#dume'fa

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Cracking the Bone 19/22

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Cracking the Bone 18/22

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Creature Artist Spotlight: @ionomycin

ionomycin is an llustrator currently based in Germany, with a Bachelor's Degree in Media & Arts, specializing in Interactive Media.

Her focus in art is in colours and visual storytelling, making her the ideal candidate to design the patron of Sept of the Trillium Glade: Dume'fa.

Video games, especially smaller studio indie games, are a big passion of hers and is apparent in her body of work.

Such a spirit as Dume'fa is one that is intricate in composition, and this artist was our first choice to do her materialization justice.

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NEW PATRON: Dume'fa

Art Credit: @ionomycin

The First Tongue word for 'Mother of Mothers', 'Mother Wolf' to the Red Talons, 'Grandmother Wolf' to the Furies, and The Summer Wolf in legend, she is the patron of Dead Mountain, and Sept of the Trillium Glade. When Old Father Wolf came for the cubs to leave them in the wilds to fend for themselves, Dume'fa was sticken with grief, and fled both from the sight of Gaia and recorded garou history. She provided the safety and warmth the cubs needed for a garou to know that good things existed in the world worth fighting for. And to that end, she adamantly held open the gate to Summer Home even as the nunnehi closed the wild corners of rest of the region to all else, beckoning her wolves someday return home. Background Cost: 4 Traits: Once each year, the ageless and mourning Dume'fa will bless any non-human-born member of her pack a spiritual vision showing her insights of things in the past, present, and sometimes her belief in the future. These can manifest as dreams, the chosen pack members slipping sideways to come face to face with Dume'fa herself, or in the form of spirit messengers bringing messages to those outside of her reach. After the vision, if any pack member is holding a mushroom offered by dume'fa herself, , they can always communicate with each other. As an added bonus, the pack receives +2 Enigmas and +2 Investigation; Dume'fa’s followers are good at finding information if they dig into the past. Ban: Dume'fa requires that her followers carry her voice for all wolves to hear and perform Rite of the Summer Wolf any time the hottest and driest day of the year over the Trillium Glade coincides with a westward blowing wind.

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Sept of the Trillium Glade (1975) Nestled in the depths of Dead Mountain's forest floor, this caern consists of a mossy log jam atop a creek's source beneath millenia of decomposing trees in the shadow of Dead Mountain. When you climb into the log jam, the decomposing trees shift and trap you in their grip. If the the forest accepts you she opens herself and shows you the way to ground. If she does not, you will remain entangled in the limbs of the fallen trees until you yourself are a part of the forest. Most of this Caern's gauntlet is incredibly thin, and if you bear her boon, she will let you quickly emerge from the ground at any part of her forest.

Level: 5 Type: Summer Country Tribal Structure: Red Talon (50/50 Winter Council/Garou Nation) Patron: Dume'fa Gauntlet: 1

Glyph Notes:'forest' + 'mountain' + 'trilliums' + 'caern'

Dume'fa (1975) The Yoncalla Kalapuya word for 'Mother'. Also known to the Red Talons as Grandmother Wolf, she was charged by Luna to help nurture and raise The First Pack. When Old Father Wolf came for the cubs to leave them in the wilds to fend for themselves, Dume'fa was sticken with grief, and fled both from the sight of Gaia and recorded garou history. She provided the safety and warmth the cubs needed for a garou to know that good things existed in the world worth fighting for. And to that end, she adamantly held open the gate to Summer Home even as the nunnehi closed the wild corners of rest of the region to all else, beckoning her wolves someday return home. Her territory is represented in the physical world by a patch of fungus spanning 6 square miles, making Dume'fa the largest living organism on earth.

Background Cost: 4 Traits: Once each year, the ageless and mourning Dume'fa will bless any non-human-born member of her pack a spiritual vision showing her insights of things in the past, present, and sometimes her belief in the future. These can manifest as dreams, the chosen pack members slipping sideways to come face to face with Dume'fa herself, or in the form of spirit messengers bringing messages to those outside of her reach. After the vision, if any pack member is holding a mushroom offered by dume'fa herself, , they can always communicate with each other. As an added bonus, the pack receives +2 Enigmas and +2 Investigation; the Dume'fa’s followers are good at finding information if they dig into the past. Ban: Dume'fa requires that her followers carry her voice for all wolves to hear and perform Rite of the Summer Wolf any time the hottest and driest day of the year over the Trillium Glade coincides with a westward blowing wind

Glyph Notes: 'patron' + 'pregnant' + 'wolf' + 'forest' + 'mountain' + 'death' + 'Summer Country' "Dume'fa, Patron Spirit of Dead Mountain, and Sept of the Trillium Glade. She is the howling grandmother, standing in between the physical world and Summer Country. Her howling swirls air spirits about her mountainous form, making the very rocks resonate at her peak. Every wolf that dies hears her call, beckoning them home."

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Was working on my third story for this book, and got absolutely hung up on what Dume'fa had to say before the ensuing death. Sometimes you just have to put down something in a section so you can get on with writing other parts.

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Esme "Leaping-Ghost" Journal Entry #33

Anton, Julie, and I have checked in at a motel down on Hwy 712 by Macredie Station. Anton seems to really like the cherry pie at D's Diner, and Julie said she was going to head to the bawn and see if she could hail a Warder from the sept.

Trillium is a fascinating town. The gauntlet separating the real world from the Near Umbra is thinner here, even compared to other rural towns. I love the verdant life that seems to be everywhere in Trillium; Lichens on the sidewalks, Isothecium myosuroides growing on rooftops, and moss even seems to grow on the rubber seals on cars that go unwashed for too long.

I identified some ferns growing out of a stop sign as Polypodium glycyrrhiza, and there are old quercus garryana growing throughout the entire town. I stepped sideways and found that there were wyldlings everywhere around Trillium in the umbra, chewing on the Pattern Web. This must explain why the real world is so verdant here!

I am afraid I have already fallen in love with the woods, and cannot wait to find the Sept soon. I hope to find an Oak savannah in the wilderness. The idea of finding irises and orchids in the middle of the woods seems to much like something out of a fairy tale.

Addendum: I am so giddy with excitement about everything that I forgot to mention that Anton found a lead on a local source for information about Dume'fa. We are planning to meet with an elder of the Kalapuyan tribe tomorrow who has some information on her. I hope this information will be valuable to my research