Book of the Weaver is the sourcebook about the Weaver and its servants for Werewolf: The Apocalypse Revised Edition. The book features new details surrounding the Weaver's many servants, and introduces Drones: the Weaver's counterparts to the fomori.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- Grandmother Spider's Insanity
- She was born to make order of chaos, to weave patterns where there were none. She was entrusted with the duty of keeping the Names of things, and charged to keep the world whole. But she went mad. She caught the Wyrm in her web, and in her madness. Now Progress is blind, and Science is mad. The Garou must sever her strands before she chokes the life from Gaia – but will they even know how to fight her?
- No Thread Shall Escape!
- Her power is greater than that of the Wyld or even the Wyrm. Her touch is on the heart of every human ever born. She is everywhere. And now her secrets are laid bare in Book of the Weaver. Court her favor and use her gifts of technology and order against the Wyrm. Learn to slip between her webs and keep the wild places free. Or, if you dare, take up arms against her and her countless servants. But don't try to ignore her – or you'll wind up caught like the Wyrm itself.
- Book of the Weaver includes:
- The history and cosmology of the most powerful of the Triat
- Developmental Neogenetics Amalgamated, the research agency dedicated to "curing" the Garou, detailed in full
- Spirit servants, WeaverTech, the Weaver's version of fomori, Storytelling notes, and more
Contents[]
Legends of the Garou: The Strand-Rider's Tale[]
Introduction: The Snarled Skein[]
Chapter One: Cosmology[]
Chapter Two: WeaverTech[]
- New Background: Device
- Hardware
- Animus Energy Alternative Adapter - Level 3, Gnosis 6
- Armalite-Steyr AS-115 Assault Rifle - Device 1
- Bionics/Cybernetics - Variable Tank, Gnosis (2 + Rank); alternately, Device 1-5
- Alloyed Endoskeleton
- Lexical Database
- Myomer Musculature
- Ocular Recognition/Targeting System
- Pheromonal Secretors
- Reflex Filaments
- Subliminal Harmonizer
- Synaptic Accelerators
- Syntheskin
- Bottomless Magazines - Talen, Gnosis 3
- Breakneck Overthruster - Level 2, Gnosis 4
- Cerebral Conditioning Systems - Device 4
- Cornerstones - Level 1, Gnosis 6
- DERVISH (DExterous Remote Vehicle, Ishapore Series) - Device 3
- Easy Money - Talen, Gnosis 4
- Gyrojet Pistol - Device 2
- Metamorphosis Inhibitors - Level 3, Gnosis 4; alternately, Device 3
- Myrmidon Exoskeleton - Device 4
- Noetic Navigation Interface - Device 1
- Raiden Unit - Level 3, Gnosis 7; alternately, Device 4
- Semiorganic Storage Elements - Device 1-5
- ShadowSim Projector - Level 4, Gnosis 7
- Toroidal Electromagetic Repulsor - Device 2
- Vetruvian Harness - Level 2, Gnosis 3
- Software
- Akagi Security Screen - Level 2, Gnosis 6; alternately, Device 2
- Conundrum - Level 3, Gnosis 7; alternately, Device 4
- DoubleFeint - Level 2, Gnosis 6; alternately, Device 3
- genEsys - Level 5, Gnosis 8
- MIDAS.EXE - Level 1, Gnosis 4
- OcClude - Level 3, Gnosis 6
- Vulcan AEI 2.0 - Level 2, Gnosis 5
- Wetware
- The Dionysian Strain - Level 5, Gnosis 8
- Eternity - Device 2
- Lucid - Device 1
- Medusa - Talon, Gnosis 8
- Plethora - Level 3, Gnosis 5
- RDX - Level 3, Gnosis 5
- ReGen 7 - Level 4, Gnosis 6
- Reunion - Talen, Gnosis 6
- "Slipstream" - Talen, Gnosis 5
- Triton - Device 2
- Exhibit 338: The Antichrist Serum - Level 6, Gnosis 10
Chapter Three: Grandmother Spider's Brood[]
- Spirit Servitors
- Geomids
- Attack Geomids - Stats
