spirit, places where nature is stronger, usually deep in the wilderness, the glove is weaker. Meditating in the forest, it is easier to imagine the world as where to be before human history began. There are some sacred places in which the repeated use of magic rites and kept the glove particularly weak. The Caerna are places of power for the Garou, where the force of the spiritual world can be called and focused, and so are the favorite places to cross the glove puppies, or other inexperienced Cliath Umbria. The glove is consequently in a low Caerna, and reduced risk. (The fact that Garou elders are nearby, in so you can save the young flocks in the event of failure, is an additional advantage.) Other sites frequented by different supernatural creatures hidden - for example, the stone circle of a band of modern Druids, or the top of a hill on which says you possess the fairy creatures - they have similar opportunities. But these places are almost always defended in some way, for the puppies, call the biggest dangers of such places to cross the glove mondane.Proprio areas as there are other Penumbrae, there are other gloves, but not many Garou if they care about. The realm of the dead and other such places can not be attained without the use of rare and secret rituals, so most of the werewolves have heard at most of these gloves "alternative." For most of the time when the wolves are for gloves, the gloves are talking about dividing the land and Near Penumbra.
Pass the gloves and come Trapped
The journey to the spirit world should not be taken lightly. Only fools try to do the puppies before their rite of passage. Many are too weak spiritually to homid groped without taking a big risk. Some believe addirittira to know the "shortcuts" to the spirit world, I think I've already experienced during trance, after ingenstione of drugs, or during a massive poisoning. (These errors have a source, as see below). Garou Puppies learn very simple methods. Meditation observing a reflective surface is the most diretto.I theurgists Fianna argue that because of the spiritual world is a "reflection" of the physical world, a mirror or a crystal clear lake has a perfect affinity required by such magic. Even Bones Rosica share this belief, but often meditate on pools of very different substances. The reflective surface is actually a kind of crutch. Mirrors are commonly used as a focus, but they are not the only ones. Garou enlightened mystics or find it easier to make the trip by using other means. The Children of Gaia may prefer previously mentioned altered states. One could Scrutastelle smooth stones in a Zen garden or deep breathing while performing a kata of tai chi. People are less harmonized difficult meditazione.Molti werewolves bring their special talismans to help them overcome the glove, depending on different types of reflective objects. A Uktena could see a sparkling gem that was donated by a tribal shaman. Rosica A Bones could have with him a flask for liquor, made of metal and polished mirror. A Glass Walker could simply watch with joy the display of his mobile phone. Just as there are few absolutes about the world of spirits, so that no two Garou must necessarily relate to it the same way. (In game terms, one of these objects gives a -1 to the difficulty of the shot to pass the glove, just as would a mirror. At the discretion of the Narrator, other techniques such as the meditative Zen Garden or the Scrustastelle altered state of the Son of Gaia, could provide the same bonus, but only to the Garou who is accustomed to meditate in these ways.) Of course, you can get a critical failure while trying to overcome the glove. Typically, if a mirror is used as a focus, stress sends him to pieces. When methods are used less typical, more strange things can happen. Pity the poor Rosica Bones which is reflected in a pond in the city park. Cans soda on the bottom become a distraction, if it happens, it may take hours and hours with the advertisement soda jingle that echoes in my ears. Sometimes the "realms pocket" created by the Weaver are captured by the glove - a werewolf could end up in the middle of that spot or the same music video over and over until they can find a way out. When used strange focus , events can happen even more bizarre (but enlightening). A cell phone may receive a call from a dead person, that the unfortunate assillerà Glass Walker who is trusted more than his intuition of its technology. As a mirror along the wall could become a house of distorting mirrors, reflecting the moral defects of a Silver Fang vain. The flask for liquor poisoning may produce debilitating that no gift can disperse. Do not expect even the Umbra does what you want. It is said that each of these realms pocket has a solution which would come out. The Silver Fang vain may have to get rid of his makeup and his expensive clothes, while Rosica Bones could recycle the cans of stagno.Un Garou must not use a reflective surface when passing through the glove - it is simply the safest way . Without it, the more common danger is actually to be trapped in the canvases of Weaver. In these cases, another member of the flock may groped to pass the glove exactly the same spot and recover the poor fool. (Read: Groped a Gnosis roll with a difficulty higher.) Some complications may arise: the spirits of the Weaver could attack, or an important object may be lost forever. It is never the same thing twice. After all, if the actions always the same result, the pack might as well stay on Earth. Once you are facing the dangers of traveling in Umbria, the reality of humanity is left behind. Disconnecting
The shapeshifting are made to live between the Umbra and the physical world are creatures of both worlds, and it is good for them to maintain a balance between the two. For each year that passes without a Garou through the glove (one way or another, independently) increased the difficulty of an actual shooting. (The countdown begins on the day of the first suit of werewolf, not that of his birth.) This change may lead to the difficulty above 10, if a werewolf spent 10 years in Umbria, obviously can not go back. Then become a spirit in everything and everything here Storytellers may allow people to do the quests to reduce this disconnect (as long as the characters do not wait until it is too late.) For those who have more problems with werewolves exceed the Gloves (such as Bastet, although enter or leave the accounts as a realm-hole through the glove), the narrator might be a little 'more generous with the time limit. Remember, however, that this rule is proposed to simulate the need to recognize that a shape-shifting nature of both his physical and spiritual - to enable a shapeshifter to forget one of them without incurring any penalty might take to get the wrong idea of Werewolf.
