Magnus' Local Spirits Compendium

IMPORTANT The list below is an IC compendium that Magnus Nilsen put together based on speaking to elder Theurges about the local spirits and running through the umbra himself. He has made it available to all at the Caern and will work on updating it as the spirit courts change. OOCly, use this list as you will. The spirit world is largely flavored by the individual’s perception of reality, so what Magnus notes below may not be what you experience (aka use it or don’t…completely up to you!). That being said, if you wish to use them for a PRP scene, great! Let Magnus know via @mail and we can add updates to the current status of the courts and chiminages.

City Spirits

STAFF NOTE: All details of this spirit is unknown. Ideas of how the City Parent works are potential OOC suggestions only and should be passed by staff prior to using
City Parent – The City Parent could be run as a spirit of hope and promises of a fresh start. It could appear as a laid back surfer dude on an endless summer easy ride, as a pregnant beaming mother with young children and roses at her feet as she walks, or as a black man in a 3 piece suit with a US flag pin and a plan for ‘hopeful change’. The city parent could even be run as a spirit able to switch between all three forms as it sees fit (generally falling into a form of your current transition: Changes of lifestyles - surfer, changes of life or love - mother, socio-political or religious changes - the politician/priest/community organizer...) Again, pass these by staff prior to running.

City Parent Court

The city is littered with weaver spirits, spirits of famous landmarks, and spirits of old buildings cemented in the city’s identity (think Statue of Liberty or the St. Louis Arch). Districts also have their own spirits:

Chinatown:

Spirit of Immigration (Low Court Status): Spirits that ask you to help those who need help. They will help you in turn. They take the form of whomever you most associate as an immigrant.

Ancestor spirits (High Court Status): Your own or another’s ancestor who typically are looking for recognition in exchange for help with what they know.

Beach/Harbor District:

Big Wave (High Court Status): Elemental asking to attempt to be ridden. Big Wave can help carry you across long ocean distances...unless you fall off and end up who knows where.

The Perfect Tan (Low Court Status): A crisped girl in a bikini or guy in a speedo that wants the juiciest gossip and to be smeared with oil in exchange for juicy spirit gossip.

Summer Love (Low Court Status): Summer love is often seen as intertwined teens with braces that would rather you leave them be...but if pestered long enough they may provide you with a new and fashionable look to turn heads. On second thought, maybe we just stay away from the beach spirits...

The Highway:

Iconic Muscle Cars Spirits (Low Court Status): Mustang, Barracuda, or GTO are constantly looking for praise and speed or fuel (in the way of eating you), but can get you from point A to B if you can wrangle them into submission.

The spirits of 18 wheelers (Low Court Status): These spirits haul anything you need; if only you can get them to stop. They are tank-like in determination and drive and will not slow down for you to unload what you need.

Mini-van (Low Court Status): This is the spirit of the endless cross-country trip. It is constantly lost, tired, and in need of directions yet optimistic in its travel games if you play along.

Business District

The spirit of the never ending meeting (Low Court Status): Ever since the dawn of time, people have met to discuss business. This spirit is the manifestation of that feeling of wanting said meeting to end. A flying telephone that chases after you looking for that status update or TPS report pesters those in the Business District and will only move along once they get their sitrep!

Wolves of wall-street (Low Court Status): These crooked wolves go in for the kill of the perfect deal. What do you have that they want and can you get one over on them?

The spirit of slacking off at work (Low Court Status): This spirit takes the form of whatever tempts you to delay your quest.

General - Found anywhere in the City

Johnny Law (High Court Status): The spirit of protecting and serving. He appears in several different forms, including a CHP officer or a noir detective complete with trenchcoat and accent. Johnny comes to find those he feels can stop continuing crime or to ask for help in keeping the precinct buildings clean of oppressive weaver or violence inducing bane spirits. OOC Note: Entry per Calvin

City Animal Spirits

Rat (High Court Status): Rat is a great warrior of Gaia. She is a defender of nests and hoarder of junk.

Raccoon (Low Court Status): She is a finder of short-cuts, secret wisdoms of the city, and anything stinky.

Cockroach (Low Court Status): Cockroach is the keeper of secrets and breaking and entering.

Marine Spirits

Mother Orca & Her Court

Mother Orca is the head of the Marine spirits and is in charge of a great pack of Orca. She is just and strong and recently wrestled the Court from Father Shark. If she can be found and respected, she may grant an audience if you are part of a pack too.

Mother Orca’s Court

STAFF NOTE: Creatures with tentacles are typically of the Wyrm (per the Rokea book).

Father Shark (High Court Status): Sharks are warriors of the deep who will teach you battle prowess underwater if you can survive the lesson. There is currently bad blood between Father Shark and Mother Orca as to who should be in charge of the Marine Court.

