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Chapter Five: Tremere This chapter details the soulless Tremere. Both a Nameless Order and a type of mage with Hollow in place of Gnosis, these Lexicon Reaper liches earn their place among their fellows with cunning Abyssal Ziggurat: an Abyssal anti-Watchtower, where Scelesti and hard-won strength. They consume Legacies that work with may undergo a Mystery Play and become Nasnasi.
Associated souls, perverting them into Tremere Houses. Anne-Marie, the Lion of Night. Originally a self-righteous Accursed: a nickname for Scelesti. Annunaki: a powerful Abyssal god and stillborn universe Arpagus, Voracious Monster.
Arpagus used to be a mage in that produces Abyssal Verges and other, less powerful Abyssal the Tremere Order, but slept the mystical sleep of koimaomai entities. It devours flesh and antinomian sorcery: magic that a mage has deliberately souls as a ravenous, person-shaped abomination, but is still tainted with Abyssal corruption.
Befouled spells are a type of capable of loneliness, in its own way. Korazon, the Final Savior. Autarch: a third-initiation Scelestus who founds or joins an Morana, the Folk Mercenary. Bereft of artistic talent of his because magic causes him suffering.
See also Harrowed Banisher. A type of antinomian sorcery. Subdivided into minor and major custodes. Realm, one of which every Nasnas experiences during his Rabashakim: a first-initiation Scelestus who befouls spells, but spiritual rebirth at an Abyssal Ziggurat, and which corrupts his still possesses Wisdom. Path in turn. Savant: an Enraptured mage whose Fault revolves around an oc- Dweller at the Threshold: a Scelesti term for a Qliphoth.
Not to be confused with a magical savant ability. Seventh Watchtower: a symbol for the unification of all subtle Enraptured mage: a mage who has lost all Wisdom and can Arcana as the true Path of souls, according to the Tremere.
Also no longer control her own magic, completely in thrall to an Final Watchtower; personified as the Seventh Dragon. Obsession or compulsion, called a Fault. Enraptured mages are Scelestus pl. Scelesti : a mage who deliberately uses the Abyss otherwise known as the Rapt. Fault: an uncontrollable Obsession or compulsive behavior Shedu pl. Shedim : a third-initiation Scelestus who founds or an Enraptured mage must pursue to avoid losing control of her joins an Accursed Nameless Order; often conflated with Autarchs magic and generating Tulpa.
Thrax: a Tremere House dedicated to gaining power over souls hollowstone: a variation on a soul stone that also acts as a by defeating foes in violent conflict. Comes in lesser and greater forms. Tremere: a soulless Reaper lich who has replaced his Gnosis Horror: a system term referring to any antagonist who wields with Hollow and believes in the Seventh Watchtower. Most belong Dread Powers. Mages who reach within the Tremere Order, created by stealing and consuming Joining 10 become Qliphoth.
Legacies dealing with souls. Comes in Lesser and Greater forms. Vedmak: a Tremere House of witchkeepers dedicated to spiri- Malefactor: an Enraptured mage whose Fault is a mundane tually inhabiting souls. Nagaraja: a Tremere House dedicated to scourging and weap- Walker: an Enraptured mage who has no Wisdom due to an onizing desires.
Now, they carried him through the halls of their sanctum. They paralyzed his body with magic, and their loud chants overpowered his muffled cries for help. Though they were all cloaked and masked, he recognized a few of their voices. She must have been the one who burst into his room first; she lived only a few doors down from him. The cloaked figures gently placed him on an altar, stood around him in a circle, and waited. Crutchfield has to know by now, he thought to himself.
They broke her ward. She has to be. The circle parted, and a woman walked to the altar. She laid her hands on his face. Alexander could see the excitement in her eyes. A shock went through him, and he could speak. The circle grew tighter. How many times have they told you about Oracles, Alex? He inhaled sharply. A man of great potential, held back by those who claim they love him. His limbs refused to obey. The wom- an motioned for a member of the circle to approach the altar.
One of them, the one he was sure was Mrs. Green, came forward with an old tome in her arms. Outside the building, shots rang out. Some of the circle turned toward the noise. Green chanted words from the book, and the rest of the circle followed suit.
Seer Ministries deal with the same issues. Because they see They pursue their obsessions with fervor, and that makes en- the universe as a rigid hierarchy to be mastered, they are also emies.
After spending so long Sleeping, the idea even if it means leaving their allies to ruin. Rolling over and of letting anyone or anything stand in the way of Truth feels accepting a lesser place would make them no better than untenable, even if the obstacle is a fellow willworker.