Gnosticism
"Why Umbra work that way?" Calls for the puppy. "Why are some Garou through the glove easier than others? Why is it so difficult to reach the Umbra?" I give Garou many explanations, and many of them are correct. Many contradict one another, but they are correct. Some werewolves just do not care as long as capable of passing safely through the glove. Cubs wise to avoid completely take these topics to go directly to the topic successivo.Una explanation is the same: the world of man, the physical world, has become completely and utterly corrupt. Now that the Last Days are approaching, the world is completely overrun by the Wyrm, the Great Serpent who stirred up and destroys everything it touches, unraveling all creation. Yet the mystics and spiritualists can sense something more transcendental in the world around them, something magic that challenges the limits of the material world. Some call it spirit. The Garou call Gnosi.La Gnosis is gained through wisdom and contemplation, understanding and admiration. It transcends the reality of the physical world. On Earth, the Wyrm reigns supreme, but in the spiritual world resists the Wyld. If one can ignore the temptation of the physical world, then it can obtain the Gnosis. The Wyrm try with sins and vices. Weaver provides the material comforts and distractions. Most modern humans define the world in a way that denies the mysticism and magic. Gnosis transcends temptation simili.I Garou follow traditions much older than most of those used by humans. The rituals to preserve an understanding of Gnosis before the whole of human history, but some Garou come to that knowledge in ways most exotic. Since many of the challenging human certainties, whether or Ascent of Scrutastelle Rosica Bones sniffs a puddle of urine, they created humanity from the world are able to remember the world as it once was. Through the wisdom and meditation, Garou escapes the clutches of the Weaver and Wyrm to find Gaia in its purest form.
The Suburbs
Sometimes humans experience the wonders and the inspiration of Umbria, but in a limited way. You can think of suburbs as a place halfway between the Earth and the Penumbra, some call it Soft Umbra. The mystics engaged in a visionquest can briefly see the device while undergoing starvation and deprivation ascetic. Humans have a particular strength of will that are in a chemically altered state can experience it through a haze of intoxication and insanity, though they may be unable to distinguish it from hallucinations. The poets who dream with open eyes, when their creative powers are at the apex, may capture some fragments of his reality. They have a very limited understanding of the spirit, but is still higher than the human medio.Spesso Galliard consider the device as a sign of Gaia, the fact that something so rich and can get real the right person. Sometimes give the sensation from the periphery to Awen granted, their muse. In fact, some artists and visionaries Garou try to get the device to search for Awen along those same activities performed by humans. Others go to look into the depths of Umbria, or insist that Awen has a spiritual form that you can find. However, long ago, when the two worlds were still together, the device was also closer to the consciences of human beings. Now is masked from the distractions of the modern world, confused and covered the activity of the endless Weaver and projects of the tyrannical and draconian Wyrm.La device is not exactly a place, it is more a state mental, an increase in spiritual awareness that comes from himself. His spiritual residents are few and far between, and normally it is abstract as the spirit or Chimerling Epiphling who have found a way to enter other views even more strange. No werewolf has found a reliable way to overcome the glove and into the outskirts, walking on a cloud would be easier. That said, there are entries for some travelers who are lost in Umbria so much that they had found the edge by mistake, shoulder to shoulder with the dreams and visions that give inspiration to poets than to be crazy.