Sea turtle (Low Court Status): Sea Turtle is the paragon of respect for the ocean and creator of ocean currents (ocean highways). Sea turtle looks for those who would protect their nests and young as they journey to the ocean.

Otter (Low Court Status): These lovers of joyful play and cunning wish you to play a game with them in exchange for seashore survival.

Octopus (Low Court Status): Can you beat them in a test of wits to gain ocean wisdoms

Coral Reef (High Court Status): A living collection of shells, coral, anemones, and fish) that holds fast to survival and will provide shelter and sustenance to you if you protect it in turn.

Light House (High Court Status): Light House may help you find shelter from a storm (any storm, not just a marine one), but only if you are in a bad storm and ask for help. Being grateful is all this spirit needs (or it may toss you back into the storm).

The Island

The Island is a Gaian sanctuary and is very much Wyld. Do not go swimming under it without back up. This section is all per:Paul Barakat and Robert. They said it is sometimes referred to as George's Island.

Cypha (Court Status - Unknown): Cypha is a water dragon guardian of 'The Island'. She can normally be found by the water as a cute red-head with lots and lots of freckles or as a large dragon with shimmering blue scales that is about the size of a 747 plane. She can get you to and from 'The Island'. OOC Note: Cypha is a Bygone, not a Spirit. She will only be found in the umbra.

Bronwyn (Court Status - Unknown): Bronwyn is a part of the Wyld and comes in the shape of a Raccoon. Apparently she lives under the island but shows up in random places.

Desert Spirits

Desert Court

Whatever sits at the head of the Desert Court is currently unknown.

Desert Court The home of Sunhome & Tefnut's Rest, both of which are Gaian Sanctuaries. Sunhome is in the Desert and consists of Fire and Sunlight spirits. There is a Sunforge here. Tefnut's Rest is an oasis in the Desert too and consists of Peace and Tranquility spirits. Tefnut's rest is a good location to meditate. This section is all per:Paul Barakat and Robert.

Deep Forest spirits

Bear & Her Court

Bear is the totem of the Sept of the Enduring Spirit, which resides in the deep forest. Bear is thusly the leader of the Deep Forest Spirit Court. Bear is fierce in battle and wise in peace time. She is a great healer. Do not use electronics at the caern!

Bear’s Court

The peak of the mountain (Low Court Status): The summit of a good climb (or culmination of any challenge really)gets farther and farther away to test endurance and willpower for a time but provides full rejuvenation when achieved (WP filled). Spirit manifests randomly as pebbles around you or in your pocket and then when you complete the task as a rock pile (hiking caern).

The calm of the glade (Low Court Status): Peaceful and calming. Spirit is simply a feeling with a voice in your mind. Bans fighting and requests meditation. Refills gnosis.

The babble of the streams (Low Court Status): The babbling gets into your mind and drives one to frenzy but keeps you in the brook’s path running or fighting the brook’s bed until you pass out. Restores Rage once frenzy is over.

The breathing of the trees (Low Court Status): This spirit is a slow steady rhythmic breathing that could be confused at first for the wind rustling through the forest leaves...that is until it speaks in slow drawn out sentences. It seeks that you stop corporate logging companies and only take what you need from the forest and replenish what you can. It will then, much like the giving tree, give all it can to you.

Rabbit (Low Court Status): Spirit of reproduction and helps with getting pregnant if you promise to take and dispose of actual rabbit foot charms whenever you see them (even if they are not yours).

Stag (High Court Status): Deer, Elk, Moose etc. nothing can go to waste. Provides Forrest sense if you stop sports hunters.

Boar (Low Court Status): Boar is a spirit of survival and toughness, which it can teach you if you challenge and face it head on in a battle.

Wolf (Low Court Status): Our natural allies. What the Garou respect, they respect. There aren't many local wolves here as this is the top limit of the Mexican Grey Wolf's habitat. Most wolves that are here were brought in by the Garou and are foreign, so take that into account when playing a Wolf spirit in the area.

Lesser Jaggling Winter Wolf - Magnus’ spirit familiar in the form of a black wolf with ice shards for eyes and flaming blue jaws and claws. It has glowing blue runes swirled over its body. It is fiercely protective over Magnus.

xxxxxCurrently: Prone to stalking the Get’s territory looking for a tasty spirit snack and networking with the local spirits.

Porcupine (Low Court Status): Night time spirits that get prickly when we are around and have quite the attitudes. They can help with protection if you actually leave them alone and don’t get pissed off at their quips.

Owl (Low Court Status): Night time spirit associated with the dead. If you wish to learn more about the dead, Owl will need a mouse.

Snake (Low Court Status): Sing snake a good song and/or dance to learn how to resist toxins and stay still without moving.

