Uprooted

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Greater Gaffling, Conceptual Spirit, Ideological Choir, Pack Totem

Uprooted is the pack totem of the Circle of the Stone Garden.

Description

It never appears the same twice. It might be a tired-looking black woman carrying a small child once and a Japanese man with an overstuffed valaise the next time.

Storytelling Hints

Uprooted embodies perseverance and reminds people that their troubles are surmountable, despite appearances. It is sensitive to the differences between humans and sympathetic of the pain these differences cause.

Stats

• Attributes: Power 3, Finesse 3, Resistance 3.
• Willpower: 6
• Essence: 15
• Initiative: 6
• Defense: 3
• Speed: 8
• Size: 2
• Corpus: 5
• Influences: Fortitude 2.
• Numina: Material Vision, Wild Sense.
• Ban: Uprooted cannot enter any home that has been occupied by the same people for longer than a year.

Pack Totem

• Bonuses: Gift: Camaraderie (pack), Gift: Sense Malice (given)
• Ban: At the beginning of every year, each member of the pack must leave their home, taking with them no more than they can carry.
• Cost: 20

Background

The Uprooted is the spirit of being forced from one’s home by bigotry, specific to a neighborhood where two groups (the Japanese and African-Americans) have been uprooted by the government because of their race. It also has drawn power from people who have settled in this city after being driven from their homes because of race, nationality, or sexuality. It teaches its children to be sensitive to the enmity of others and how to come together in spite of it.