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Book of the Wyrm is a sourcebook to Werewolf: The Apocalypse First Edition. It examines the Wyrm and it was the first of its kind, a book that was revisited several times in future editions.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf 1993-94 catalog:

The Wyrm's minions are spread across many worlds, both Realm and Umbra. Their faces and tactics are legion. This sourcebook provides information about many of the Wyrm's allies, from Banes to Black Spiral Dancers. For use in any Werewolf Chronicle. Detailed statistics for a plethora of Wyrm monsters.

From the Back Cover:

The Rites of Corruption
From the foul realm of Malfeas, hidden in the Deep Umbra, the most powerful servitors of the Wyrm hatch their plots for world destruction. The heralds of rot and decay spread into the pure realms to plunder and corrupt. Gaia dies and the Wyrm laughs.
A Storm of Destruction
The Balance has been shattered. The Wyrm wraps its coils about the world and squeezes. Before such a horror only the Garou stand uncorrupted – but for how long? The end is nigh.
Book of the Wyrm includes:

Contents[]

Legends of the Garou: The Balefires of Destruction[]

This is a tale rarely told by the Garou, but one they must tell lest they fall to the Wyrm's corruption as did the White Howlers, now the hideous Black Spiral Dancers.

Introduction[]

Chapter One: Black Spiral Dancers[]

This chapter details the "lost tribe" of the Garou: its members' society, their bizarre rites, their own Litany and their madness.

  • History of the Black Spiral Dancers
  • Black Spiral Society
  • Renown and Rank among the Black Spirals
    • Power
    • Cunning
    • Infamy
  • The Black Spiral Litany
  • Black Spiral Kinfolk
  • The Pentex Connection
  • The Sabbat Connection
  • Dancers All Over the World

Chapter Two: Pentex Incorporated[]

Pentex is a multinational corporation whose economic and political power is truly frightening, for its source is the Wyrm. This chapter details Pentex's divisions and special projects, its perverse Board of Directors, its many subsidiaries and its tactics for world corruption.

  • The History of Pentex
  • The Goals of the Company
  • The Board of Directors
  • Pentex Special Divisions
    • Acquisitions Division (AD)
    • Public Relations Division (PRD)
    • Project Coordination Division (PCD)
    • Information Collection System (ICS)
    • Special Projects Division (SPD)
  • The Standard Acquisition Operation
  • Wyrm Taints and Wyrm Infestations
  • Pentex Worldwide

Chapter Three: Malfeas, the Wyrm's Realm[]

In the Deep Umbra there is a dark realm of putrid corruption, Malfeas. It is the base of operations for many of the Wyrm's most powerful minions. From here, plots are hatched to invade Gaia's realm and destroy all resistance to the Wyrm's conquest.

  • The Tale of Ekes Sara
  • The Duchies of Malfeas
  • The Black Spiral Labyrinth
  • Rulers of Malfeas

Chapter Four: The Wyrm[]

The very beast itself. The Wyrm is all-encompassing, an evil that is nearly unimaginable in its true form. It is seen by others as many different things, from a serpent circling the world to a many-headed hydra of destruction and malicious passion.

  • Cosmology
  • Faces of the Wyrm
  • Beliefs About the Wyrm

Chapter Five: The Wyrm's Brood[]

Herein are detailed the gifts and totems of the Black Spiral Dancers, the fomori agents of Pentex, the Wyrm monsters crawling the earth, the things traveling the Umbra and many fetishes of corruption. Included are the rules necessary for using these dread things in your game.

