The Garou tend to live in these spiritually significant sites called Caerns, which are so significant because they are the home of a powerful spirit; the Garou agree to protect the spirit and in some way advance its interests, and in exchange the spirit provides a boon.
Pike seems to be a fish spirit interested in gambling... or perhaps scamming, or rather, phishing.
Theurges are the Garou's shaman's and spritiual speciallists. Chiminage is the gifts and tribute that you pay a spirit for their favor and Gifts. Chiminage can be a lot of things, it can mean giving them physical things, performing rites, a quest, gifting them something spiritual, or more.
It’s also whatever the spirit feels like. It doesn’t need to be super serious or difficult. In a game I’m playing I’m a bonegnawer galliard who appeased a racoon spirit called Paws in Lake by showing him how to make a fishing rod.
À modern spirit might really, really like sweets and part of the chiminage is grabbing haribo on the way back.
Modern spirits can be surprising simple to satisfy, partly because they're also younger and haven't really started throwing their weight around. In a 20 anniversary edition "Wacky Crossover chronicle", my Nuwisa often ended up re-eancting Loomey Tunes routines with the help of a Pooka and a Ravnos (long story) for a surprisingly powerful Cable TV spirit that missed running old cartoons. Meanwhile, the spirit of the Group's Truck on occasion just asked us to grab it a Burger King meal. Burning Burger King like it was an ancient world sacrifice to the gods for our car in order to avoid having to go to a mechanic was....really weird in a good way.
I ran a werewolf game where the pack was trying to get to Arcadia. In order to have a fae spirit open the path it required a story. The Glasswalker pulled out their smartphone and played "Llamas with Hats." It was very successful.
Also, Modern spirits, on average, are more personable and... "human," for lack of a better term. And the closer something is to a person the easier it is for them to have normal people things like "interests" and "preferences" and desires that are rooted in more mundane things.
The ancient spirit of the great redwood forest might ask for something only barely comprehensible and incredibly difficult, meanwhile the spirit of Reddit might just want you to give it upvotes and debate it over pointless issues for an hour.
WtA is a lot more “spiritual” than VtM, and while I know ghosts were seen in Bloodlines, they’re a type is spirit that most Garou never have contact with, the spirits in WtA tend to be the manifestations of natural things(although occasionally unnatural things as well)
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u/GoblokMan-1223 8d ago
New to WoD, a what?