Uspur
Uspur is a hate-spirit.
Background
| “ | a wet, inchoate hiss, like a torch being doused in blood | ” |
Long ago, when life was hard and fields of hard-packed ice stretched from horizon to horizon, a woman gave birth to a baby heir to her clan's leadership. Yet even when the child had been wrapped in furs and taken to his father, the woman didn't stop bleeding. When told, the chief commanded that his wife be left behind. The savage world left no room for weakness. The woman's dying grief, resentment and pain gave birth to a being without flesh. It traveled, stalking the clan, and one night fell upon it, killing one of its members. Each month during the Sickle Moon, it would come again, slowly culling the herd. When that clan finally fell apart, the spirit followed the boy to a new group, to begin anew.
Unfortunately for it, the new clan included a cadre of Iron Master sages. These wizened Uratha constructed a prison for the spirit, divined its name, summoned it, and bound it to the Earth. Every one hundred and one years, they knew, they would have to return to bind it again, and so they passed on the secret rites to heir heirs. Those rites have survived to this night.
Description
A tall, lanky, monstrosity with skin the pinkish-gray color of spoiled ground beef, Uspur's hairless body lopes forward as if always chasing something. Its red eyes occasionally brim over, steaming tears of blood to the corners of its flat face. The spirit's skeletal arms are slightly longer than its body, and it keeps them crossed over its chest (giving it a bat like appearance) or extended before it (as if reaching for its next victim). Its voice is a low, malicious hiss, giving the few words it speaks the quality of a whispered threat.
Storytelling Hints
Uspur is a woman's dying hatred and whispered curses given form. During its time active it evolved into a spirit of spite, malic and murder. These things are all it knows. While Uspur may be willing to make a deal, it will only do so to preserve its existence or come closer to fulfilling its murderous agenda.
Stats
Name: Uspur
Concept: Spirt of Hatred
Rank: 3
Attributes: Power 6, Finesse 5, Resistance 7
Health: 12
Willpower: 13
Essence: 20 (max)
Size: 5
Speed: 21
Defense: 6
Initiative: 12
Influences: Anger ***
Numina: Blast (steaming mixture of boiling blood and freezing wind), Chorus, Claim, Gauntlet Breach, Harrow, Savage Rending (as per the Gift, p. 115, Werewolf: The Forsaken)
Ban: Those who wear the accoutrements of the honored dead, such as a death mask, significantly weaken Uspur. The item must be something that can be worn and constructed to honor the dead. Something taken from the dead doesn't count (so, for example, a death mask works, but a suit taken from a corpse does not). Uspur's Numina automatically fail against a character in such raiment, and its Defense falls to one for the purposes of attacks made by that specific character.
References
- WTF: Signs of the Moon, p. 200-201