  • Black Spiral Dancers: Totems, Gifts and the Abyss Leapers
    • Tribal Gifts
      • Bane Protector - Level One
      • Sense Wyrm - Level One
      • Shroud - Level One
      • Howl of the Banshee - Level Two
      • Ears of the Bat - Level Two
      • Wyrm Hide - Level Two
      • Unseelie Faerie Kin - Level Three
      • Patagia - Level Three
      • Foaming Fury - Level Three
      • Crawling Poison - Level Four
      • Doppleganger - Level Four
      • Balefire - Level Five
      • Totem-form - Level Five
    • Gifts by Auspice
      • Ragabash - Touch of the Eel - Level Three
      • Theurge - Blood Omen - Level Two
      • Philodox - Smell Fear - Level One
      • Philodox - A Thousand Voices - Level Two
      • Galliard - Allies Below - Level Three
      • Ahroun - Horns of the Impaler - Level Two
      • Ahroun - Rend Reality - Level Five
  • Fomori: Powers, Types and Pentex First Team Number 28
    • Fomori Powers
      • Body-barbs
      • Exoskeleton
      • Extra Limbs
      • Gaseous Form
      • Hide of the Wyrm
      • Infectious Touch
      • Lashing Tail
      • Mega-Strength
      • Mouth of the Wyrm
      • Plasmic Form
      • Roar of the Wyrm
      • Stomach Pumper
      • Umbral Passage
      • Webbing
  • Fetishes: Black Spiral Fetishes, Talens and Dangerous Toys
    • Fetishes
      • Bane Lantern - Level 2, Gnosis 5
      • Banesword - Level 6, Gnosis 7
      • Brush of the Ancients (Omen Brush) - Level 1, Gnosis 8
      • Churjuroc's Tusk - Level 5, Gnosis 9
      • Deathrattler - Level 3, Gnosis 6
      • Delurium Mask - Level 2, Gnosis 7
      • Devilwhip - Level 2, Gnosis 6
      • Magic Spewer - Level 4, Gnosis 5
      • Soul Ruby - Level 5, Gnosis 7
      • Spirit Net - Level 3, Gnosis 5
      • Tambertail's Heart - Level 2, Gnosis 7
      • Umbraphone - Level 1, Gnosis 3
      • Umbrascope - Level 2, Gnosis 4
      • Warshirt of the Wyrm - Level 3, Gnosis 6
      • Wyrm Fang Dagger - Level 3, Gnosis 6
      • Wyrm-Gut Bonds - Level 2, Gnosis 5
      • Clothing by Mister Lucian
    • Talens
      • Bean Bane - Gnosis 7
      • Dragon's Ichor - Gnosis 5
      • Goblin Ale - Gnosis 4
      • Storm in a Bottle - Gnosis 6
      • Voidstone - Gnosis 5
      • Wyrm-wood - Gnosis 3
    • Dangerous Toys
      • Mister Mystic/Sister Mystic - Level 1, Gnosis 5
      • Doctor Chuckles Surgery Kit - Level 1, Gnosis 10
      • New Glow-In-The-Dark Gooshy Gooze - Stats
      • Action Bill Special Police Badge - Level 1, Gnosis 6

Background Information[]

Memorable Quotes[]

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Characters[]

Terminology[]

Abhorra, Abyss Leapers (BSD Pack), Action Bill's Advanced Training, Action Bill's Danger Squad (Show), Action Bill Weapons Set (Toy), Anchorhead, Angu, Baba Yaga, Balefire, Bane, Beast-of-War (GoF: Midgard Serpent), Black Spiral Dancers, Black Spiral Labyrinth: Dance of Insight, Dance of Rage, Dance of Endurance, Dance of Cunning, Dance of Combat, Dance of Corruption, Dance of Loyalty, Dance of Paradox, Dance of Deceit; Black Spiral Litany, Blights, Blood Bound, Blood Doll, Board of Directors, Breeder Bane, BSD Renown: Power, Cunning, Infamy; Caledonia, Calumns, Camarilla, Castle Cthonus, Celestine, Central Duchy, Circle of Red (Mages), Committee of Malfeas, Dance of the Black Spiral (Rite of Passage), Dank Well Sept, Deep Umbra, Defiler Wyrm, Derangements, Domain, Duchy, Duchy of Logic, Eater-of-Souls (That Which Eats Its Own Tail), Epiph, Epiph of Courage, Epiph of Logic, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (Caern), Far Calumns, First Team, Foebok, Fomor/Fomori, Fount of Dark Possibilities, Furmas, Gaki, Gauntlet, Giovanni, Gree, Green Knights, Hellholes, Hive, Hoga, H'rugg, Infested object (Bane-Tainted), Karnala, Kinfolk, Leeches, Lethargg, Light of Spirit's Wings (Fetish), Los Angeles, Lunatics, Mages, Malfeas, Mashsstrac, Mexico City, MIR (Soviet Space Station: Caern), Moon Bridge, Near Umbra, Necromachy (Shade Spider, Level 3 Thaum. Ritual), New York City, Nexus Crawler, Omega Plan, Pattern Web, Pentex, Pentex First Team Number 28, Picts, Pit, Premium Oil, Pseulak, Psychomachia (Bane), Realm: Arcadia, Dream, Inferno, Irrationality Realm, Nightmare Realm, Rationality Realm; Rite of Transmogrification (BSD, Level Four), Sabbat, Scotland, Siren Cosmetics, Skrag (Bane), Slaughterhouse Video, Step Sideways, Sykora, Tainter (Machine), Tellurian, The Temple of Our Father the Destroyer (Caern), Triat, Umbra, Unseelie, Urge Wyrm, Vampire, Voodoo Pigs (Sentient Skull Pigs), Vorus, Wakshaa, Weaver (Aunt Spider), The Whippoorwill, White Howlers, W.O.L.F (Evil Faction: Action Bill), Wolf-Commander (Character on the Action Bill Show), Wyld (Uncle Change), Wyrm (Hydra), Wyrm Caerns, Wyrmhole, Wyrm-infested, Wyrm-tainted, X-Frenzy #1 (Comic Book),

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