Guildbook: Artificers is a splatbook for Wraith: The Oblivion detailing the Artificers, users of Inhabit.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- Spirits in the Material World
- "So kid, you thought you were hot stuff on the nets while you were alive. Ever hack anything from the inside before? Didn't think so. Well, don't worry, back then you were only human. Now you're something else. See you on the inside!" — Kathryn Chan, Renegade Artificer
- Taste the Hammer and the Flame!
- In the darkest heart of Stygia, they wait for you. Do you have what it takes to place another in the flames of soulfire? Can you bring your hammer down and close your ears to the screams? Or even now, are the Legionnaires bringing you to the forge in chains? One way or another, the Artificers' Guild is waiting for you.
- Guildbook: Artificers is the first in a series of Guildbooks for Wraith: The Oblivion. Revealing the secrets of the Eldest Guild, it will take you from the desolation of the Labyrinth to the silicon nerves of the Information Age.
- Guildbook: Artificers also includes:
- New and Ancient uses of the Inhabit Arcanos!
- The history of the Guild (and the true reason for its banishment!)
- The first chapter in a continuing story that will shape the fate of all of the Guilds!
Chapters[]
Ghost Story: A Road of Steel and Souls, Part I[]
A meeting of faux Deathlords representing real ones plan to rescue Charon from the Labyrinth, find the traitor among them, and get the Guilds reinstated.
Chapter One: The Guild[]
Details of what the Artificers stand for, including information on what they really represent and how they plan to go about it.
Chapter Two: The Hammer of the Damned[]
Excerpts from the Book of Nhudri give the clan history in (slightly biased) detail.
Chapter Three: The Guild Inside and Out[]
The opinions of the Artificers on the other denizens of the Shadowlands and the World of Darkness, and the structure of the Guild itself are both contained in this chapter.
Chapter Four: Putting the Hammer Down[]
How to forge the human soul into cheap goods and weapons in a few easy steps!
Chapter Five: Ways and Means[]
The alternate Arcanos arts, Merits and Flaws, skills, and other goodies available for the Artificers Guild alone.
- The Ancient Arts:
Lightning's Bite- Flawsight
- Sympathy
- Creeping Rot
- Kinesis
- The New Arts:
- Command Line
- Reconstruction
- Wipe Me
- Hi, Mom!
- Horizontal & Vertical Control
- Merits and Flaws:
- Platform Snobbery (1 point Flaw)
- Forgemarked (2 point Flaw)
- Hammerbitten (3 point Flaw)
- Entropy Sink (3 point Flaw)
- Technophobic (4 point Flaw)
- Virus Carrier (5 point Flaw)
- Sense of the Metal (1 point Merit)
- Clean Countenance (3 point Merit)
- Master Forger (4 point Merit)
- Shielded by the System (2-5 point Merit)
- Guild Sponsor (1-5 point Merit)
- New Background: Guild Status
- New Skill: Soulforging
Chapter Six: Hammerboys and Netsurfers[]
Ready-made sample characters for your convenience.
- Ye Olde Village Smith
- Wiped-Out Netsurfer
- Hammerboy
- Ex-Artificer
- Cult of Nhudri Fanatic
Appendix: Who Was Who[]
The important players in the Brotherhood of the Hammer.
Background Information[]
The first volume in what was to end up being an incomplete line of Guildbooks.
Memorable Quotes[]
"The only ones to watch out for are the ones with the bad Italian accents. The rest of them wouldn't know a ghost from goulash. Some of them have tried to climb into the nets recently; they're either crazy, incompetent or both." - April Riordan, Artificer (On Vampires)
"Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. The ones who use tech we can fiddle with, but they have the best defenses against the arts of anyone out there. Pretty much, they're the only ones who realize that there are ghosts in the machines, and they want us out." - Derek Pierce, Journeyman attached to the Skeletal Legion, 3rd Division (On Werewolves)
"There's an entire group of these idiots who rely on computers but don't have that many defenses against us. Mind you, the Shroud tends to be tough in places like that, but once you're in, you're in like flint. It is sheer joy seeing the look on one of these idiots' faces when you take his hard drive and turn it into gumbo." - Jennifer Tobin, Nomad of the nets and Renegade hacker (On Mages)
"They have nothing to offer us; we really can't do too much to them. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to ignore them; they spend more time talking to Monitors and Chanteurs, anyway." - Lisette Beltre, Journeyman (On Changelings)
Characters[]
- Dame Katrin - Masquer
- Kassandra - Oracle
- Miklos - Guild Wraith
- Lord Ember: Guildmaster of the Artificers and a major player in Stygian politics, despite the fact his organization is not supposed to be around, Master of Apprentices, Second Three
- Nhudri: The wraith who started soulforging and serves as the focus for a bunch of wacky cultists
- Hérnan - Paupers' Legion, Hierarch, Artificer
- Chandler DeShields - P.I., Wraith
- Mario - Artificer
- N.D. Duffy - Artificer
- Aristogeiton - Artificer, Nhudri's Three (Ferrum, Smoke and Macabah)
- Caius Josephus - Artificer, Nhudri's Three (Ferrum, Smoke and Macabah)
- Ravit bat-Yosif - Artificer, Nhudri's Three (Ferrum, Smoke and Macabah)
- Jeanie Clodius - Wraith, Hierarch, Anacreon of Fate, Milwaukee Necropolis
- Howard Desmond -Artificer, Journeyman, Hierarch, 13th Division, Emerald Legion
- Claudia - Renegade
- Joel Glass - Renegade, Northampton Autonomous Souls Collective
- Chauncey Tinker - Artificer, Leicester Necropolis
- Deacon Kenneth Droom - Wraith
- Thora Eimundsdottir - Artificer, Reykjavik Necropolis
- Roger Reynard - Chanteur
- Hermia Mastsoukis - Oracle of Athens
- Brigid Noonan - Artificer, Masterforger
- Valdimir Kruglyak - Alchemist
- Lady Alais Capet - Artificer, The Keeper of the Chain, Steers the Cult of Nhudri, Second Three
- Hugh Gannon - Artificer, Guardian of the Forge, Second Three
- April Riordan - Artificer
- Derek Pierce - Artificer, Hierarch, Skeletal Legion 3rd Division
- Jennifer Tobin - Artificer, Renegade Hacker
- Lisette Beltre - Artificer Journeyman
- Sir Edmund Wilkes-Smythe - Artificer, Master Forger of the Grim Legion
- Kathryrn Chan - Renegade Artificer
- Ducan Bessemer - Artificer
- Johnny Cope - Wraith
- Daisy Lucinda Mickelstein, "Daisy Chain" - Renegade Artificer
- Solly Richardson - Renegade Artificer
- The Porrohman - Artificer
Terminology[]
Apprentices, Artificer (WTO), Artificer Marks, Book of Nhudri, Chains, The Council of Masters, Cult of Nhudri, Forum Charonis Minor (Location), Inhabit, Journeymen, Kinesis, Kyklops (Nhudri's Forge), Oboli, Phocian's Column (Location), The Second Three, Siklos (Legendary Blade), Soulforging, Stygian Steel, Talking Steel: A History of the Artificer's Guild by N.D. Duffy (Book & Relic), The Three Ancients,
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