Innocence Lost
Once a hero returns from Umbria, it becomes painfully aware of how the physical world is missing. You may remember the story that the elders told him, "when, long ago, the two worlds were one." As one famous Galliard, "were not made of the same cloth, were the entire fabric. There were two sides of same coin: they were the indivisible face of reality." That is, until something separated them forever. After returning to the other side of the mirror, the hero traveler might ask: Why? Garou Many think that this separation was the result of any war in Tellurian, certainly a division in the Triad, the forces of Weaver and the Wyld of the Wyrm. Some blame the Weaver: a world of infinite imagination, Weaver went crazy trying to classify, categorize, and separate all (just like some homid). To cut what is not understood, its servants erected a barrier between the spiritual worlds. Some blame the Wyrm, when he became corrupt (so they say), the separation of the two worlds was the first step in his campaign to unravel the whole of creation. Others say it simply, there was a place in the world for the pure energy of the Wyld. After creating all the forces of the Wyld excess must go somewhere, then, the Umbra. The narrators and scholars claim that the dawn of history, men and women were aware of the nearness of the spiritual world. While the two worlds away, mankind moved away from a world of magic and endless possibilities, trapped in a realm of cold, hard facts of reality and quantifiable. Life lost its meaning intrinseco.Nel modern world, humans can not explain this feeling of loss that lies at the heart of everyone. Some try to fill the void with anything that could approximate the feeling of transcendence of the spiritual world. Seek his pale approximations whenever possible - through drugs, alcohol, television, sex senseless greed, intellectualization - but nothing fills the void. The spirits of the Wyrm and Weaver knows how to exploit this hunger, preying on human weaknesses. Humanity is moving blindly into a world cold and indifferent, looking for something that can never achieve. Even breeds Fera has lost much of their talent in crossing the glove, and are no longer able to rely on nearby Umbria. Garou But they have not forgotten. I remember werewolves, even if their memories fill them with rage. In a sense, the Umbra reflects the hopes, ideals and dreams of Garou. Renew their fight against the corruption of the physical world and yet still face in the spiritual world. As the world dies, the hopelessness and despair have gone deeper and deeper into the spiritual world, but conquer evil in distant realms of Umbria, the wolves found the courage and similar strength to face evil in the real world.
time and space pass in the Penumbra as happens in the physical world. If you've spent an hour watching the traffic in the Penumbra of Central Park before returning to the physical world, will be spent exactly one hour. If you go in front of the Bethesda Fountain in Umbria and walk three miles to the Strawberry Field garden, when you come back you'll find in the material world at the Strawberry Field Garden, three miles away. Deeper in Umbria these laws may not apply. But so close to Earth, the shadow cast by the planet, the distances are quite costanti.I Garou idealists believe that the Penumbra show the world as it appears in the vision of Gaia, the world as it should be. It 'true that the appearance of the physical world can be deceiving on the spiritual significance of something. In Penumbra, things appear according to their "importance" rather than according to their shape. This aspect of Penumbra is also revealed in the forms of spiritual mutaforma.Il body of a real shape-shifter is composed equally of flesh and spirit, and when a wolf enters the physical world, his appearance becomes almost completely in the flesh, and when it enters Umbria is true. The spiritual form of a Garou, to tell the truth is his body - just the fact of a different substance. However, sometimes materialize aesthetic alterations. For example, a Silver Fang is beautiful in both body and soul could shine with a radiance almost glowing, its nobility even more evident. The mantle of a Red Claw could shine like fire, his eyes almost fired by his passion. A Galliard of the Fianna would wear the same clothes with which it entered in Umbria, but its sacred tattoos may be more intense and vivid, and the way he put himself could remember the heroes of legend, instead of a boy of twenty-first century. A Silent Strider who suffers the loss of his love may appear darker and colder, as if a shadow had fallen on him. These variations are always smaller, as mentioned earlier, the spiritual body of a werewolf is the same physical body, not an idealized form. But being creatures of spirit, the shapeshifting resonate more clearly when they are in the spiritual world - are, in some way, to casa.Gli same principles of "spiritual image" apply to the physical landscape. An old church that was attended by the faithful for two hundred years is a spiritual stronghold. A sacred oak tree where the witch doctors have conducted ceremonies for decades is undoubtedly powerful. The hot dog cart that was parked in the same place every day for an entire week, do not even let the air un'odore Penumbra. Using the same analogy, when a megacorporations pours millions of dollars in an office building there and moved hundreds of employees, probably you will know. The geometric shapes from the contours of the building may have Platonic perfection, while the spirits of the Weaver that run the phone lines, whistling