Blind Justice
Blind Justice is an Elodoth Totem, as well as a Pure pack totem that shares the same name for The Lex Talionis.
Background[]
A rare few packs contain only Elodoth. Some form by chance, while others are a matter of conscious choice. Whatever the case, a pack of Half Moons is a powerful and versatile tool, capable of negotiating their way out of trouble or rending foes with tooth and claw as the situation warrants. Other packs of Elodoth form to judge their fellow werewolves. If it holds territory, a pack of judges does not wish to expand. Rather, members hold court over nearby packs, acting as mediators in disputes and a tribunal that judges fellow Uratha. Such packs often find spirits of justice as patrons, and none is as great as Blind Justice, She Who Judges Without Favor.
Human interpretation has shaped Blind Justice some: she looks much like a female human clothed in a billowing robe. Her eyes are empty sockets that never stop bleeding, and her hands are shackled in front of her - she's a slave to evidence and to the truth. A yoke stretches across her shoulders, bearing two large pans: she is the scale in which facts are weighed. Blind Justice's ban is severe for any werewolf who prefers to temper raw justice with wisdom. Beyond that, she's a driving, active totem who won't stand for a pack that ignores its duty to her. While she doesn't stoop to the level of micromanaging the pack, she can sometimes push packmates too far in service of her own agenda, and can demand that the pack neglect their territory to right an injustice that a fellow spirit had heard of.
Only a pack of Elodoth can have Blind Justice as a totem, and she costs 17 points.
Stats[]
Attributes: Power 4, Finesse 3, Resistance 3
Willpower: 6
Essence: 15
Initiative: 6
Defense: 4
Speed: 12
Size: 5
Corpus: 8
Influences: Justice **
Numina: Chorus, Material Vision
Bonuses: Wits 2 (story); Investigation 1 (given)
Ban: Pack members can only take two things into account when making a decision; what they have seen as a pack, and what they have a reliable eyewitness to. Deciding based on gut feeling or social pressure or anything other than cold, hard facts removes the totem's bonuses until the pack have resolved a difficult situation according to the totem's ban.
Cost: 17; Elodoth Only
Lex Talionis Pack Totem[]
The Lex Talionis' totem is a spirit of imperfect justice, one that embodies the subtle corruption that often takes root in a nobler ideal. The pack is aware that their totem does not embody justice in its purest state, but they have come to terms with that; they realize that a spirit of imperfect justice thrives better in the cities of humanity than a "nobler" spirit would. Blind Justice manifests in human-like form, an animated statue of cracked marble and dark wood with a bleeding cloth draped around where its eyes would be.
Stats[]
Attributes: Power 4, Finesse 4, Resistance 4
Willpower: 8
Essence: 15
Initiative: 8
Defense: 4
Speed: 14
Size: 6
Corpus: 8
Influences: Truth **
Numina: Material Sense, Reaching
Bonuses: Gift: Soul Read (pack), 16 Essence pool/story
Ban: The pack must punish themselves once per month, under the new moon, for any sins they may have committed in the "sight" of Blind Justice. They must make ritual offerings of blood for any sins of violence, sacrifice material goods to repay acts of theft or destruction, and so forth. Blind Justice's demands are more symbolic than literally equal - the spirit may ask for a blood offering if one of its children murders a Forsaken werewolf, but it will not ask for a life in return for a life. The spirit's own prejudices against the Uratha inform the punishments it demands from its adopted pack.
References[]
- WTF: Signs of the Moon, p. 107-108
- CofD: World of Darkness: Chicago, p. 218