The Black Spiral Dancers are a tribe of werewolves (or Garou) who have become corrupted by the Wyrm. They draw their name from their own traditions of the Wyrm, and the transfiguring "Rite of Passage" that a Garou must undertake to become a Black Spiral Dancer. They are, typically, physically monstrous, incurably insane, and viciously sadistic.

Black Spiral Dancers gather into small groups called Hives (the equivalent of septs) and groups of Hives make their homes in Pits, places where the spirit world is strong and the Wyrm is in control. They are among the Wyrm's most enthusiastic and aggressive agents in the physical world, using tactics of ecological terrorism, spiritual warfare, and outright violence. Their weak point, however, is their own degree of corruption. Many Black Spiral Dancers are self-destructively insane, while others are so unstable that they are put down by their hivemates. Similarly, the Black Spiral Dancers (having no rules relating to procreation) have a disproportionately large metis population, and have their bodies further riddled wth deformities caused by the taint of the Wyrm.

Black Spiral Dancers play the same role in Werewolf: the Apocalypse, as Sabbat in Vampire: the Masquerade

The Dark Litany

The Black Spiral Dancers have a general code of conduct. A corruption of the code maintained by the Garou Nation, its enforcement is somewhat lax and fairly arbitrary, but in principle it represents the philosophy of the Black Spiral.

• Serve the Wyrm in all its forms.
• Beware the territory of another.
• Slay those who will not join you.
• Respect all those who serve the Wyrm.
• The Veil shall not be lifted.
• Do not suffer thy people to tend to thy sickness.
• The Leader may be challenged at any time in peace.
• The Leader shall not be challenged in time of war.
• Ye shall take no action that causes a Pit to be violated.