in the cables of computers, which are trapped in the fluorescent lights, humming, whispering cryptic canitcchiano and incunabula to the world around them . The consequences of physical things in Penumbra are made of matter and spirit, some call this substance 'ephemeral'. The buildings do not have much spiritual significance may not have solid reflections of the facts fleeting, but this does not mean that a werewolf could walk through walls at will. To go through a wall that is only partially solid (eg a building with some spiritual significance, but not much), the Storyteller may require a shot of Gnosis to allow the werewolf to pass unharmed. In addition to other areas of technology concentration attract the spirits of Weaver - many office buildings are full of Umbria as large sheets of canvas without a real structure to them. However, we can pave the way for splitting, breaking and tearing the short-lived just like you can do in the physical world. In the realm of the spirit, all things are possible; just that some require more time and effort of altre.Anche environmental hazards are variable. For example, a werewolf that passes through the glove while on an airplane might well be in trouble if the plane does not have a counterpart ephemeral. (I know that werewolves have to travel by air would be better for the air to celebrate the Rite of Awakening the Spirits in advance if you can do so without getting caught.) And 'Can a person drown in the water of Penumbra, or Penumbra choke in deep space - however, the werewolves and the spirits are allowed to do a roll Gnosis, difficulty 6, to accommodate the sitazione for the duration of a scene. The fires of short-lived, however, cause damage, but the Penumbra a hot desert is still livable. It is for the Narrator, from time to time, decide which risks you can adapt, and which remain pericolosi.Col time, the actions taken against the things in the material world has an effect on their reflection in the spiritual world, and vice versa. If a venerable church was demolished to make way for a covered parking, its presence could still be perceived in the Penumbra, at least until the Weaver takes over to complete the new building. If a school opens the way for breaking the same ephemeral port again and again, the physical port will begin to slowly degrade. The pack could rip the canvas, crush the spirits of children who reside in Weaver lock, or simply fold the ephemeral with the Gift Open Seal. In the physical world, the hinges of the door may begin to creak, or could begin to close badly, or the lock mechanism could begin to take male.Una selective destruction applied to the plague-stricken areas of Umbria may help their corresponding physical locations in heal. Mash a few hundred blacks and toxic worms that infest the spiritual reflection of a fast food type O'Tolley, and contamination of the Wyrm, which is found in potato chips may come off. Yet, these actions are always unpredictable. The old depressed that oversees the fryer could resign on the same day or the next one could be the food less disgusting. Obviously cut to zero all the trees of a forest will not promote the well-being contaminated in any way. The Garou may see things the same way as ephemeral materials, but the actions they may rely on very different results. Destroy the evil in Umbria is not enough: the Garou live in both worlds, and must fight for both fermarlo.I reflexes of animals, humans and other sentient creatures can not be destroyed in this way. If a werewolf claw a shadow of a person in the Penumbra, this person felt a shiver, the proverbial sensation of someone walking on his grave - but there will be no adverse effects. The spiritual reflection a person is not his anima.Questi principles are absolute? Absolutely not. The Penumbra is not an accurate reflection of the Earth. Like everything about the spirit and magic, is sometimes capricious and unpredictable. Some theurgists explain that every physical object has a spiritual force behind him. If the spirits are minimally conscious, are unpredictable, with a limited free will. This frustrates homid endless, but it also creates great stories for Galliard (and Storytellers). Again, the farther from Earth, the less the land laws apply.
Eternal Mystery
Garou When they see the spiritual reflections, they interpret what they find in terms of what we understand. If these similarities were always expressed in exactly the same way, the Umbra would be easier to understand. Unfortunately not. Every puppy knows that the spirits are in the shape of the Weaver spider, for example, but it is said that these spirits should always have the appearance of the same species of spiders. Strange insect larvae could weave the sticky dirt. Vibrating tentacled blob could float above the energy matrices. Symbolism in Umbria can change, in areas where the Wyld is strong, it can also change very velocemente.Secondo the same analogy, the first time that a Garou of visiting a realm controlled by Weaver, giant spiders may rushing towards them, trying to calcify in their paintings. The next time you run through a region controlled by Weaver, humanoid in riot gear surrounded and groped could be dropped with clouds of poison gas. The third time, faceless men in suits groped could be wrapped with tape red. In each case, were attacked by the same kind of spirit of the Weaver (with the same game mechanics), but their shape is different. Even in the kingdoms ruled by stagnant, things can change depending on the region. In short, the Garou should be careful (and Storytellers should take note): The umbra is never predictable.
