I'm going to assume you've never been here before. It's all right, that's to be expected. Not many people have, you know? I mean... not many people like yourself. People with heartbeats. Everybody else, though - they all come here. A lot of them are still around. You know how some people day the best way to deal with an enemy is to outlive him? That's good advice most of the time. But right about... [click here for more]
I know that look of disgust in your eyes. You can't hide it from me. I've seen all its expressions in many faces like your own. I am intimately familiar with rejection. Yes, these scars and stitched wounds are horrifying to behold. Were I truly alive, they'd be enough to kill me. But I am not alive. Not yet. Not in the way you know it. A fire burns within me and animates this dead... [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]
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]
Good Book says the world's caught in a long, dark night, waiting for a brand new dawn to come and sweep all that darkness away. Don't know if that'll ever happen, but I do know this: there's folks set on making things darker. They're looking for ways to break the laws the Good Lord set for all of nature's ways. I've seen it happen, and the night's getting darker and longer. Sometimes I think I... [click here for more]
The Great Work Lead into gold. Worthless into priceless. False fire into a mortal soul. This is the quest of every Promethean, but many roads lead to Mortality. Over the centuries, the Refinements have changed, new ones have been discovered and old ones lost, and secrets too terrible for the mundane world have been buried and covered in lies. The Created cannot afford to let these... [click here for more]
"At the moment of our birth - if that's the word - we make a choice. Life of Death. Division or Unity. Madness or Sanity. Flux or Azoth. Do we really make that choice? Does something in a creator's makeup determine whether we sunder our flesh and slither away, or rise up to begin a new Pilgrimage? I don't know. But I do plan to find out, with your help. Yes, it might hurt a bit." - Dr. Brine,... [click here for more]