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Losing the Wolf?

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vegasrage Posted: 11 Oct 2009 8:45 PM
Got a question for you all; The Changing Breeds can lose their shifting gift if they neglect shifting for too long, but can the Uratha? I thought I saw something somewhere about this happening, but the only thing I can find now is them becoming Broken Souls.

At the moment I have a CB who's on the verge of losing the Nuahl and the only experienced shifters he has around him are Forsaken. Now, since CBs are rare to begin with, if none of the Forsaken have ever encountered something like this before, my boy's up shit's creek without a paddle in sight.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Well I'll give you a warning I may be one of the few people around here who isn't bias around here. I personally very much enjoyed CB a lot though others say it sucked, but to the subject.

I don't remember seeing there anywhere for werewolves I sort of looked at it like this, with all materials being tool boxes anyways, if you did say changing breeds existed is that the Forsaken/Pure have been around long enough to "evolve" past this disability that the CB have through much breeding with humans over the centuries has stabilized the bound of spirit and flesh while the rareness of the CB leaves them still shaky so you could have them discover a myth about a past werewolf when they were still young and how he almost lost it or even more plot hookish lost it and regained it again, then you can have him loose it and have to find it again in the shadow or something.

Make sure to twist the myth full of Forsaken propaganda, meaning, most changing breeds do not believe in the Forsaken origins especially CB werewolves (The Forgotten) so in the myth you should add stuff like Lunes sent from or Luna herself warning a member of the first(second, third, etc.) pack telling him that his actions would cause him to loose his wolf.

Or another rote you could go is have a another CB come on the scene a Forgotten maybe and warn him about it, there is a hundred different ways for him to come into the picture and make sense I can make suggestion he you want to go this rote. I mean you can say that all the CB and Forsaken/Pure can feel the spirit side slipping away and it makes them uneasy and edgy around him, I can come up with more if you please. 
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Thanks, that was a help. I liked the last suggestion the best.
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There isnt a canonical system for Forsaken in which the werewolf loses his shapeshifting prowess due to his actions. The used to be something similar to it on Apocalyse, though. Thematically, 6 out of 10 (perhaps 9 out of 10 just after First Change) werewolves would like to know a way to let their second nature, the predator, the spirit go dormant, since their burden is something big.

There are high level gift which surpress the "curse". They lose their regeneration, their shapeshifting, their essence chaneling. They become humans for a time, usually to pass unoticed. (The gifts can be found in the Rage: Forsaken Player Guide.)
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If a wolf doesn't change for a while, they don't lose the ability, they take harmony hits.
Not shapeshifting into an alternative form for a week or more is a sin against harmony.

Harmony doesn't necessarily limit your ability to change shape, but there's alot of other things that harmony affects.
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It's not supported by the background that you could lose the Wolf.  Remember, the Uratha aren't man-wolf hybrids.  They're man-flesh-spirit-wolf hybrids, and probably fairly close kin to the Hosts.  They're fundamentally not human anymore; their souls are a weird mix of human and the material of the Shadow, and I'd say they wouldn't stop being Uratha just if they don't change.  Because they're not just spiritually linked to wolves.

Although, yes, it does hurt high levels of Harmony.
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