The Galestalkers know that only the strong can serve Gaia. But the strength She needs is not the fury of the berserker or the prowess of the soldier. To serve Gaia, the Garou must learn the strength to endure. They must learn humility and endurance. They must learn the limits of flesh, and surpass those limits. This is what the Galestalkers teach. They have endured death and torment, the claws of the Wyrm and the cruelty of humanity. And they endure.
Black Tarn warned you about the Galestalkers and their brutal Patron Spirit, whose name she would never say, calling him only Ice Wind, or the Cruel One. A member of the Mohawk Nation, she had suffered terribly in her childhood, but she said that the Galestalkers she knew—Indigenous or otherwise—had been consumed by their grief, turned into living weapons incapable of mercy. In her lucid days, Black Tarn always cherished mercy for the weak as the highest virtue, and the Cruel One terrified her. To join the Galestalkers is to face North Wind and let him tear away everything weak, everything that hesitates, leaving only a dagger of ice aimed at Gaia's enemies.
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