Hidden Lore is a sourcebook for Mage: The Ascension Second Edition. It contains a storyteller's screen.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- From Our Archives...
- A Storyteller's work is never done. A few helpful charts, secrets and reference sheets, however, can make his (or her) life a whole lot easier.
- To Your Table:
- All the charts you need for your Mage chronicle can be found within this fold-out screen - combat tables, easy-reference Sphere sheets, character creation steps and more. Meanwhile, the enclosed booklet offers a variety of goodies for players and Storytellers alike.
- A Pack of Mystick Goodies.
- Hidden Lore: The Second Edition Book and Screen contains a host of helpful hints and useful magicks, including:
- Easy-access charts and tables, and full-page Sphere descriptions.
- A complete Chantry set in Seattle (WOD), Washington.
- A selection of spells for mysticks of all kinds, plus background details, famous mages, rules-options and more.
Contents[]
Introduction[]
Chapter One: Lore[]
General stuff for players.
- Rotes
- Akashic Brotherhood
- Ricochet (
Correspondence, Forces, Matter, Time) - Mindfulness of Wrong Thought ( Mind, Life)
- Pass Calmly ( Mind, Correspondence, Life)
- Ricochet (
- Celestial Chorus
- Spy's Stigmata ( Life, Prime, Correspondence)
- Quietsong ( or Mind, Entropy)
- Consuming Thought ( Mind, Prime)
- Spy's Stigmata (
- Cult of Ecstasy
- Psychometry ( Time, Matter)
- Joyride ( Correspondence, Entropy)
- The Moment That Stretches ( or Mind, Time)
- Psychometry (
- Dreamspeakers
- Spirit Roster ( Correspondence, or Spirit)
- Gremlins ( Entropy, Spirit)
- Gremlin - Stats
- Walking Chair ( Matter, Spirit, Prime)
- Spirit Roster (
- Euthanatos
- Safecracker ( Entropy, Matter)
- Return to Darkness ( Entropy, or Forces)
- Chronopathy ( or Time, Mind)
- Safecracker (
- Order of Hermes
- Experience Substance ( Mind, Matter)
- Heat Trace ( Time, Forces)
- Banish Elemental ( Forces, Spirit)
- Phosphoric Marker ( Forces, Life, Correspondence)
- Experience Substance (
- Sons of Ether
- Instant Measurement ( Correspondence, Matter, Mind)
- Pass for Normal ( Mind, Prime)
- Point-to-Point Narrow-Band Transmission ( or Forces, Correspondence)
- Instant Measurement (
- Verbena
- Deduction ( Life, Mind)
- Jack in the Green ( Spirit, Life)
- Jack in the Green (Glade Child) - Stats
- Thorn Wall ( Time, Life, Prime)
- Deduction (
- Virtual Adepts
- Eavesdropper ( Correspondence, Forces)
- Mental Interface ( Correspondence, Forces, Mind)
- Boot Buzzer ( Correspondence, Forces, or Forces, Correspondence, Prime)
- Public Posting ( or Mind, Correspondence, Prime)
- Eavesdropper (
- Akashic Brotherhood
Chapter Two: Shadows in the Rain[]
Concerns the Conjurer's Cubbyhole, a magic shop that is more than it appears.
Chapter Three: Storyteller Goodies[]
Information that is best left in Storyteller hands.
- Storyteller Magicks
- Corrupter Magick
- Mindscreen ( Mind)
- What Did You Say? ( Correspondence, Mind)
- Buzz ( Prime)
- Frame Up ( Matter, Mind)
- Loving Scar ( Life, Spirit)
- Blindside ( Correspondence, Matter)
- Exalted Desire ( Life, Mind, Prime)
- Mindscreen (
- Mad Magick
- That Rascal Puff ( Life, Forces, Prime)
- Babel ( Mind)
- Back to the Earth ( Matter, Life, Prime)
- Temple Pillars ( Forces, Matter, Prime)
- Temple Gongs ( Forces, Matter, Mind, Life, Prime)
- Nuzzlings ( Prime, Matter, Spirit)
- That Rascal Puff (
- Technocracy Procedures
- Sustenance Pill ( Life, Prime)
- Remote Piloting Override ( Forces, Prime, Matter)
- Crocodile Blood ( Life, Matter)
- Re-education Mode ( Mind, Time, Prime)
- Nearest and Dearest ( Mind, Correspondence, Time)
- Liftoff ( Forces, Matter, Prime)
- Sustenance Pill (
- Corrupter Magick
Chapter Four: Handouts[]
Offers a selection of photocopiable handouts for all Mage players.
Background Information[]
- "A Parting Howl" on the credits page notes that White Wolf has just moved to a new building:
735 Park North Blvd.
Suite 128
Atlanta, GA 30021
USA
- Also noted is that Bill Bridges, developer and co-creator of Werewolf: The Apocalypse, had left to join HDI, while Danny Landers had left to pursue his masters degree. They were replaced by former editor Ethan Skemp and Kim Pullen, respectively.
