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This rite brings a Garou from another tribe into the Uktena fold. A
candidate for the Rite of Adoption must first undergo a period of testing
by a council of Uktena elders from the sept she wishes to join. Similar
in nature to the rigors of the Rite of Passage, these tests allow the council
to assess the sincerity of her decision and her commitment to her new
tribe. The actual rite consists of a ceremony in which the petitioner
renounces her old tribe and casts aside any outward symbols of her previous
membership, including tribe-specific fetishes and talens. In the presence 
of all participants in the Rite of Adoption, the candidate changes into
Crinos form, symbolic of her First Change. The witnesses then proclaim her
a "new Uktena", choose a name for her and welcome her into the tribe as
a cub.

System: A Garou who undergoes this rite begins again as Rank One, with
appropriate adjustments in Renown. Although she may retain any Gifts she
has learned previous to changing tribes, she must refrain from using and
Gifts specific to her old tribe until she has learned an equivalent number
of Uktena Gifts. Until she attains Rank Two, her actions are carefully
monitored by her new tribemates, and any lapses meet with swift and
harsh punishment. Too many regressions to the ways of her old tribe may
result in banishing her from the tribe, thus making her an outcast (or
Ronin).