Sleepers, in their minds. Some Seers push their luck, trying Pentacle mages know this temptation well. Any one and custom to maneuver their detractors into submission, or see of these factors can make a Pylon just as dangerous to itself as their colleagues as nothing but stepping stones to power. Some it is to Pentacle cabals. Sometimes, enmity political rivalries their counterparts do, but they are no less comes from simpler origins: squabbles over territory, differences driven or dangerous.
Feuds spanning decades arise from a misunderstanding and continue their dark work in exile. Many practice their Art over how an Artifact works. Without intervention, they run the risk Larger, older Consilia are often just as defined by the of hurting not only themselves, but countless others. Their Lex Magica lay out of the major ones, their local power can be just as great.
History proves the futility of underestimating them. The Pentacle Two mages can belong to the same Order, believe in the same ideals, work side by side, and still come to blows. The kinds of professional slights a Pentacle cabal can suffer — or perceive — from another stray into much more egregious territory than those even the most powerful and ruthless Sleepers could devise.
Whatever will you do? He histories. He tweaks their destinies in ways he thinks got along fine with his wife. Their two kids did will help change that terrible day, and leaves it up fine in school. Turns out, fine was so damned boring.
One June evening, rather than heading home, Description he kept driving. Gwydion — formerly known tearing apart her timeline. He favors jeans as Sam Drayton — intended to walk them all. Sowing chaos was fun. It changed things, if they can, and whether their responses things up, for him and for his targets.
Gwydion yield any changes in the future he glimpsed. While a cabal of Guardians of the Veil by in excruciating detail. He saw his own for important engagements. He joined the Guardians.
The Esoteric Tenets never res- comes home for birthdays, anniversaries, and other onated with him, but his experience taught him significant family occasions, and takes great interest magic is dangerous when wielded irresponsibly. He has no blackmail attracts his attention. I know another cabal who went through what Gwydion has made to their histories.
Though the Guardians insisted too sad if something bad happened to him. Leave my name out of it, okay? The Sleepers This is mostly true, except the Hereafter never did anything are safe, but the cabal lands somewhere dangerous: perhaps an Abyssal Verge, or in to Gwydion; their story just intrigued him, and he decided to the belly of an Astral whale. He went several steps too far, changing their histo- ries so their initial meeting never happened. They did, but not before vision that points to the same hazy future one of their original members died.
A blurry picture of Gwydion helping a young woman out of a collapsed Mental Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 3, Resolve 2 building accompanies the article. While rescue workers continue Physical Skills: Athletics 1, Drive 1, Stealth 1, Survival 2 searching for individuals trapped in the rubble, investigators try to Social Skills: Intimidation 1, Persuasion 1, Socialize 2, make sense of eyewitness reports.
This Attainment is Withstood the urban jungle. With so many threads of Time and by temporal sympathy, and assigns its fixed Reach to Fate tangling together, the city is a whole that far ex- sensory range. She excelled as a skilled Rushing Tide. The army described her role using veiled euphemisms, but Jillian was content to call Description Keres is a solidly built white woman in her late 30s. She keeps her bad intel, enemies waiting to ambush the ambushers, half her dark blonde hair cut short; when the ends touch her collar, company dead.
Keres favors functional clothing, preferring could see. The Singing Stone echoed the cadence she chanted durability and a minimum number of pockets over aesthetics. Af- On a job, Keres is all business, and rarely veers from her terward, the government swept the entire affair under the rug.
She plans her moves carefully, studying her target for Jillian never cared about recognition for her heroic actions, days or weeks. Dropping her guard invites fatal mistakes, and but having her achievements so easily erased made her feel like she has little patience for people who fuck off when they should a ghost. Off-duty, however, Keres is quick to laugh.
Her Signature Nim- Rushing Tide. She undertook those assignments alone, hit list. They left her only a cursory note: Off Niradel. Probably be home before you are. Adder ap- She just has to find them. Her Long-Term Nimbus brings increased activity from bloody-minded spirits, especially those born of violence. Adder arranged for her to be off on one of his missions. He knows who sent the Rushing Tide to their deaths, and why, and dreads Keres ever finding out. Molina left a long swath of bodies behind her.
Though she was never captured, and the military erased evidence to the best of its ability, some of the foreign governments and other agencies her battalion attacked have uncovered her identity.
No research, no consult- ing people who actually dealt with it. Elitist, maybe, and definitely cocky, but professional. They could have defeated the nearly-forgotten god Niradel had it been alone, but whoever sent them after Niradel also provided it with reinforcements that tipped the scales. The Sentinel drove getaway cars before he Awakened; he knew how to handle slick roads. Look at the scorch marks. This death is a warning. Left to her own devices, she opts for quick and natural-seeming.