Memorable Quotes[]
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Characters[]
- Introduction
- Cat - Mage
- Chapter One: Lore
- Broty - Mage
- Francesca Inez Garcia y Hernandez - Order of Hermes Mage
- Master Joro - Akashic Brother Mage
- Ikana the Ronin - Akashic Brother Mage, died
- Sunday Lynn - Celestial Chorus Mage
- Letitia the Venerated - Celestial Chorus Mage
- Hasan Naraswami - Euthanatos Mage
- Benedetto Chiarezza - Celestial Chorus Mage
- "Bourbon" Jan Treelinck - Cult of Ecstasy Mage
- Four Arrow Cougar - Dreamspeaker Mage
- Alex Twelvetrees - Dreamspeaker Mage, Four Arrow Cougar's disciple
- Srivasi Parananda - Euthanatos Mage
- Constanza Perugia - Euthanatos Adept, died
- Just Larry - Cult of Ecstasy Mage
- Phoebe Tetramegestus - Order of Hermes Mage
- Cardinal Nunzio Blanco - Order of Hermes Mage
- Helga Zalau - Order of Hermes Mage
- Stanford Latch - Son of Ether Mage
- Mages of Note
- Tradition Masters
- Technocrats
- The Matriarch
- Andre Takahashi
- Oscar Hamilton
- Alonzo Vendiz - Null-B chief commander, died
- Dr. Ken Himiitsu
- Eva Raum
- Weaver
- Terrance Whyte
- Wild Cards
- Secret Agent John Courage
- Jodi Blake
- Demonseed Elite
- Robert Davenport
- Mama Goose - Marauder Mage
- Islington Horror - Marauder Mage
- Jennifer Rollins
- Mages of Note
- Chapter Two: Shadows in the Rain
- Cyril Gosstocks - N.W.O. Gray Suit, Benning Aircraft
- Heather Cross - Euthanatos Mage
- Petrodon
- Cheshire
- Personalities
- The Shadow Box Players
- The Leaders
- Rudolfo Ouspensky
- Lisa Yokahama - Rudolfo's apprentice, Order of Hermes Mage
- Branwyn Elspeth
- Hyperion, aka "Hype" (Francis Hyperion Keating)
- "Fritz" - Cult of Ecstasy Mage
- Rudolfo Ouspensky
- Chantrymates
- Acolytes
- Sally Cornwall
- Stefani Olsen
- Larry Cook
- Dawn Groseclose
- Chris Russell
- Stagehands - Sleepers
- CeeCee
- I.J.
- The Leaders
- The Shadow Box Players
- Personalities
- Chapter Three: Storyteller Goodies
- Dr. Romain Guy - Technocrat Mage
- Collette - Romain's daughter
- That Rascal Puff - Marauder Mage
- Mary Tomesha - Orphan Mage
- Carl Matthew Landless - Verbena Mage
- Arlan "The Smiler" Nattick - Marauder Mage
- Edith Nussbaum - Marauder Mage
- Chapter Four: Handouts
- Preston - Mage
Terminology[]
AlphaFax (Syndicate Firm), Altua, Anarch Wars, Balador, Benning Aircraft (Tech. Construct; Benning Air and Space Research Center), Black Dog Game Factory, Butcher Street Regulars (Marauder Group), Camarilla, Changeling, Chantry Sangreal (Marseilles), Children of Gaia, Collegium of History, Conjurer's Cubbyhole (Chantry; Theater of the Mind Realm), Cult of the Bear (Dreamspeaker Cabal), The Cult of Quadigsi (Infernalist), Delirium, Digital Web, Doissetep, Drua'shi, Elliot Bay, Etheroscopic Property Analyzer (Son of Ether Device), Fomori, Garou, Glade Child, Himalayan Wars, Justicar, Kibology, Kindred, Lab Rats (Virtual Adept Group), Liquid Haze (Hollow One Coffee Shop), Lodge of the Gray Squirrel, Macrosoft (Virtual Adept Company), Magic Bus (Mobile Verbena Chantry), Magicians of the Bay (MotB; Magick: The Apocrypha), Malfeas, MECHA, Neuropathic Stabilizer (Son of Ether Device), Nosferatu, Null-B, Outcast Clique (Hollow Ones Group), Paradigma, Pike's Place Market, Puget Sound, Qui La Machinae (Tech. Umbral Ship: X156, X200, Vaders), Ravnos, Renton, San Francisco, Scales of the Dragon (Akashic Brotherhood Order), Seattle, Second World of the Diné, Seventh Generation, Shade Realm of Forces, Snoquolmie, Spirit, Tellurian, Umbral Ships, Vancouver, Victoria Station Chantry, Washington, Werewolves,
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