Art of Mage: The Ascension

Art of Mage: The Ascension
Credits
Author	Jess Heinig
Editor	Carl Bowen
Layout	Richard Thomas with Talon Dunning
Art	Art Director, Interior Art, Mage Glyphs and Book Design: Richard Thomas Interior Art: Larry MacDougall, Guy Davis, Leif Jones, Alex Sheikman, Andrew Robinson, Mike Danza, David Leri, Andrew Trabbold, Christopher Shy, William O'Connor, Richard Kane Ferguson, John Van Fleet, Mark Jackson, John Cobb, Joshua Gabriel Timbrook, Michael Gaydos, Jason Felix, Jeff Holt, Lawrence Allen Williams, Toby Cypress, Drew Tucker, Henry Higgenbotham, Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, Dan Smith, Mark Chiarello, Langdon Foss, Steve Ellis, Ash Arnett, Quinton Hoover, Heather McKinney, Jeff Laubenstein, Richard Thomas, Omar Rayyan, Anthony Hightower, Scott Baxa, Paul Phillips, Kevin Murphy, John Zeleznik, Lawrence Snelly
Publication
Publisher	White Wolf
Imprint	White Wolf Game Studio
Published	December 2000
Pages	63
Publication #	WW 04620
Reference #	ISBN 1-56504-454-1
PDF	DriveThruRPG
Price	Digital: $8.97

Art of Mage: The Ascension is an art book highlighting illustrations for Mage: The Ascension.

Summary

REALITY OVERTHROWN!

Their heritage is magic, their quest truth. They lead humanity to the far horizon and beyond. They are mages, the inventors of sorcery, science and faith. For centuries, they have battled to define existence and lead huamnity to an enlightened age. Now in an age when technology is humanity's magic, the magicians of yesteryear's mystic Traditions fight for survival and the key to the cosmos itself - Ascension.

CHOOSE YOUR TRUTH

The Art of Mage: The Ascension draws together key art and symbolism from across the fundamental game of magic and horror. Herein you'll see magic and myth from the Renaissance, all the way up to the modern day and beyond, as envisioned by heroic mages and super-scientists. Span the entire spectrum of enlightenment with this gorgeous visual sensation that delves into the past and future of magic.

THE ART OF MAGE: THE ASCENSION INCLUDES:

• Material spanning the beginnings of the game to its most recent incarnation
• Art from Alex Shiekman, Lief Jones, Guy Davis, David Leri, Christopher Shy and more
• A look into the themes and inspirations behind both Mage: The Ascension and Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade from developers Phil Brucato and Jess Heinig

Contents

• Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade
• Mage: The Ascension
• The Mage Traditions, The Technocracy, The Marauders and Nephandi
  • Akashic Brotherhood
  • Celestial Chorus
  • Cult of Ecstasy
  • Dreamspeakers
  • Euthanatos
  • Order of Hermes
  • Sons of Ether
  • Verbena
  • Virtual Adepts
  • Hollow Ones
  • Crafts, Orphans and Disparates
  • The Technocracy
  • Iteration X
  • The Progenitors
  • The New World Order
  • The Syndicate
  • The Void Engineers
  • Marauders and Nephandi
• The Mage Tarot
  • The Suit of Questing
  • The Suit if Primordialism
  • The Major Arcana
  • The Suit of Dynamism
  • The Suit of Pattern
• List of Artist Credits

Background

• The book mentions that Sorcerers Crusade was created by Phil Brucato.

The White Wolf 2000 Jul-Dec. Catalog has a different text entry for the second paragraph for the book:

Choose Your Truth

The new edition of Mage: The Ascension redefines the mature, magic-and-horror roleplaying game for the new millennium. The excitement doesn't stop there, though. The lavishly illustrated art book that accompanied the Mage limited edition is now available on its own. You have one more chance to capture the masters of reality in all their glory, not to mention learn the inspirations behind the very look and imagery of Mage.

Characters

• Mitsuro Toshi - Akashic Brotherhood, Instructor
• Deacon Sebastian Vryce - Celestial Chorus, Knight
• Lee Ann - Cult of Ecstasy, Sensualist Musician
• Xoca - Dreamspeaker, Conservationist and Terrorist
• Sir Lawrence White - Euthanatos, Conciliator of Judgment
• Mark Hallward Gillan - Order of Hermes, Errant
• Dr. Wilhelm Gottfried - Son of Ether, Ph. D., Professor of Theoretical Physics
• Ifasen - Verbena, Yoruba Spiritualist
• Cathrine Blass - Virtual Adept, Reality Hacker
• Dracon - Hollow One, Nihilist Pretender
• Sumir Mufsah - Ahl-i-Batin Philosopher
• Ivan Covington - Iteration X Field Agent
• Dr. Aidan Quinn - Progenitor Genegineer (and genetic experiment)
• Choe Yo'ong - Syndicate Vice President of Operations
• Jack Dosin - Void Engineer Marine, shortly before retaking Tenebrous Station (with award for meritorious service)

Terminology

Ahl-i-Batin, Akashic Brotherhood, Ares City, Ascension, Asia, Celestial Chorus, Changeling, Chantry, Crafts, Cult of Ecstasy, Dimensional Science, Disparates, Do, Dreamspeakers, Dynamism, Euthanatos, Fetishes, Gaia, Gauntlet, Gehenna, Golconda, Hollow Ones, Iteration X, Luna, Mages, Magic, Marauders, Men in Black, Nephandi, New World Order, One, Order of Hermes, Order of Reason, Orphans, Pattern, Primordialism, Progenitors (Genegineer), Questing, Reality, Renaissance, Sons of Ether, Spirit Realm, Syndicate, Talismans, Technocracy, Tenebrous Station, Traditions, Tradition Council, Umbra, Vampire, Verbena, Virtual Adepts, Void Engineers (Marine), Werewolf, Wraith, Wyrm, Yang, Yin,

References

Previous release	Game Books	Next release
MTAs: Sorcerer Revised	Mage: The Ascension books	MTAs: Tradition Book: Akashic Brotherhood