Mage the awakening
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Oh and there are those mages who are twisted by the Abyss to be terrifying nightmare-people. They’ve got their own cadre of magic users called the Seers of the Throne who want their cruel masters to rule on Earth again. Image © Onyx PathĪctually, the jerk rulers in the realms are still alive too and calling themselves the Exarchs. Today, only mages who are shown a path to the Supernal Realms through one of the five great Watchtowers can begrudge this gap and work magic. They made it but the Realms were sundered from the mortal realm by a dark and horrible reason called the Abyss. The rulers of Atlantis went to the source of magic, the five Supernal Realms, to claim them for themselves. They created wonders and everyone was happy forever. On the beautiful island of Atlantis, so the legend goes, the most powerful mages gathered and learned from great dragons. Back in the misty depths of time magic was everywhere and people could access it whenever. They are committed to shaking things up by looking for the connections that science, media, and technology offer to magic.
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MAGE THE AWAKENING FREE
The Free Council is the newest Order, formerly a group of outsiders that joined the traditional four at the beginning of the twentieth century.The Silver Ladder mages have big plans and seek to lead the Pentacle in uplifting the Sleeper population and returning the world to its former, gloriously magical state.They have developed some of the most amazing innovations but also unearth trouble now and again. The Mysterium is devoted to seeking out the lost lore of Atlantis and bringing it to light.The Guardians of the Veil are enforcers of the secrecy of magic, finding mages and artifacts that threaten to expose it all and silencing them.The Adamantine Arrow is made of the most militaristic mages, out to fight the enemies of the Pentacle (see below) and magical threats of all sorts.Called the Pentacle, this community consists of four Orders who date back to at least the Middle Ages and claim to represent traditions from Atlantis itself… as well as one group of troublemakers. This leads to the social axis (Y-splat) which is a MM mage’s Order, one of the five magical fraternities that make up the default community of mages.
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Once they’re Awakened, mages get to choose what they do with it.
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They might still live among the Sleepers (get it?) but they are forever changed by the experience. Mashed are normal people until they Awaken to the real, magical side of the world. This gameline is steeped in lore like all the rest but also
MAGE THE AWAKENING SERIES
Continuing with our series on Ten Things to Know about various settings in the Chronicles of Darkness, in this post we’re going to take a look at Mage: The Awakening.