Awakening I argue that
theurgists each object in the material world has a spiritual element in it, after all, can see the evidence for it every time they enter Umbria. It 's a simple expansion of the animistic belief that cultivated so carefully. Some items are more spiritually "dead" than others. A transient object of marginal importance or significance of a very pale reflection of Umbria, or even ha.Alcuni mystics are not able to awaken a spirit that resides in an object, in particular with a special ceremony. Nobody would pay attention to a PC 386 at the bottom of an abandoned warehouse and a Theurgist of Glass Walkers who celebrated the Rite of Awakening of Spirits can shake the spirit resides there. In his spiritual reflection, a brood of spiders sleepy-spirit begin to stretch out, picking up loose pieces of code and doing a quick scan of the data files. A playground may have been abandoned for many years, but if a Theurgist of Rosica Bone celebrates the same rite, it could facilitate its task of cleansing the filth around, perhaps making it again a vital part of quartiere.Gli humans can do the same thing in everyday life, but with a lower caliber, even if they are not conscious. When a person is an object with care and attention, the spirit within it is fed. Over time, the object gains meaning, and its reflection ephemeral gains strength. A car ten years old that remains to rust in an empty parking lot could be spiritually dead, or might even be haunted by the spirits of the Wyrm. If a mechanic retrieves it and tries in every way to get up again as an object of antiquity, the spirit inside of awakening. Umbria may even appear just as it was ten years ago. A nursery full of plush toys is suffused with the glow in Umbria, a good stereo view of the bright pulses of energy Weaver.Ovunque the light goes out, darkness is spreading. Forgotten places or polluted take a "dark reflection." There are places in the physical world where horrific crimes were committed, where innocent people have been abused and victimized. The spiritual world also reflects this. A slaughterhouse may be stained red, and the echo of the bleating of animals still can be felt. If people of a district murmur prayers as they pass in front of the abandoned "house of the murders," granting power to the spiritual contamination that haunts. A simple rite might not be enough to erase an atrocity of this magnitude, much greater efforts are necessari.Gli Wyrm spirits are attracted by places where sin and vices are strong. Such filth Umbria are often blurred by darkness and shadows. Humans in the material world can groped to hide some of these places, but they are clearly visible in Umbria. The slight outline of a human could take the veins of black corruption if it is a fertile ground for contamination of the Wyrm. The spirits of the besieged people of that kind, whispering and waving until the time seems propitious for the actual possession propria.Va said that just as there are light and darkness, there are always shades of gray. In the modern world, large areas of the city are colored pesaggio moral ambiguity.
spiritual perception
Just like the Garou may pass from one world to another (through the glove), some spirits can pass from the realm Penumbra Earth, and back again. Consuming their enrgia may materialize in the physical world. More or less they can see where things are in the material world, watching their reflections. The spirits are attracted by the light of the Wyld, Wyrm those of darkness. Some spirits are trying to steal instead of creatures who have watched from Umbria. These ephemera are hidden in the physical world, but they are often clearly visible in the spirit world. A madman may have a secret that the spirits of the Wyrm strip on the back that whispers his madness, and only in Umbria this truth will be hidden rivelata.Senza the use of special gifts, or blessings of fetishes, a Garou can not give Umbria check directly from the physical world. Even when they are able to enter into such a trance, their vision of the spiritual world is very limited. The werewolves are much easier to see Penumbra peek from the material world, the spirits can do the same thing (this is the way many Flagella are their victims). Groped such an undertaking requires focus and spiritual strength, because it requires the ability to interpret the meaning of spiritual reflections. (Because of this, if a character is 'peering,' the number of dice in the shooting of perception can not be greater than its Gnosis.) Having peeked through the terrestrial realm Glove, actually affect the physical world requires that the Garou leave the Umbra again. Continuously through the glove might attract the attention of the Weaver. (In game terms, if the players continue to pass through the glove in the same area repeatedly, the difficulty of the shot to increase by 1 after each attempt.)
