Dark Kingdoms Trilogy is an omnibus collection of three Wraith: The Oblivion novels, all written by Richard Lee Byers.
Overview[]
Summary[]
From the Back Cover:
- Something truly evil is stirring.
- Something cunning and malign, that threatens the living and the dead alike...
- Dark Kingdoms:
- The Ebon Mask
- The Onyx Tower
- The Obsidian Blade
- Greek oracle and voodoo queen, FBI agent and young punk, Pretender's champion and heretic nun, wizened shaman and transsexual mage-many lives, many worlds, many goals...but one common enemy.
- Amidst the collision of ideals in the afterlife, a maelstrom forms.
- Who is the god Smoking Mirror?
- What spiritual debt must the conquerors of America pay for their heedlessness?
- How many mortal lives will be lost along the Mississippi before the balance of death is restored?
- The shadowy, suspenseful trilogy Dark Kingdoms is published here for the first time in one complete volume. Dark Kingdoms is based on Wraith: The Oblivion, a World of Darkness roleplaying game from White Wolf Studios.
Contents[]
- The Ebon Mask (Also published as a stand-alone novel.)
- The Onyx Tower
- The Obsidian Blade
Background[]
Characters[]
Humans:
- Mr. Waxmen (Medium)
- Eric Weiss (Televangelist, Could harm Wraiths)
- Roscoe Jefferson Keene "R.J." or "Vulture" (Arcanum Member)
Mages:
- Marilyn Sebastian (Arcanum Member: Hermaphrodite Mage)
Wraiths:
- James Graham, Earl and marquess of Montrose (Stygian Wraith, Harbinger Guild, Hierarchy: Order of the Unlidded Eye)
- Frank Bellamy, "John Oliver" (FBI Agent, Wraith: Proctor)
- Captain Pizarro (Wraith)
- Adrain (Wraith, Harbinger Guild)
- Katrina (Female Wraith, Ferryman)
- Demetrius (Wraith: Hierarchy)
- Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (Spectre: Doppelganger)
- Dwight (Wraith)
- Cramer (Wraith)
- Freda Schmidt (Female Wraith, Spooks Guild, Heretic)
- Valentine (Wraith)
- Mrs. Duquesne (Female Wraith: Hierarchy)
- Nathan Shellabarger (Wraith: Hierarchy)
- Winston (Wraith: Hierarchy)
- Mike Fink (Wraith: Haunter)
- Howard Potter (Wraith)
- Philp (Wraith: Heretic)
- Warren (Wraith: Heretic)
- Barbara (Female Wraith: Heretic)
- Davey (Wraith: Heretic)
- Nhudri (Charon's chief artificer: Wraith)
- Chester (Les Invisibles: Spectre ally to Dunn)
- Louise (Female Wraith: Heretic)
- Chiarmonte (Wraith: Anacreon of the Order)
- Karl Reinhardt (Wraith Inquisitor of the Smiling Lord)
- Artie (Wraith)
- Queen of New Orleans, "Marie" (Female Wraith: Kingdom of Ivory)
- Antoine (Alligator abambo: Kingdom of Ivory)
- Titus (Root Doctor Wraith: Kingdom of Ivory)
- Daphne (Female Wraith)
- Prudence (Female Spectre: Doppelganger, Pardoner)
- Cassius (Wraith)
- Rudy (Wraith)
- Belinda Talley (Female Wraith: Heretic)
- Starshine Talley (Female Wraith: Heretic)
- Jules the gunsmith (Wraith)
- Doctor Geffard (Wraith: Les Invisibles ibambo)
- Denis (Les Invisibles Wraith)
- "Loki" or Tezcatlipoca "Smoking Mirror" (Malfean)
- Ingmar Svensen (Legionnaire Wraith)
- Jacques (Wraith)
- Louis (Wraith: Masquer: Les Invisibles)
- Robert Fitzroy (Anacreon of the Penitent Legion: Wraith)
- Mulhecturous, "Mother of Plagues" (Malfean)
- Gorool of the Claws (Malfean)
- Pierre (Wraith)
- Charles (Wraith)
- Abdul (Wraith)
- The Smiling Lord
Vampires and Ghouls:
- Charles Tamblyn (Ghoul to Mr. Daimler)
- Mr. Daimler (Nosferatu)
- Miss Paris (Female Nosferatu)
Werewolves: (Natchez Under-the-Hill Hive from Mississippi)
- Bill Dunn (S.A.D. Officer, "infiltrator": Homid Black Spiral Dancer Ragabash)
- Cankerheart (Metis Theurge Black Spiral Dancer)
- Woundraper (Black Spiral Dancer)
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