The less of a trail she can leave, the better. A staple among mages of the Adamantine Arrow, this Legacy teaches transcendence through perfecting physical form and mental discipline. They use ascet- First Attainment: Vital Force ic techniques and magic to harmonize body, mind, Prerequisites: Initiation Life 2, Prime 1, Athletics 2 and soul into a whole that is ever more itself, and ever more perfect. The mage gains a heightened awareness of the life force and energy within all living things.
But I coaxed it out of its hiding spot. The Signature when she Awakened. Too many Artifacts to get her hands on. Too Long-Term, temptations grow more insistent, making it hard for many auctions to host.
The Mystagogue thrives on adventure and Mystery, and collects Artifacts. Since willworkers. Please join us for an evening of art, music, and wine under the stars. Unfortunately, might be able to procure a certain item.
Well before negotiations Viridian wants it. She likes when clients surprise her with out until the cabalmate solves her Mystery. Mages who score a coveted invitation understand they may mingle with their rivals and bid against their enemies.
Viridian expects guests to uphold a truce for the evening. She immediately ejects anyone who breaks it, and blacklists them from future auctions. Some attendees send proxies in their stead, or sell their spot to other mages. They drilled for weeks, laid down extra warding spells, took every magical precaution you could imagine. Everyone involved was prematurely smug about success, even though Viridian had been making noise about want- ing the Burden for years.
Day comes. No sign of her. Plan goes off without a hitch. But when they get to its final destination and look inside the locked box it was in, whoops! She must be a secret master of Space or something. Sometimes mun- dane tactics work best: observe patrol patterns, bribe someone on the inside, exploit weaknesses in the chain of custody. Sorcerers — including many of her own Mysterium colleagues — dismiss Sleeper methods to their folly. The same techniques that made her one of the most wanted art thieves serve her well now.
Way I heard it, she asked to borrow an Artifact they had so she could rescue a close friend of hers. Some Warlock who got himself in a heap of trouble. Guardians said no.
Guy bites it, Viridian swears eternal revenge. Some people say it was her son who died. Though Danver was young enough to have been her son, and Viridian often considered him akin to one, she has no children of her own. As potent as treasures from the Time Before are now, the Nighthawks argue they once were much more so. This Legacy works to unearth and circulate as many old Grimoires and Artifacts as possible, to keep the magic alive.
Oblations: carefully studying or excavating sites and objects from the distant past; engaging in a heist, rob- bery, or other clandestine effort when discovery is a real threat; actively using an Artifact or other mystical object for at least an hour; attending or giving a lecture, lesson, or presentation about something ancient or just well-hidden and newly discovered.
Notes: In addition to her Merits, Viridian has access to Arti- Dedicated Magical Tool: A diamond signet ring; the sigils facts, imbued and enhanced items, Grimoires, and other piec- engraved inside the band are nearly worn smooth. With access Arcana: Death 3, Life 4, Matter 5, Prime 3 to her Sanctum or ample time to prepare, the Storyteller can give her more or less anything that makes sense. Other willworkers would be wise not to mistake a more familiar threat for a lesser one, though.
Everyone lies, after all. Clear evidence points to the bastard who supposedly did it. Ever pragmatic, e was not about to turn eir back on the was an infiltrator setting them up to make a winning team. E has been CEOs, panhandlers, journalists, etly feeds critical information to eir Pylon.
Besides, it amus- es em. Between missions, e occasionally feels tempted by the binary, but often defaults to an androgynous happy medium, with brown hair buzzed short, comfortable clothing, and an easygoing smile. As a Signature, this results in strange feelings of confusion, isolation, and disconnection. Secrets Who Spies on the Spies? E has gleaned a tremendous amount of operational knowledge not just about eir own mission, but about other Panopticon agents in the area.
Intrusive Mentor: Eir mentor is Summanus, a Mind master. The Consilium understands how important your work is. Maybe e missed something in eir surveillance: a habit, a turn of phrase, something most people recognize as key to the person e is pretending to be.
E can tell suspicion is rising, which means e might do something drastic soon. I have my own reasons for not wanting them to have this, and I bet you have a few of your own.
Light Weapons 3 CofD, p. Either effect costs 1 Mana Health: 8 and lasts a scene. No order, no reason, just senseless feelings layered ad infinitum.
Well, friends, we all know what happened to the dodo. His hair, immaculately trimmed, has gone white. Jeremiah C. Latimer — or so he calls himself — is a pop — uncannily so, which his followers often attribute to his phi- philosopher, a one-man self-help program whose internet fol- losophy without any evidence, which delights Pangloss.
