Idigam

The Exiles

At the close of the 1960s, several spirit entities of great power and almost incomprehensible form manifested throughout the world. These spirits struck out at the strongest loci, overwhelming the local spirit guardians and squatters. Werewolves who opposed these monstrous entities did not recognize them at first, but soon the name from the past returned to them — idigam. Spirits that arose before Pangaea had fully formed, spirits that Father Wolf had banished to prisons far beyond where any werewolf could reach.

No werewolf knows exactly how the idigam were released, or how they found their way back through the deeps to Earth. None can even be sure how many had
escaped or where all the survivors went. All that mattered at the time was opposing them. Each idigam was powerful enough to challenge several packs at once, though, and over the next decade, the idigam were the greatest menace
the Uratha faced.

The exile of the idigam predated the rise of the Gauntlet, and their primary goal upon return was to weaken the Gauntlet and enable their own travel back and forth to the spirit world. Beyond that, their motives were incomprehensible. Many idigam possessed humans and drove them to acts of bizarre organic creation, twisting and mutilating living flesh into impossible shapes. Most of them kidnapped other humans, broke down their bodies and used ritual magic to reassemble them into forms that simply did not function properly in the physical world.

The werewolves were able to capture and destroy many of the idigam, but they could not capture them all. Idigam still infest parts of the physical world, despite the fact that no new exiles seem to have appeared on Earth for more than thirty years. They are potent entities — no two alike, but each a match for several packs.

There are some tales of the Bloody '69, the year when three exiles arrived from deep in the Shadow and turned Great Britain into a battleground.

• Bloody 69
• The Harvester; Cultivator of the Slain
• The Breathstealer; Slithergadee from the Sea
• The Soul-Eater; Devourer of the Self

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