- Information Geomids - Stats
- Structural Geomids - Stats
- Elementals
- Glass Elementals - Stats
- Metal Elementals - Stats
- Plastic Elementals - Stats
- Electricity Elementals - Stats
- Atomic Spirits - Stats
- Spider-Spirits
- Backdoor-Spiders - Stats
- Channel-Spiders ('Mind-Eaters') - Stats
- Chaos-Monitors - Stats
- Guardian-Spiders - Stats
- Mind-Spiders - Stats
- Nano-Spiders - Stats
- Net-Spiders - Stats
- "Once-Spiders" (Kilakac'n) - Stats
- Orb-Weavers - Stats
- Pattern-Spiders - Stats
- Strand-Spiders - Stats
- Rail-Spiders (Rider-Spiders) - Stats
- Trade-Spiders (Mula'Kranté) - Stats
- Weaver-Children (Weaver-Spiders) - Stats
- Wolf-Spiders - Stats
- Automata
- Clusteres (Amalgam-Spirits) - Stats
- Genius Loci (Ambition-Spirits) - Stats
- Gödels (Paradox-Spirits) - Stats
- Hunter-Killers (Weapon-Spirits) - Stats
- Progs (Data-Spirits) - Stats
- Talkers (Tiring-Spirits) - Stats
- Virii (Virus-Spirits) - Stats
- AIs (Artifical Intelligences) - Stats
- The Machine
- Geomids
- A Tangled Web: The Children of Ananasa
- Drones
- Drone Powers
- Augmented Shell
- Computer Link
- Cybersenses
- Electrical Field
- Gauntlet Passage
- Invulnerability
- Magnetokinesis
- Matter Weave
- Memory Caress
- Regeneration
- Spirit Static
- Stasis Touch
- Triatic Sense
- Voice of Reason
- Drone Powers
- The Digital Empire: Shinzui Industries
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse and the Technocracy
- Administrator - Stats
- Navigator - Stats
- Propagandist - Stats
- Soldier - Stats
- Technician - Stats
- Renegade - Stats
- DNA: Developmental Neogenetics Amalgamated
- Lexicon
- Sample DNA Field Agent - Stats
Chapter Four: Talespinning[]
Appendix: New Charms[]
- Absorb Fetish
- Assess Character
- Call for Aid
- Craft Technology
- Disable
- Divide and Conquer
- Drain Gnosis
- Flee
- Group Fusion
- Hide
- Informational Link
- Insight
- Iron Will
- Nullify Dream
- Quit Reality
- Scale
Background Information[]
Book of the Weaver is the second of the sourcebook series about the Triat. It was preceded by Book of the Wyrm Second Edition and followed by Book of the Wyld.
Ads at the back of the book include: Vampire Clan Novels (Toreador: Feb. 1999, Tzimisce: Apr. 99, Gangrel: Jun. 99) and Year of the Reckoning (The Fools Luck: Feb. 99, The Cainite Heresy: Mar. 99, The Time of Thin Blood: Jul. 99, Rage Across the Heavens: Aug. 99, Technocracy Players Guide: Aug. 99, The Ends of Empire: Oct. 99 and Hunter: The Reckoning: Nov. 99).
The 1999 Jan-Jun Catalog has a different text entry for the book:
Progress, Technology and Permanence
She is the mistress of technology, the queen of science. Her servants skitter across the Pattern Web of the entire world, fortifying the walls between spirit and flesh. Hers are the powers of invention and stasis alike; hers is the force of conformity and order. And she is utterly, completely and irrevocably out of her mind.
Spinning Out of Control!
Inside are the secrets of the most powerful member of the Trait, one of the greatest forces the Garou acknowledge. Learn her secrets, be they the benevolent gifts taken by the Glass Walkers or the cold, soulless law imposed on the hearts of cities. Find out what she spins in her madness, or uncover the story behind her unwitting pawns such as Developmental Neogenetics Amalgamated. Even go over to her side and embrace this changes she works on you - if you dare.
Memorable Quotes[]
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Characters[]
- Junius Fitzroy Datatree - Glass Walker, Datatree, Inc.