Other Penumbrae
The Garou of all the tribes through the glove and reach the Penumbra regularly, but the Galliard and theurgists some tribes tell stories about other Penumbrae. Those who feel the need to be precise in an attempt to categorize all of creation, refer to the Penumbra described above with the term "Penumbra Nigh." However, there are other altre.Queste Penumbrae are rarely visited, and it is almost impossible for a case to reach the Garou. This is because they are not at all related to Umbria Close - the source of the powers of shapeshifting. It is said that the physical world is casting a shadow that Umbria Umbria Deep Dark - and the resulting Penumbrae are legends for Garou. The Silent Striders hint at a "land of the dead," a shadowy realm inhabited by ghosts instead of spirits, which can be accessed only through the celebration of a ritual, the Scrutastelle assume the existence of an "astral Penumbra," and defined as cousin of suburbia. Even the Glass Walkers wonder if there might be a Penumbra linked to virtual reality and cyberspace, although it is difficult to imagine such a thing existed in any form before the twentieth century. Luckily for the puppy average, these theories are not very common for most of the Garou, the Penumbra Penumbra is Nigh, the only one they need conoscere.Le other "real" Penumbrae are far from common experience - the Penumbra Moon and the other planets of the solar system. E 'theoretically possible, at least according to some theurgy, a werewolf who find their way through the spiritual world that would lead to the Penumbra of Mars or Venus - or even further. The trip would not necessarily be lethal, but it certainly would be difficult. However, no life that enriches the other planets and their spiritual shadows, the spirits who are there would be little the allies. How could one persuade spirit of the need to protect the forests and oceans, where it had never even seen a bud or a puddle? Even the vacuum of space casts a shadow in the Penumbra, although the glove is awfully thin between the planets and stars. Ragabash Some tell stories of human mystics who believe in the absence of an "outer space," that the spacecraft and artificial satellites are somehow magical objects that travel in the spirit world. ("And then we call primitive ...") However, mystics and occultists are familiar with the meanings associated with such celestial bodies. Crude definitions can never define their deeper meanings and spiritual. A Theurgist could say that Mars is a planet the war, "but in fact, Mars is ruled by her complexion Planetarium - which perhaps is even topped with a Celestine. A mystic might claim that Mars influences what happens on Earth, but the spirit of the planet may very well have an opinion on merit. When you are on the banks of the Ethereal Realm, or meditate on the havens at a Anchorhead, the vibrations of these worlds are dimly discernible, echoing the form of the enigmatic "Music of the Spheres." Member Scrustastelle can spend the whole time life to study this strange and enlightening musica.Alcuni heroes Garou dare to cross the airwaves to reach those realms. each incarnation has its own unique wisdom to be granted, along with his gifts and his blessing. Just like the Garou can form a herd based on a totem of Gaia, the largest of the heroes Garou come from a herd that has a planetarium as totem embodies. Obviously this requires that they make a visionquest through the Umbra to find their totem spirit. In recent years, whole herds of senior citizens (the highest ranking Garou) have taken this rim is among the most glorious, so they can find new hope for their dying world.
Glove
There is a barrier placed between the Earth and the Penumbra, a construct that is said to have been erected by Weaver in order to maintain the physical world. The Garou must pass to enter the Gauntlet in Umbria. I viewed describe the act of crossing the glove like a caress of silk as a heavy offset (sometimes impossibly hard) soft velvet curtain - so many poetic Galliard refer to Umbria with the name of Velvet Shadow. Others describe the feeling tearing as cobwebs, as offset lace to reveal a bright candle, or how to feel the breath of the weakest of sussurri.Il glove is a creation of Weaver, and as such, the barrier is thicker than the order is everywhere stronger. In the heart of the largest cities, or hidden in the high-security areas of hi-tech laboratories, the Garou are difficult to escape in the Penumbra. There, the laws of man reigns supreme. In same spirit, places where nature is stronger, usually deep in the wilderness, the glove is weaker. Meditating in the forest, it is easier to imagine the world as where to be before human history began. There are some sacred places in which the repeated use of magic rites and kept the glove particularly weak. The Caerna are places of power for the Garou, where the force of the spiritual world can be called and focused, and so are the favorite places to cross the glove puppies, or other inexperienced Cliath Umbria. The glove is consequently in a low Caerna, and reduced risk. (The fact that Garou elders are nearby, in so you can save the young flocks in the event of failure, is an additional advantage.) Other sites frequented by different supernatural creatures hidden - for example, the stone circle of a band of modern Druids, or the top of a hill on which says you possess the fairy creatures - they have similar opportunities. But these places are almost always defended in some way, for the puppies, call the biggest dangers of such places to cross the glove mondane.Proprio areas as there are other Penumbrae, there are other gloves, but not many Garou if they care about. The realm of the dead and other such places can not be attained without the use of rare and secret rituals, so most of the werewolves have heard at most of these gloves "alternative." For most of the time when the wolves are for gloves, the gloves are talking about dividing the land and Near Penumbra.
