A Ravenous Locust is a fomor of hunger and disease that has progressed to an advanced stage of Bane possession.
Overview[]
A Ravenous Locust infesting the London metro
Ravenous Locusts have been completely consumed by a Bane spirit of hunger and disease. They have few identifiably human feelings and wear their mortal frame like camouflage to creep closer to their prey. Locusts are thin and frail creatures, burning with hunger, but they wish to drink deeply of the blood of Gaia and thereby grow fat on what waning bounty she still has.
Abilities[]
Ravenous Locusts can damage caerns and consume other places of spiritual power to become more potent and even multiply. While in such a place of power, they gain a bonus to Health and all Physical dice pools corresponding to the puissance of the site in question. Moreover, if the site has any special characteristics or advantages, a Ravenous Locust may gain special powers relevant to those characteristics. For example, a site dedicated to honored Garou fallen in battle might grant a Ravenous Locust the ability to use a twisted version of one of their Gifts while at the site.
Each time a Ravenous Locust feeds from that caern or place of power, which it may do once per scene when it’s present, the site is permanently weakened and may well draw other Banes or Ravenous Locusts. A caern exposed to too much of this spiritual vampirism in this way needs to be reawakened by using the Rite of Caern Building, to say nothing of the ravaging Banes now present.
Statistics[]
- General Difficulty: 4 / 2
- Standard Dice Pools: Physical 4, Social 5, Mental 6
- Secondary Attributes: Health (Enhanced) 5, Willpower 6
- Exceptional Dice Pools: Awareness 8, Brawl 7, Occult 8, Stealth 7
References[]
- WTA: 5th Edition Core Book, p. 266