By Diane Keating Sciacca (wolfinblack@pagan.net) for the Keepers of the Silver Flame
System: The Garou spends a Gnosis point to raise the Flame Gate and attune her motion to it and rolls Gnosis versus a variable difficulty. The Flame Gate burns the Gauntlet and thus the standard roll for entering the Umbra doesn't apply. Awakened fire lowers the difficulty by one. A failure will inflict fire damage equivalent to the size of the fire; characters who Botch are burned and cannot use the Flame Gate to step sideways for the rest of the session. A second person can be brought along for an extra Gnosis point expenditure and increases the difficulty by 1. Note that the Penumbral reflection of an awakened fire will be quite...hot.
| Size of Fire | Difficulty |
| Lighter | 9 |
| Candle | 8 |
| Campfire | 7 |
| Bonfire | 6 |
| House fire | 5 |
| Conflagration | 4 |
Also see: Firedance (level 3), Bhairava (level 4), Wyldfire (level 5), Carnal Bonfire (level 6)