Taint (WOD)

Rage card depicting Wyrm taint.

A taint is a symptom of something or someone which acquired too much of the Weaver, Wyld, or Wyrm. It can be felt with the appropriate Gift: Sense Weaver, Sense Wyld, Sense Wyrm. or Sense Imbalance. The rarest of all kind of taint, the Touch of Gaia, is easily sensed by Garou. It can be felt after a successful spirit quest or at greater Caerns.

Taints also have effects in the Chi consumed by vampires or Kuei-Jin. The Wyld Taint of Changelings and Garou can infect them with madness. Wyrm Taint is impossible to digest, save by the Scorpion Eaters.

A Garou can be cleansed of taint by going to Erebus and submerging himself (willingly, accidentally, or involuntarily) into one of the molten silver rivers.

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