Panthesilea is a Totem of the Amazon.
Overview[]
Panthesilea may once have been the spirit of one of the first Black Furies to ever set foot in the Amazon Basin. In time, the collective spirit of the Amazon has continually reinforced her power and she has grown to represent the Amazon's beauty, mystery, and fierce vitality.
Panthesilea is perhaps one of the most difficult of the Amazon totems to contact, and she rarely chooses an entire pack. When she manifests, she focuses on one member of her chosen pack and totally possesses that person, speaking to the pack through that one and taking a hand in the business she feels needs to be done. This possession, sadly, causes madness in all but the most strong-willed of Garou. The possessed one must make a Willpower roll, difficulty 9. Unless three successes are scored, they lose one point of Willpower per possession. Panthesilea's consciousness is vast and complicated, reflecting the diversity and wilderness that is the Amazon.
She is concerned with the longevity and vivacity of both the spiritual and psychological life of the Amazon. Currently, she is involved with trying to stop the mass-production of fetishes and talens, as this process results in many of the Amazonian nature spirits being sucked away.
Traits & Ban[]
- Background Cost: 9
Traits[]
The pack member possessed by Panthesilea immediately develops an effective Pure Breed of 5 for the duration of possession. (The Totem's commands are exceedingly had to ignore.) They also have an effective Leadership skill of 7, Melee of 5, and Brawl of 7. Panthesilea often directs the activities of the pack with her talents, organizing them into an elite fighting force.
The rest of the pack gains the Silent Strider Gift: Attunement. Any animal native to the Amazon will never harm one of her children. The packs she chooses instantly gain alliance with all the native Uktena, Bastet, and Mokolé in the area; they all know instinctively someone touched by this totem.
Ban[]
Panthesilea will often give her children missions to undertake. If they do not follow her orders in such things, she leaves them. The nature of the missions are usually to right the balance of the ecosystem, but the specifics are up to the Storyteller.
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References[]
- WTA: Rage Across the Amazon, p. 113-114
- Rage: Rage War of the Amazon Set