Coyote (High Court Status): Provider of prophetic dreams and demanded of ritualistic sacrifice. Be careful of what you agree to sacrifice as coyote is wily. There are many Coyote spirit packs in the area.

Mountain Lion (High Court Status): Mountain Lion is fierce and noble. It will either try to eat you or teach you, but either way, be prepared for a hard lesson.

Turkey (Low Court Status): Turkey can fly. You probably don’t know it, but if you tell Turkey something you keep hidden from others, it may teach you how to fly too (for short periods of time in the umbra only).

Lightning bug (Low Court Status): Spirit path guide at night, but it asks for gnosis to help keeps it’s lights going.

Will-o-wisps (Low Court Status): These spirits will ensnare you and guide you towards doom...or maybe that is just a story!

Vulture (Low Court Status): Can teach you how to cleanse an area if you provide it with a part of your past you would rather stay dead. The past may then come back to find you, but if you are strong then you will be better off anyway.

Hummingbird (Low Court Status): Here, there, zipping around. If you can provide it with sugar water, it may stick around long enough to teach having a firm, steady hand when needed and/or speed in combat.

Mouse (Low Court Status): Master of stealth and circumventing security traps. Likes you for removing traps for critters and offering cheese...the more foreign the better.

'Sasquatch (Low Court Status): Sasquatch helps provide a spiritual version of arcane (spirits will not notice you unless you address them and will not remember you once you leave. Effects last one scene per interaction (at the player’s choosing) with Sasquatch. You have to specifically go looking for him and not have technology around when you do.

Bison (Low Court Status): Once a huge aspect of the spirit courts, now just a shadow of its former self. Use everything (like Stag).

Blood Rose (Low Court Status): Offer blood by pricking yourself on its razor sharp thorns to feed it in exchange for being able to manipulate situations easily.

Pack Totem Spirits

Helios: Flames of Gaia Pack Totem: Helios commands the solar winds with boundless vigor and a bright temper. He appears as the Aetherial sun, or as a human warrior clad in bright armor, or a golden eagle, a huge raven or a diamond-bright crocodile.

Black Unicorn: Baldur's Blade Pack Totem: Black Unicorn is a totem of War, but from a time when war was pure and honorable, before even a time when "civilized" battles involved lining up troops on battlefields and taking alternating turns shooting volleys at one another. Cunning has no place with Black Unicorn, nobility and chivalry are everything - especially the defense of the innocent.

Mamoth: Kandula's Hope Pack Totem - With great power comes great responsibility. This giant exists only in the Umbra. Mammoth watched his true children die four thousand years ago and has been dying ever since. Mammoth, even in his last years, teaches his adopted children to exercise their might wisely and conservatively.

Eagle: Legend's Guardians Pack Totem - Eagle is an awesome sight: powerful yet loyal, regal yet vicious. Eagle was not highly regarded until recently, but the recent successes of his children are rapidly making him amongst the most well-known, if not trusted, of Falcon’s brood.

Weasel: The Devil's Own Pack Totem - Lots of folks think Weasel is a Totem of Cunning, and that's just fine with her so it's just fine with us, but the truth is she's a fuckin' force of War, and we know it. Trickster, prankster, motley fool... yeah, that's all true, but she fights like a demon and takes shit from nobody, so who better to represent us to the world? All she asks is that we show no fear, and you know what? Fine. Ain't none to show. – Jes

Cuckoo: The children of Cuckoo are master infiltrators, able to enter caerns, Pentex offices and even Black Spiral Hives without being challenged. Spying and manipulation is prized by Cuckoo.

Firedrake: Firedrake is a guardian of hidden treasures, a manifestation of the fire that destroys and renews, and a patron of destructive battle. He gladly works with packs who swear to leave their foes' houses in ruins, and is particularly sought after by Fenrir.

Fox: Fox is quick, cunning, and sly. He prefers to sneak up on his victims, or better yet, pull them into his confidence, making them feel safe before he strikes. Fox enjoys seeing his Children baffle their enemies. Fox is not seen as honorable by the Garou, and is not a favored Totem.

Sodal Spirits: The Sodal spirits were the patrons of old Anglo-Saxon frankpledges, of brotherhoods of Spartan warriors, and any Garou that accept Kinfolk into their pack. They appear as idealized warriors appropriate to the setting; a Sodal assisting a Glass Walker pack in Rome might appear as a perfect centurion in gleaming gold armour, while a New York Sodal might appear in the guise of a heroic-seeming street gang leader.

Opossum: The only marsupial to thrive in North America, ‘Possum is a wily survivor, able to exist in the wilderness as well as in cities. ‘Possum has learned the value of deception in escaping dangerous situations, but when cornered she is a fierce adversary. Her immunity to snake venom aids ‘Possum’s success in keeping the snake population under control.