In lowing and voluminous body of work grow steadily. He seems more like the nebbish professor he used to cloaked in the parlance of modern science. Despite mathematics underlying the universe. His Long-Term mediately spent on his new project. High Speech runes. Paternoster struggles in the West while other Ministries traditional design of Sleeper religion because he secured the ascend.
Pangloss believes his Ministry must adapt, and Latimer is ear of an influential superior, the Pontifex Apollinaris. Their his answer. Instead of unyielding faith, he sells unyielding theory; relationship is a secret for now — Apollinaris has no desire to instead of revealed truth, he sells authoritarian reason.
First, they half-forget who you are, then your wards start vouches for him, and because the project works.
What do we do? The rumor is highly exaggerated; the process Pangloss is in his 50s, pale from a lifetime of lab work and is still experimental. When I told them they sounded like they were reading from the Paternoster playbook, they got pissed and stormed out. Three perps, south- bound on 18th in a black SUV, all three white males, late 20s.
Yeah, another one. One of his committed followers Awakened — and re- jected that Awakening, turning Banisher. Pangloss scrambles to de- fend himself. His rhetoric turns nastier by the day, revolving around the employees and clientele of an indie coffee shop serving as a front for the local Guardian Labyrinth. I say people like that have never seen what an engineer can do to a river. With an The obsession never really started — it was always there.
Somewhere between her legendary meal replacement shakes — food is fuel to her, and nothing flameout from college and her trust-fund-backed Silicon Valley but. The dark circles under her equally dark eyes have settled startup going public, something clicked inside her. The one indulgence she permits herself lessly, much as she tried to code one for herself.
Escape came is the finely tailored suits she wears, not just in the office but only when, on her nth time through college, something much everywhere she goes. For investors, she has a smooth, marking her as touched by the Exarchs. Whether the Prophet cool routine, all steadiness, ideas, and ambition. For her Awakened fellows, she is all-knowing, Exarch wholeheartedly, and never looked back.
One Since then, Phemonoe has risen high. She hired talented needs relationships to manipulate with sufficient finesse. Her Signature Nimbus manifests as a of Awakened insight without any actual user input.
Her Long-Term Nimbus makes to her ad copy, predictive calendar software is going to change events and circumstances repeat with uncanny similarity; the world. Privately, she counts the hours until predestination effect follows so sharply on the heels of cause it almost renders free will moot.
She formed a Pylon with like-minded seems to come first. Following the Signature back to her point of origin an Opacity 4 Mystery leads to the moment of her Awakening, rather than her birth. From license plate cameras to credit card bills to phone records, DeSchedule scrapes it all and feeds it into the master servers, producing eerily accurate profiles of individual users that can almost perfectly predict certain decisions. Reports say the software company will be ready to transfer operations within the week.
Especially Reyes! Phemonoe employs memory scrubs not for security, but to avoid burnout. With mind-numbing routine, the by an order of magnitude, preparing her for Horologian Ministry imposes its regimented fu- Phase 3: simulating a future version of her- ture on society in worship of the Prophet, Exarch self to violate causality without tampering of control through inevitability.
The Industrial and with the timestream itself. If a supernatural effect including Depths and haunts Silicon Valley. They ly but only after her Time dots in turns, allowing experience their whole lives as a single instant, her the opportunity to do something about it. Vice: Distant Dedicated Magical Tool: A hyper-accurate wristwatch, with etched and razor-sharp silver hands. However, into a machine that runs like clockwork.
Some operate as adjuncts or allies to the larger Orders, but just as many conflict with them over territory, Mysteries, recruitment, or ethics. Story Hooks Awakening and joining the Mysterium was close enough. He had more loyalty for the Union than he did his wounds and other things best left closed. Order or even the Consilium as a whole.
Matatag is at the While Matatag studied the Mysteries of the mind, corruption center of this quiet usurpation. Tracking it down brings before they were stealing souls themselves. Out of respect for their friends, they ured out how it works. Together they confronted her cabalmates in their shared sanctum. Ashra, the real Reaper be- hind this, shadows the cabal, hoping they will Baldachin and Ironwood murdered her and robbed the cabal lead her to the apostate. Finally, they faked their own deaths, manipulated the scene to pin the crimes on Matatag, and left the city.
For this crime he did not commit, the Mysterium cast Matatag out and declared him apostate. He fled the city. He wears large glasses and prefers cheap, loose-fitting burned once already and has no intention of going back.
He lives as clothing. He rarely shaves, and his beard is uneven and patchy; a fugitive, hoping one day he can find the mages who betrayed him. He considers himself no longer beholden to the rules and decorum of a magical society he barely respected in the first place.
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