By Honorah O'Neill (hconeill@cc.owu.edu) for the Breakers tribe.
System: In order to even learn this Rite, the Breaker must ask a boon of Gaia herself. To do this, this Breaker must travel to Pangea and fast for three days and then in a single night at Table Rock, recite all that he has done to save Gaia. At the end of the night, if his plea is accepted, he will find that the ancient marks on Table Rock from the claws of all the Garou that have gone before have left the answer written into the very stone. If it is rejected, he slips into Harano. To perform the Rite, the Breaker must find a patch of stone at least six feet square near the area the Rite is to be performed on. He then carves three circles into the stone with his claws so that they link, forming a rough pyramid. There should be a section in the center of the diagram that is part of all three circles at once. Into one of the three sections that are part of two circles at once, he must carve the glyph for Wyrm, Weaver, and Wyld, one into each of the sections. He then uses his own claws to carve the glyphs for Earth, Air, Fire, Water, the Umbra, and Gaia, into his flesh, letting the blood fall onto the ground. He then rolls Stamina+Rituals Difficulty 11-Past Life as he bonds with the most primal substances of the earth. If he succeeds this roll, he literally bonds with the earth; nothing may move him for a full twenty four hours. He may not defend himself, but due to his bond with the earth itself, he gains a health level for every point of Stamina he possesses, and gains five extra dice for the purpose of soaking damage, including silver. While like this, he rolls Gnosis against a variable difficulty. Changing the course of a small stream would be a two, raising a mountain out of a hill an 8, and sinking an entire continent into an ocean, a twenty. In the twenty four hour period, he may make three rolls in an attempt to change the layout of the land. The time that it takes for the land to reshape itself is 50 years- number of successes if the difficulty started below ten, 100 years-successes if the difficulty started above ten. To increase the speed at which the effect takes place and to accomplish truly great effects, an additional row of linked circles may be added to the pyramid. Each additional area that falls within three circles at once needs to be filled with someone else who knows the Rite. Once going from the single participant, the next level needs four, the next nine, then 16, and so on. Every participant needs to succeed his roll to bond, but once it is made, the difficulty for manipulating the land falls by 1 for every additional participant beyond the first. If the difficulty for the attempt action was originally above ten, it may never fall below difficulty 7 no matter how many participants. All of the successes on all of the particpants Gnosis rolls are added together. Thus with enough people performing this Rite simultaneously, water tables can be raised to flood an entire area in a few minutes, mountains can be raised in a matter of days, an entire city dropped into the sea in a year, or any number of other spectacular effects. The danger in shaping the earth to his will is, that should he botch his roll to bond with the earth, he is caught in a reality backlash and is swallowed up by the earth, never to be seen again.