Nephandi

A faction of fallen mages within the [ mage the ascention]]setting. Diameticly opposed to the technocracy and the traditions. These mages represent the desire to obliterate all reality and draw it into a primal void for all time

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It is a mistake to compare Nephandi to simple infernalists. In the same sense a mistake to compare a murderer to a serial killer. Both are unsavioury charecters however, one is much much worse. Infernalists are those who sell their soul for their own callous purposes the Nephandi sell their sould to kill the world. In a world of shades of grey they are the black, each without exception a monster. When a mage falls (joins the sect) his enters a Caul (a sort of gateway to hell/shrine of unspeakable horror.) What occurs within is not genrally known as the Nephandi does not discuss it, although things are known to be within the caul with the Nephandi and many do not come out again. If the initiate emerges relativly intact they will have been fundimently and inreversably changed their avatar will have been inverted focusing on discention rather than ascention even their sphere magic shifting for regular to qluilopic. Their focus will now without exception, to drag all into nothingness-causing a great deal off suffering along the way.