- Elena - Ananasi
- Antonine Teardrop
- Simon White Crane
- Voice-of-Stone
- Sings-With-Spirits - Lupus Uktena Theurge
- Ruffles - Corvid Corax
- Shantayne Piroqui - Ananasi of the Skein-Spiders
- Toby Shining Coat - Bagheera Tekhmet
- Dead Man Steve - Corax
- Oleyah Voice-of-Mourning - Gurahl River Keeper Kojubat
- Blackfoot
- Red Sky Waiting - Mokolé Noonday Sun
- Astika Bloody Dart - Nagah Ahi Lamsa
- Kokopelli Steals-the-Wind - Nuwisha
- Cat-Chewer - Ratkin Rodens Shadow Seer
- Seven-Lives - Brightwater Rokea
- Teeth-of-Titanium
- Xaos (David) - Hacker
- RAMses - Hacker
- "Bassho" - Taiwanese hacker, handle
- Saruman - 14-year-old whiz-kid, created "Minas Tirith," similar to the Akagi Security Screen
- Fergus McClude - Fianna Theurge, created OcClude
- Thrassus Thrice-Damned, Smallest-Talon - Talon of the Wyrm
- Weaverfoe - Red Talon Philodox
- William "Kneels-to-None" - Nero, Judge of Doom, Shadow Lord
- Norna Weaver
- Sunil Sands-Mean-Nothing - Stargazer Ouroboroan
- Octavia
- Hatar Hates-His-Brothers - First Ananasi Hatar
- Queen Ananasa
- Number Two
- Mike Ellison - Human
- Corby - Drone
- Hiroaki Kazuko Yamashita - Chief Executive Officer of Shinzui Industries
- Master Sergeant Siemaszko - Void Engineer, Technocratic Mage
- Dr. Karen Pendergrast - DNA, Human, Division RD
- Mr. Sloat - Human
- Mrs. Sloat - Human
- Rebecca Sloat - Garou, Adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Sloat, imprisoned by DNA
- Dr. Mitchell Howak - DNA's founder, Human, disappeared
- Alan Kenchlow - FBI SAD, Human
- Dr. Ruben Sendlar - DNA Executive Director, Human, MF
- Jim Mather - DNA, Human
- Nicole Preston - Kinfolk, captured by DNA
- Alberta Croft - DNA, Human, MF
- Stacey Allen - DNA, Human, MF
- Mark Allen - Stacey's Son, Human
- Sean Coulter - DNA, Human, Division RD
- Dr. Narain Sengupta - DNA, Human, Division RD
- Dr. Judith Grant - DNA, Human, Division RD
- Dr. Jonathan Moses - DNA, Human, Division CBT
- Dr. Myra Gibson-Yearding - DNA, Kinfolk, Division CBT
- Dr. Young Sook Ban - DNA, Human, Division CBT
- Scott Campbell - DNA, Human, Division SI
- Thomas Dasher - DNA, Human, Division SI
- Lorrie Custodes - DNA, Human, Division SI
Terminology[]
Allele, Ananasi, Carrier, Chromosome, Clarification, Consanguinity, Cyber Dogs, CyberRealm, defixio luporum hominumque (The Dionysian Strain), Developmental Neogenetics Amalgamated (Management and Finance, Division RD, Division CBT, Division SI), Device, Digital Web, DNA, Dominant allele, Epistasis, Drone, Epistasis, Gene, Genetics, Genome, Genotype, Glass Walkers, GLS, Heterozygous, Homozygous, LAE-23 (Lucid), The Machine, Men in Black, Methyldelerian, Mundane Tech, Mutation, Naming, New World Order, Onesong, OrgoTech Laboratories, The Patriarch, Pattern Web, Pentex, Pentex ICS, Phenotype, pitantjatjarakurnba (Slipstream), Pleiotropy, Progenitors, Project Reaper, Recessive allele, Scar, The Science Incarna, Shinzui Industries, Special Projects Division, Syndicate, Technocracy, Technocrats, Technomagick, Technomancers, Three Seeds (Dogma, Science and Technology), Void Engineers, Weaver, WeaverTech, Web of Deceit,
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