The world is a dark and dangerous place.
It is filled with enigmas that do not fit neatly into boxes built by scientists or occultists. That doesn't stop us from trying to find an explanation for everything. It is human nature to compartmentalize, to label and identify the things that frighten them - a thing named is a thing neutered. But some things refuse to be categorized neatly. Some mysteries... [click here for more]
From beyond, they come. They are spawned of That Which Is Not, and they hunger for That Which Is. There are a thousand-thousand blasphemies reflected into the gaze of the Abyss, and a thousand-thousand more beyond sight. One by one, slithering in secret, they crawl into the world. The day will come when the Awakened look up from their tomes and ruins and petty factionalism, and wonder where all... [click here for more]
Listen. Can you hear it? The thunder of your soul, roaring within the thousand thousand worlds that exist within you. Gods are there, inside you. Worlds of dream and knowledge, chains of purest gold that bind you to each and every other mind that walks this earth. Sink beneath this base flesh and find the noble self within. Read the words written on your soul. Speak the names you find there.... [click here for more]
Puppeteers and Puppets We are the masters of the world. We control the Machine, watch every human cog spinning within it. We have gained power over the material world and the supernatural. And all we had to do was trade our freedom for eternal servitude to those above us. A Character Book for Mage: The Awakening™
• The history and society of the Seers of the Throne, from individual... [click here for more]
The Fractured Prism The higher truths of the Supernal World are constantly broadcast down into the Fallen World, distorted into a thousand different forms — such as the occult beliefs of Sleepers throughout the world. A mage versed in these traditions can see past the Sleeper’s occult trappings to the Supernal truth, like a faint light that is invisible to the blind. Privy to... [click here for more]
Heritage of the Exiles After the Fall of Atlantis, mages wandered as exiles in the wilderness, forced to eke a living without the protection of their grand city. With new eyes, they explored the world they had so long ignored, unhindered by Atlantean creed. They discovered that magic was not born in Atlantis — it had always existed, hidden in the land itself. Sometimes, even Sleepers... [click here for more]
