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Revision as of 14:39, 21 May 2020
Elysium, also known as Elysium: The Elder Wars is a sourcebook for Vampire: The Masquerade. Tag Line: Secrets of Generational Genocide.
Summary
From the White Wolf catalog:
- The Older the Blood
- Immortal, they've lived for centuries, existing on the blood of thousands and watching all they love age and die. They're seen their own power ebb and flow and watched humans come and go, building and destroying. They've sired childer, made ghouls, formed alliances, begun romances and battled allies. They've existed on the brink, and now their emotions are dying.
- The Deeper the Pain
- For the more the elders experience, the more it takes to touch them. The entertainments of the past mean nothing to them, and the only way to fight the waning of the soul is with constant stimulation and more powerful emotions – hatred, anger and rage. Only in this way can the ancient undead feel alive.
- Elysium: The Elder Wars includes:
- Systems for creating elder characters, characters who can date back millennia
- The unique view elders have on the world around them, how to add them to a chronicle and how they manipulate other
- The secretive Gehenna cults and the elders who join them.
Contents
Introduction
A page out the journal of Toreador Elder Redondo de Vasquez. Introduction to Elder Chronicles' themes and mood with reference suggestions to reading and music.
Chapter One: Power Structures
Playing the Deadly Game. The Elder Relations to Childer with the Five Pillars of Power by Redondo de Vasquez, 12th Century Toreador. The Elder Relations to Other Groups.
Chapter Two: The Status Quo
A triste on the Patholoy of the Elder Psyche by one time Nosferatu Justicar Anna Magdelena. History of Resistance to the Elder's Games. Definitions of Elysium and the creation of such places. Examples of Salons and their importance to Elysium. There is an exert from the Diary of Mme. d'Excavalier, Ventrue Elder.
Chapter Three: Tools of Control
How Elders build a Vampiric Empire through:
- Allies
- Contacts
- Disciplines
- Influence
- Military Force
- Resources
- Status
Clan attitudes towards each of these.
This chapter also deals with Elders and Storytelling, how they destroy good ideas through the Jyhad and through Coteries.
Chapter Four: Elder Characters
Appendix: Gehenna Cults
Background Information
- Elysium was later collected with The Anarch Cookbook in War of Ages.
- Interior artist Jason Felix was accidentally left out of the book credits. This was later apologized for in the credits of Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand, published later the same year.
Memorable Quotes
| “ | I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. | ” |
| — Job 42:6 | ||
| “ | Power is the great aphrodisiac. | ” |
| — Henry Kissinger, January 19, 1971 | ||
| “ | The first time a man hurled a curse instead of a stone was the start of civilization. | ” |
| — Sigmund Freud, Collected Works | ||
| “ | Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton. |
” |
| — Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab | ||
| “ | For everyone that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. | ” |
| — King James Bible, Leviticus 20:9 | ||
| “ | The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. | ” |
| — Lord Hallifax, Political Thoughts and Reflections | ||
| “ | Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. | ” |
| — King James Bible, Proverbs 23:13-14 | ||
| “ | If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place, and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. | ” |
| — King James Bible, Deuteronomy 21:18-21 | ||
| “ | Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat well of the good of the land; but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured. | ” |
| — King James Bible, Isaiah 1: 18-20 | ||
| “ | Thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword; But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies. | ” |
| — King James Bible, Deuteronomy 20: 13-14 | ||
| “ | For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. | ” |
| — King James Bible, Acts: 20:29 | ||
| “ | Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. | ” |
| — King James Bible, Exodus 22:18 | ||
| “ | With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding... He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty. He discovereth deep things out of the darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them. | ” |
| — King James Bible, Job 12: 12-13 | ||
| “ | They hunt our steps, that we cannot go into the streets; our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven; they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. | ” |
| — King James Bible, Lamentations, 4: 18-19 | ||
| “ | Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited; for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. | ” |
| — Friedrich Nietzche, Daybreak | ||
| “ | The man who never alters his opinion is like stranding water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. | ” |
| — William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | ||
| “ | How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seems to me are all the uses of this world ... Things rank and gross in nature possess it merely. |
” |
| — William Shakespeare, Hamlet | ||
| “ | All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. However, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty. | ” |
| — Sir Walter Raleigh, A Collection of Political Observations | ||
| “ | Fame is the sun of the dead. | ” |
| — Honore de Balzac, La Recherche de l'Absolu | ||
| “ | The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. | ” |
| — Charles Horton Cooley, Human Nature and the Social Order | ||
| “ | The wretched have no compassion | ” |
| — Samuel Johnson, Letter (1781) | ||
| “ | Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth. | ” |
| — Sir Richard Steele, The Spectator | ||
| “ | I reject the cynical view that politics is inevitable, or even usually, a dirty business. | ” |
| — President Richard Nixon, August 1973 | ||
| “ | I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. | ” |
| — Thomas Jefferson, Letter (1815) | ||
| “ | Capital is dead labor, that, vampire-bite, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor that it sucks. | ” |
| — Karl Marx, Das Kapital | ||
| “ | If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. | ” |
| — Alexander Smith, On the Writing of Essays | ||
| “ | Power tires only those who do not have it. | ” |
| — Giulio Andreotti, Italian Prime Minster (1992) | ||
Characters
- Iontius, 4th Generation Toreador Elder. Sire of Ishaq ibn Ibrahim. Childe of Ariekel.
- Ishaq ibn Ibrahim, 5th Generation Toreador Elder. Sire of Redondo de Vasquez. Childe of Iontius.
- Redondo de Vasquez, 6th Generation Toreador Elder. Childe of Ishaq ibn Ibrahim.
- Mme. d'Excavalier, Ventrue
- Anna Magdelena
Terminology
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Game Books Vampire: The Masquerade books |
Next release: VTM: Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand
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