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Chronicles of Darkness: 1920s

World of Darkness: 1920s

Trinity Universe: 1920s

Events[]

  • Prohibition. La Cosa Nostra might have remained relatively small and unimportant if not for Prohibition laws.[1] The Emerald Syndicate controls booze smuggling in Boston.[2]
  • Chinatowns around the country gain reputations as dens of vice. Tongs begin fighting.[3]
  • The Void Engineers reach the other planets in the solar system.[4]
  • Sir Isaac Newton is "knocked off" by a Euthanatos mobster.[4]
  • Angelo Ciatino is a serial killer in Naples, Italy, until he's apprehended by Brother Benedetto Leone of the Celestial Chorus. While awaiting execution, Ciatino Awakens, renaming himself Anson D'Arcangelo.[5]
  • The Arcanum sponsors a trip to Arabia, following clues to the whereabouts of Damcar. The expedition never returns.[6]
  • The Council of Nine Mystick Traditions has regained a lot of its old strength, fed by the vitality of the Sons of Ether and a resurgence of Hermetic and Verbena Arts.[7]
  • No one really attempts to draw together what will be called the Hollow Ones until this time[8] A gathering hosted by Gladys Littleton and Gardner Morse is considered the conception of the modern Hollowers.[9][10][11] A Lady Astra Moonshade asks Neville Sinclair who he and his associates are. Quoting T.S. Eliot, he responds "we are the Hollow Men."[12][13]
  • The "Mike's Cure-All" Ritual is created.[14]
  • Howard Jennings Marsh, telepath and financier, makes millions in real estate.[15]
  • The Hellfire Clubs get their start in England.[16]
  • The influence of House Fortunae begets a new Pythagorean movement among Sleepers.[17]
  • The latest of a number of skirmishes between factions of the Order of Hermes and the Celestial Chorus over the Hermetics' use of angels in fetishes.[18]
  • Radical conservative rune-workers begin to break away from the Verbena, and form the Iron Circle, supporting the supremacy of the Aryan race and the rise of the Nazi party.[19]
  • The town of Ashcroft focuses on one of its two primary industries: the Ashcroft Penitentiary.[20]

References[]

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