Category
Once a swarm of rats has been summoned, or if you encounter them in the wild, you can control them through sheer force of will. You cannot motivate them to assault anything in their path (that requires the Rite of the Swarm), but you can direct their movements. This Gift can also be used to summon up a few extra rats or Rat-spirits for the duration of one scene; oddly enough, it's taught by a Rat-spirit.
System
The size of the swarm you can control depends on a Manipulation + Animal Ken roll. Spending a point of Gnosis and a point of Willpower isn't a big price to ask. The effects last for a number of hours equal to the rodens Ratkin's Willpower.
1 - up to 13 rats (normal rats)
2 - up to 20 rats
3 - up to 30 rats (large rats)
4 - up to 40 rats
5 - up to 50 rats (big-ass rats)
If the rodens can gather all of these rats into one place before the Rite of the Swarm is invoked, the difficulty for the ritualist's final roll is decreased by 2. You can't summon up allies in addition to those summoned by the Rite of the Swarm, but if you like, you can attract two extra rats for each success on your initial roll.
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