Ratkin Renown

Litany of Survival

• Preserve the Veil, which ensures your survival
• Shred the Wyrm's tentacles wherever they constrict you
• Sever the Weaver's threads wherever they calcify chaos
• Survive so that you may breed
• Respect strength, exploit weakness
• Conflict breeds strength
• Build, steal and suborn to strengthen your breeding grounds
• Trust your own kind before you trust outsiders
• When someone is responsible for injustice, make sure someone pays

Categories

Infamy I will defend our breeding grounds against all threats, physical and spiritual I shall seek revenge against those who prey upon my kind I must shred the tentacles of the Wyrm wherever they constrict us I must sever the Weaver's webs wherever they calcify chaos

Obligation I shall preserve the Veil, which ensures our survival I will build, steal and suborn to strengthen my breeding grounds I shall nurture, instruct and aid the young I will trust my own kind before I trust outsiders When someone is responsible for injustice, I will make sure someone pays.

Cunning I will survive so that I may breed I must respect strength and exploit weakness I shall grow stronger through conflict I will learn from the mysteries of the spirit world I will revel in the visions the spirits grant me

Rank requirements

Rank	Any Combination
1 (Rakka)	3
2 (Voto)	7
3 (Tava)	15
4 (Teppen)	23
5 (Rrrrr't)	30

Sample awards

Combat and Encounters

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Besting someone (including a spirit) in a riddle contest			3
Ending a threat without serious harm to any Ratkin			5
Surviving an Incapacitating wound			2
Surviving any toxic waste attack	2
Attacking a much more powerful force without aid			-3
Defeating a formidable supernatural threat not of the Wyrm/Weaver	2
Defeating a very powerful supernatural threat not of the Wyrm/Weaver	3
Defeating a minor Wyrm/Weaver threat	2
Defeating an average Wyrm/Weaver threat	3
Defeating a strong Wyrm/Weaver threat	5
Defeating a very powerful Wyrm/Weaver threat	7
...permanently destroying/killing the threat in question	+1
...without a single other Ratkin being hurt	+1
...without being hurt or damaged in the process	+1
...and the threat(s) were armed with silver weapons	+1
Drawing first blood in combat			1
Destroying an enemy stronghold			7
Wounding a powerful foe and prudently retreating			3
Defeating a Garou			3
Being captured by an enemy			-1
Killing a Bone Gnawer	-3
Killing a follower of Rat (not including Bone Gnawers		-1 to -3

Defeating the Wyrm/Weaver

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Revealing with certain proof, that a human or Kinfolk is "of the Wyrm/Weaver"			2
Revealing with certain proof that an area or object is "of the Wyrm/Weaver"			3
Revealing with certain proof that a Ratkin is "of the Wyrm/Weaver"			6

Mystical

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Purifying a Wyrm-tainted object, person or place		2
Summoning an Incarna avatar	2
Traveling to any of the Umbral Realms and surviving	3
Successfully completing a spirit quest in the Umbra			3
Failing to succeed in a spirit quest in the Umbra			-3
Having and properly following a prophetic dream			5
Giving prophetic warning that later comes true			5
Ignoring omens, dreams and the like for no good reason			-3

After following mystical signs and advice...

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Discovering a talen			1
Discovering a useful secret			1
Discovering a fetish			2
Discovering ancient Ratkin lore		3	3
Discovering a Pathstone			4
Discovering an ancient nest that was lost			7

Rites and Gifts

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Refusing to participate in a Rite			-1
Giggling, joking or otherwise not taking a rite seriously			-1 to -5
Learning a new rite			1
Discovering/Creating a new rite			5
Discovering/Creating a new Gift			7

Fetishes

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Creating a talen			1
Using a talen for the good of nest			2
Creating a fetish			5
Sacraficing a fetish for the good of the nest		4
Accidently breaking a talen or fetish			-1 to -5

Nest Activities

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Help guard a nest	1
Staying on your post when on nest watch, even when tempted not to		2	1
Not staying on your post when on watch		-3
Not helping guard a nest even when asked to		-3
Keeping a nest safe through trickery or negotiation	3
Helping to prevent a nest from being overrun by the Wyrm/Weaver	3	4
Not preventing a nest from being overrun by the Wyrm/Weaver	-3	-7
Single-handedly prevented a nest from being taken by the Wyrm/Weaver	5	8
Dying to protect the Nest or clan (posthumous)		7

Ratkin Relations and Society

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Participating in a just challenge		1
Teaching another Ratkin (depends on the depth of study)		1 to 5	3 to 5
For a homid Ratkin, surviving to age 75	5	8	10
For a rodens Ratkin, surviving to age 65	5	8	10
Creating something that helps the Nest or clan		2
Earning the respect of another member of your Breed		5
Exacting Vengence on someone who has greatly harmed the Nest or clan		5
Performing a deed that affects all Ratkin		7
Becoming famous among the Ratkin	7
Getting Even	2
Taking the word of an outsider over one of your own		-3
Hurting other Ratkin through recklessnes or conniving			-5
Getting caught trying to foil Elders			-5

Pack

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Gaining the position of pack leader	3
Becoming the pack runt		3	-3

Litany

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Upholding the Litany		1 to 5	1 to 3
Breaking the Litany		-5 to -8	-2 to -4

Behavior

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Giving good advice		1
Giving bad advice		-1
Any time trickery backfires			-2
Usurping another's role		-2
Ignoring your own aspect in favour of another's			-2
Committing a sophistocated crime		2

Protection and Defense

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Healing a fellow Ratkin (non-pack member) unselfishly		1
Protecting a helpless Ratkin		4
Protecting a rat nest		3
Protecting an important secret from discovery			2

Human and Kinfolk Relations

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Fooling a human	1
Being fooled by a human	-1
Maintaining good relations with nearby Kinfolk		1
Having poor relations with nearby Kinfolk		-2
Spawning a Ratkin		3
Protecting the Veil		4
Harming/rending the Veil		-5
Repairing the Veil		3	1

Cunning

Activity	Infamy	Obligation	Cunning
Performing a monkeywrenching operation			3
Creating a successful diversion			3
Hatching a plot of Machiavellian proportions that succeeds			5
Stealing something of value from within an enemy lair			5
Failing attempts at craftiness			-1
Exposed as a liar			-3
Not protecting a Secret			-3