Merlin: Although Merlin is far from the largest or most dangerous of birds, Merlin appears in many different ways amongst Falcon's brood. Because he is one of the smallest of hawks, Merlin also tends to be swift, fierce and cunning. He is a champion of the underdog, teaching that size is far from the most important factor and that courage and intelligence are just as important, if not more so.

Typhon: Typhon is a raging storm-spirit, the dragon that spits thunder and lightning. He is one of the more violent aspects of Grandfather Thunder, and his children reflect his tendency toward violence.

Crow: Crow is intelligent and sly. He is the guardian of secrets of the forest and the guardian of ancient wisdom. He seeks trinkets and secrets. The more powerful the secret you provide, the better the secret knowledges and ancient wisdoms he will share.

Inner Sky Spirits (Elementals)

East Wind: Zephyr's Hand Pack Totem - Affiliated with sunrise. Represents Gaia's gift of the Umbra, stepping sideways, and spiritual insight.

South Wind: The south wind, associated with fire and the desert. Represents Gaia's gift of Rage, important to the Warriors of Gaia!

West Wind: Affiliated with rain. Represents the gift of shape-changing.

North Wind: Associated with cold, the winter, the mountains. Represents spirit-gifts and the wisdom of tradition.

Inner Wind: Associated with the earth. Represents the sum of Gaia's blessings, Gaia's power within the Garou, and in some septs the gift of peace.

Native American Spirits

Spirits of the Kumeyaay Tribe (~50,000 Natives)

Tuchaipai: The great Creator god of the Kumeyaay tribe. He was poisoned by a vengeful Frog and died. His soul then became the moon, which can be seen every month wasting away before being reborn.

Yokomatis: Tuchaipai's twin brother and assistant in the creation of humankind; e rules the underworld.

The Two Spirit: Two spirit is a term used to describe a person who embodies the spiritual qualities of both male and female genders within the unique context of Native American culture. In many tribes, two spirits were highly regarded and respected due to their service to elders and youth and knowledge of particular traditional medicine. For many, male two spirits are considered to be a third gender (feminine man) and female two spirits a fourth gender (masculine woman). The term is not interchangeable with gay, lesbian, transgender, or queer, but rather used as an umbrella term that acknowledges gender fluidity and the continuum of identity and expression. OOC: If you wish to use this spirit, please do it justice. This is a strong part of the Native mythology that should be treated with respect!

Spirits of the Cupeno Tribe (Los Coyotes ~25,000 Natives)

Mukat: The creator god of Cupeno mythology. Unlike Native cultures in the rest of North America, the Cupeno did not consider their Creator to be a benevolent spirit or a friend to humankind-- he was capricious and deceitful, made the life of the ancients miserable, and was eventually slain by his own creations after he introduced death to the world.

Tumaiyowit: Mukat's twin brother. He helped his brother to create the world, but after being defeated in a fight with Mukat, Temayawet left to become ruler of the land of the dead.

Spirits of the Luiseno Tribe (~20,000 Natives)

Wiyot: The legendary first chief of humanity and cultural hero of the Luisenos. He died after Frog poisoned him. He later rose from the dead to become the moon, at which point he was sometimes also known as Moyla or Moila (literally "Moon.")

Chingichngish: The main god worshipped by the Luisenos, who rose to prominence after the death of Wiyot. He taught the people morality and the arts of civilization before departing for the stars, where he is still considered to be watching over the Mission Indians today.

Water Babies: Mysterious and dangerous water spirits from Luiseno folklore. They inhabit springs and ponds, and they and their eerie cries are omens of bad luck and death.

Yuyungviwut: A malevolent water spirit. It is thought to belong to both sexes. The spirit often comes at night and drags its victims to a water home to be taken as a spouse. The spirit will treat their spouse well, but you will be forced to eat animals that frequent water, such as frogs and snakes for survival.

Pavawu: Another water spirit. It is believed to inhabit certain springs and ponds of water, which it is thought to object to having people visit. For this reason, many will not put their houses near springs, as they are afraid to incur the anger of this spirit by doing so. It is said sometimes to drag under the water people who bathe near its haunts and to drown them.

Frog/Toad: There is a tale of a hunter walking into a water basin with large water falls. In the basin was a very large Frog or Toad, about the size of a man. He shot at it with his rifle, but it jumped from the rock into a deep water-hole at the foot of the falls. As it struck the water a dense mist rose from it and filled the basin so that it was impossible to see in any direction. The mist did not dissipate and the man was forced to grope his way back out of the basin as best he could.

Takwish: A meteor or shooting star spirit that carries people off and devours them.