Pass the gloves and come Trapped
The journey to the spirit world should not be taken lightly. Only fools try to do the puppies before their rite of passage. Many are too weak spiritually to homid groped without taking a big risk. Some believe addirittira to know the "shortcuts" to the spirit world, I think I've already experienced during trance, after ingenstione of drugs, or during a massive poisoning. (These errors have a source, as see below). Garou Puppies learn very simple methods. Meditation observing a reflective surface is the most diretto.I theurgists Fianna argue that because of the spiritual world is a "reflection" of the physical world, a mirror or a crystal clear lake has a perfect affinity required by such magic. Even Bones Rosica share this belief, but often meditate on pools of very different substances. The reflective surface is actually a kind of crutch. Mirrors are commonly used as a focus, but they are not the only ones. Garou enlightened mystics or find it easier to make the trip by using other means. The Children of Gaia may prefer previously mentioned altered states. One could Scrutastelle smooth stones in a Zen garden or deep breathing while performing a kata of tai chi. People are less harmonized difficult meditazione.Molti werewolves bring their special talismans to help them overcome the glove, depending on different types of reflective objects. A Uktena could see a sparkling gem that was donated by a tribal shaman. Rosica A Bones could have with him a flask for liquor, made of metal and polished mirror. A Glass Walker could simply watch with joy the display of his mobile phone. Just as there are few absolutes about the world of spirits, so that no two Garou must necessarily relate to it the same way. (In game terms, one of these objects gives a -1 to the difficulty of the shot to pass the glove, just as would a mirror. At the discretion of the Narrator, other techniques such as the meditative Zen Garden or the Scrustastelle altered state of the Son of Gaia, could provide the same bonus, but only to the Garou who is accustomed to meditate in these ways.) Of course, you can get a critical failure while trying to overcome the glove. Typically, if a mirror is used as a focus, stress sends him to pieces. When methods are used less typical, more strange things can happen. Pity the poor Rosica Bones which is reflected in a pond in the city park. Cans soda on the bottom become a distraction, if it happens, it may take hours and hours with the advertisement soda jingle that echoes in my ears. Sometimes the "realms pocket" created by the Weaver are captured by the glove - a werewolf could end up in the middle of that spot or the same music video over and over until they can find a way out. When used strange focus , events can happen even more bizarre (but enlightening). A cell phone may receive a call from a dead person, that the unfortunate assillerà Glass Walker who is trusted more than his intuition of its technology. As a mirror along the wall could become a house of distorting mirrors, reflecting the moral defects of a Silver Fang vain. The flask for liquor poisoning may produce debilitating that no gift can disperse. Do not expect even the Umbra does what you want. It is said that each of these realms pocket has a solution which would come out. The Silver Fang vain may have to get rid of his makeup and his expensive clothes, while Rosica Bones could recycle the cans of stagno.Un Garou must not use a reflective surface when passing through the glove - it is simply the safest way . Without it, the more common danger is actually to be trapped in the canvases of Weaver. In these cases, another member of the flock may groped to pass the glove exactly the same spot and recover the poor fool. (Read: Groped a Gnosis roll with a difficulty higher.) Some complications may arise: the spirits of the Weaver could attack, or an important object may be lost forever. It is never the same thing twice. After all, if the actions always the same result, the pack might as well stay on Earth. Once you are facing the dangers of traveling in Umbria, the reality of humanity is left behind. Disconnecting
The shapeshifting are made to live between the Umbra and the physical world are creatures of both worlds, and it is good for them to maintain a balance between the two. For each year that passes without a Garou through the glove (one way or another, independently) increased the difficulty of an actual shooting. (The countdown begins on the day of the first suit of werewolf, not that of his birth.) This change may lead to the difficulty above 10, if a werewolf spent 10 years in Umbria, obviously can not go back. Then become a spirit in everything and everything here Storytellers may allow people to do the quests to reduce this disconnect (as long as the characters do not wait until it is too late.) For those who have more problems with werewolves exceed the Gloves (such as Bastet, although enter or leave the accounts as a realm-hole through the glove), the narrator might be a little 'more generous with the time limit. Remember, however, that this rule is proposed to simulate the need to recognize that a shape-shifting nature of both his physical and spiritual - to enable a shapeshifter to forget one of them without incurring any penalty might take to get the wrong idea of Werewolf.
Gnosticism
"Why Umbra work that way?" Calls for the puppy. "Why are some Garou through the glove easier than others? Why is it so difficult to reach the Umbra?" I give Garou many explanations, and many of them are correct. Many contradict one another, but they are correct. Some werewolves just do not care as long as capable of passing safely through the glove. Cubs wise to avoid completely take these topics to go directly to the topic successivo.Una explanation is the same: the world of man, the physical world, has become completely and utterly corrupt. Now that the Last Days are approaching, the world is completely overrun by the Wyrm, the Great Serpent who stirred up and destroys everything it touches, unraveling all creation. Yet the mystics and spiritualists can sense something more transcendental in the world around them, something magic that challenges the limits of the material world. Some call it spirit. The Garou call Gnosi.La Gnosis is gained through wisdom and contemplation, understanding and admiration. It transcends the reality of the physical world. On Earth, the Wyrm reigns supreme, but in the spiritual world resists the Wyld. If one can ignore the temptation of the physical world, then it can obtain the Gnosis. The Wyrm try with sins and vices. Weaver provides the material comforts and distractions. Most modern humans define the world in a way that denies the mysticism and magic. Gnosis transcends temptation simili.I Garou follow traditions much older than most of those used by humans. The rituals to preserve an understanding of Gnosis before the whole of human history, but some Garou come to that knowledge in ways most exotic. Since many of the challenging human certainties, whether or Ascent of Scrutastelle Rosica Bones sniffs a puddle of urine, they created humanity from the world are able to remember the world as it once was. Through the wisdom and meditation, Garou escapes the clutches of the Weaver and Wyrm to find Gaia in its purest form.
