Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras Companion is a sourcebook for Chronicles of Darkness, and the companion book for Dark Eras.
Summary[]
- From the Onyx Path Catalog:
- Always Another Secret
- The Chronicles of Darkness stretch back to the beginning of human civilization, and perhaps further. When people fearfully peered into the darkness past their campfires, the Begotten were looking back. When they opened their mouths and spoke, attaching sound to meaning, the Awakened bound those words in power and light. When humanity was forming tribes, werewolves were communing with their totem spirits. When the first cities arose, the undead licked their lips in hunger.
- And through it all, forces larger and more dangerous than the whole of humanity worked their dire machinations. Even these forces, though, are subject to the tides of history.
- The Weight of Time
- The Dark Eras Companion presents eleven new Eras for the Chronicles of Darkness. Stretching from Ancient Rome and Egypt through the Black Death, the Thirty Years War, the Reconstruction, and the Russian Revolution, the Companion showcases even more of the secret history of this eldritch world. Included in each era are “snapshots” of the various supernatural creatures, including vampires, changelings, mummies, and demons. Also included are lists of inspirational media to help you put these Eras in context for your troupe.
- Open the Dark Eras Companion and take another look back in time.
Chapters[]
Introduction[]
The Fall of Isireion[]
Mummy: The Curse, 69 BCE–30 BCE: One of the most storied figures of the ancient world, Cleopatra Philopator would be the last Egyptian ruler of Egypt for nearly 2,000 years. Under the Ptolemies, the blossoming power of the cults rises to the fore, pitting the Deathless against not merely the Lifeless, but also against the living. Come, fall into a tale of failed divine ascension, superlative political skill, sorcery, and deathless ambition.
Forsaken by Rome[]
Werewolf: The Forsaken, 9-12 CE: When Rome set out to conquer Magna Germania, the last real challenge to their power in central Europe, they assumed their historic military might would easily triumph. They were wrong. Despite the ancient treaty between Pure and Forsaken, Rome's might is toppled by betrayal and corruption; will you work to salvage the Augustan Empire from collapse, or will you join with the Wolf-Blooded of the German forests and fight to live free?
The Soulless and the Dead[]
Vampire: The Requiem/Promethean: The Created, 1346-1353 CE: A disease the likes of which no one has ever imagined ravages Europe, killing millions. The undead starve for want of blood, and the Created pine for want of human contact.
Princes of the Conquered Land[]
Mage: The Awakening/Mummy: The Curse, 1501-1568 CE: Heir to Great Zimbabwe, the Mutapa Empire has long endured the tension between the Awakened Royal Mediums and the Arisen craft societies, but both now face the loss of everything they've built. The Portuguese have arrived, and Mutapa is about to fall.
When the Horsemen Rode[]
Promethean: The Created, 1618-1648 CE: For the people living in the fractured remains of the Holy Roman Empire, it really did seem like the harbingers of the Apocalypse rode from the four corners of the Earth. What can the Created do but follow their Pilgrimage through a world torn apart by Famine, Conquest, War, and Death?
Foreboding Lands[]
Geist: The Sin-Eaters, 1585-1590 CE: Sir Walter Raleigh's vision of an English settlement brings new mysteries to Sin-Eaters as they encounter not only their counterparts among the Native people in the New World, but also the strange immortal beings that control the dead. As the Anglo-Spanish War rages across land and sea, what horrors must the Bound confront?
The Year Without a Summer[]
Promethean: The Created, 1816 CE: The eruption of Mount Tambora spawned global climate changes, food shortages across Europe, and other strangeness. It also indirectly led to a summer getaway in Switzerland, which, in turn, led to the rise of a new Lineage of Created.
A Fearful Lesson[]
Beast: The Primordial, 1865-1867 CE: The American Civil War is winding down. The Emancipation Proclamation becomes law, and the slaves are (nominally) free. The post-war South is wrecked, ungoverned, and violent, and the Children of the Dark Mother are there in the wreckage, teaching their savage lessons.
Lifting the Veil[]
Second Sight, 1885-1890 CE: What happens to the division between Twilight and the physical world when suddenly the western world sets out to "pierce the veil" between the worlds en masse? The rise of spiritualism in the late Victorian era challenges the natural order of things, bringing spirits and ghosts out of the realm of religious belief and into the world of science.
The Master's Tools[]
Demon: The Descent, 1917 CE: The Tsar is dead. Russia is in a state of revolution. The future is bleak and punctuated by a bloody dictatorship. Is this what the God-Machine intended all along? The Unchained are unclear, but they know one thing for certain: They are also unsafe.
Background Information[]
Unlike the other Dark Eras sourcebooks, the settings from this book cannot be purchased on their own.
Memorable Quotes[]
Characters[]
- See individual settings' pages for associated characters.
References[]
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