The Suburbs
Sometimes humans experience the wonders and the inspiration of Umbria, but in a limited way. You can think of suburbs as a place halfway between the Earth and the Penumbra, some call it Soft Umbra. The mystics engaged in a visionquest can briefly see the device while undergoing starvation and deprivation ascetic. Humans have a particular strength of will that are in a chemically altered state can experience it through a haze of intoxication and insanity, though they may be unable to distinguish it from hallucinations. The poets who dream with open eyes, when their creative powers are at the apex, may capture some fragments of his reality. They have a very limited understanding of the spirit, but is still higher than the human medio.Spesso Galliard consider the device as a sign of Gaia, the fact that something so rich and can get real the right person. Sometimes give the sensation from the periphery to Awen granted, their muse. In fact, some artists and visionaries Garou try to get the device to search for Awen along those same activities performed by humans. Others go to look into the depths of Umbria, or insist that Awen has a spiritual form that you can find. However, long ago, when the two worlds were still together, the device was also closer to the consciences of human beings. Now is masked from the distractions of the modern world, confused and covered the activity of the endless Weaver and projects of the tyrannical and draconian Wyrm.La device is not exactly a place, it is more a state mental, an increase in spiritual awareness that comes from himself. His spiritual residents are few and far between, and normally it is abstract as the spirit or Chimerling Epiphling who have found a way to enter other views even more strange. No werewolf has found a reliable way to overcome the glove and into the outskirts, walking on a cloud would be easier. That said, there are entries for some travelers who are lost in Umbria so much that they had found the edge by mistake, shoulder to shoulder with the dreams and visions that give inspiration to poets than to be crazy.
Innocence Lost
Once a hero returns from Umbria, it becomes painfully aware of how the physical world is missing. You may remember the story that the elders told him, "when, long ago, the two worlds were one." As one famous Galliard, "were not made of the same cloth, were the entire fabric. There were two sides of same coin: they were the indivisible face of reality." That is, until something separated them forever. After returning to the other side of the mirror, the hero traveler might ask: Why? Garou Many think that this separation was the result of any war in Tellurian, certainly a division in the Triad, the forces of Weaver and the Wyld of the Wyrm. Some blame the Weaver: a world of infinite imagination, Weaver went crazy trying to classify, categorize, and separate all (just like some homid). To cut what is not understood, its servants erected a barrier between the spiritual worlds. Some blame the Wyrm, when he became corrupt (so they say), the separation of the two worlds was the first step in his campaign to unravel the whole of creation. Others say it simply, there was a place in the world for the pure energy of the Wyld. After creating all the forces of the Wyld excess must go somewhere, then, the Umbra. The narrators and scholars claim that the dawn of history, men and women were aware of the nearness of the spiritual world. While the two worlds away, mankind moved away from a world of magic and endless possibilities, trapped in a realm of cold, hard facts of reality and quantifiable. Life lost its meaning intrinseco.Nel modern world, humans can not explain this feeling of loss that lies at the heart of everyone. Some try to fill the void with anything that could approximate the feeling of transcendence of the spiritual world. Seek his pale approximations whenever possible - through drugs, alcohol, television, sex senseless greed, intellectualization - but nothing fills the void. The spirits of the Wyrm and Weaver knows how to exploit this hunger, preying on human weaknesses. Humanity is moving blindly into a world cold and indifferent, looking for something that can never achieve. Even breeds Fera has lost much of their talent in crossing the glove, and are no longer able to rely on nearby Umbria. Garou But they have not forgotten. I remember werewolves, even if their memories fill them with rage. In a sense, the Umbra reflects the hopes, ideals and dreams of Garou. Renew their fight against the corruption of the physical world and yet still face in the spiritual world. As the world dies, the hopelessness and despair have gone deeper and deeper into the spiritual world, but conquer evil in distant realms of Umbria, the wolves found the courage and similar strength to face evil in the real world.
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