The Ascension Warrior is a fiction novel for Mage: The Ascension and the second part of the Horizon War Trilogy.
Summary[]
- The Ascension War has raged between the mages of the Nine Traditions and the Technicians of the Technocracy for hundreds of years. Though bloody battles have been won and lost, victory eludes both sides. Now, however, a mysterious figure has risen, a being of incredible, inhuman power – the Ascension Warrior. Claiming to be the returned Heylel Teomim, Abomination and barabbus, he comes to bring peace and unity to the warring mages. But will his plans bring resolution to the conflict, or the quiet of the grave?
- Based on Mage: The Ascension and Vampire: The Masquerade from White Wolf Game Studio, The Ascension Warrior follows The Road to Hell in the Horizon War Trilogy. Robert Weinberg is author of the popular Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy.
Contents[]
- Prologue
- Chapter One- Chapter Twenty-Seven
- Epilogue
- Robert Weinberg
Background Information[]
- This novel series is considered non-canon by White Wolf.[1]
- Ads at the back of the book include: Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy, The War in Heaven (Jun. 1998), To Sift Through Bitter Ashes, The Devil's Advocate, The Essential World of Darkness, Fitz-Empress Obituary Ad (The Book of Worlds and The Fragile Path) and a Free White Wolf Novel or Anthology Offer.
- In the Fitz-Empress Obituary Ad, other Mage characters are mentioned. These include: Albert Marmaduke Grossman (Son of Ether, Died), Five unknown dead mages whose names are cut-off in the ad, Dindaine Fitz-Empress (Porthos' Daughter) and Mahmet Kemal (Porthos' Apprentice, Order of Hermes, Flambeau).
Memorable Quotes[]
"Dying," said Madeleine Giovanni, "is the one fate I do not fear." - pg. 339
Characters[]
- X344, "Ernest Nelson" - Cyborg, Iteration X
- Sharon Reed - Research Director, Progenitor, Pharmatologist
- Velma Wade - Progenitor, Assistant, Pattern-Clone, Shapeshifter
- Comptroller Charles Klair - Iteration X
- Number Seventeen, "Ethan Philips" - Euthanatos Mage
- Pattern-Clone, "Master of Harmony" - Shapeshifter
- Semok - Cephalopod, "Semi-mobile Octopoid Killer"
- Terrence Shade - Method and Mission Specialist, New World Order barabbi, Serves Aliara
- Sam Haine, the Changing Man - Verbena Mage
- Albert du Clair - Verbena Mage
- Shadow of the Dawn, "Questing Child" - Akashic Brotherhood Mage
- Kallikos, "Akrites Salonikas" - Cult of Ecstasy Mage, Time Master
- Alvin Reynolds - Virtual Adept Mage, Cindy's Brother, Hands of Hope Chantry
- "Cindy Reynolds," Number Fourteen - Mage, Alvin's Sister
- Jenni Smith - Verbena Mage, Pattern-Clone, Shapeshifter
- Aliara, "Empress of Lust" - Maeljin Incarna
- Joe Steeger - Everwell Chemical Corporation Security Officer, Guard, Died
- Ms. Millicent Hargroves - Private Secretary to Enzo, Serves Aliara
- Enzo Giovanni - Vampire
- Lord Steel, the Duke of Hate - Maeljin Incarna
- Ezra - Nephandi Mage
- John Doe - NWO Mission Specialist, Died
- Russ Kinross - NWO Mage
- Madeleine Giovanni - Vampire
- Lucy, "Luce" - Mortal, Rat Pack Member
- Sarah - Mortal, Rat Pack Member
- Allyson - Mortal, Rat Pack Member
- Sybil - Mortal, Rat Pack Member
- Brian - Mortal, Rat Pack Member
- Pete - Mortal, Rat Pack Member
- Jamie - Mortal, Rat Pack Member, Died
- Leo - Mortal Bartender, Sam's Nephew, Owner of Sleazy Sam's Bar and Grill
- Ralph - Mortal
- Sam - Mortal, Former Owner of Sleazy Sam's Bar and Grill
- Pietro Giovanni - Vampire
- Little Willy - Mortal, Hellblazers Member, Died
- Cain Riley - Mortal, Twin, Hellblazers Member, Died
- Abel Riley - Mortal, Twin, Hellblazers Member, Died
- Sister Susie - Mortal
- Kakraw - Horizon Guardian, Raven Bygone
- Scarlett Dancer - Order of Hermes Mage
- The Lord of the Ways, "Reaper" - Horizon Guardian, Spirit
- Marianna - Cult of Ecstasy Mage
- Porthos Fitz-Empress - Order of Hermes Mage
- Dr. Atkins, "Wailer" - Nephandi Lord, Fomori, Former Technology Mage
- Dr. Lauri Coup - Progenitor, Primary Investigator
- Otto Castillio - Holographic Image
- The Computer - AI
- Tex Wilson - Mortal Singer
- Tony - Verbena Mage, Died
- John - Verbena Mage, Died
- Erin - Verbena Mage, Died
- Kathy - Verbena Mage, Died
- Jill - Verbena Mage, Died
- Montifloro Giovanni - Vampire
- Esperenza Morales, "Hope" - Enzo's Ghoul
- Nichodemus Mulhouse - Mage
- Don Caravelli - Vampire, Destroyed
- Mattias - Biker Gang Leader, Knights of Pain
- Grim Brothers (Mark Grim and Jacob Grim) - Enzo's Ghouls
- Hyemyŏng Sŭnim - Akashic Brotherhood Mage
- Getulio Vargas São Cristóvão - Order of Hermes Mage, Turned into a Gold Statue
- Gillan - Order of Hermes Mage
- Najjda Bantu - Celestial Chorus Mage
- Tom "Laughing Eagle" Smithson - Dreamspeaker Mage
- Lady Charlotte Quay - Verbena Mage
- Heylel Teomim - Pattern-Clone, Shapeshifter
- Tyrone Rhodes
- Kurt Bylunt - Progenitor, Associate
- Charles Reid - Progenitor
- Walter Thrun - Mage, Head of Chantry Security
- Eloine - Verbena Mage
- Tom Alden, "Whitey" - Mortal
- Mrs. Alden - Mortal, Divorced
- Old Enoch - Horizon Guardian Spirit
- Father Radju - Mortal
- Stanley - Mutated Doberman
- Romeo - Nephandi Mage, Died
- Al - Nephandi Mage, Died
- Resha Maise - Progenitor, Research Associate, Shapeshifter
- Sean Rohwiller - Verbena Mage
- Claudia Johnson - Verbena Mage
- Rambam, "Mr. Klein", "Moses Maimonides," "Second Moses" - Mage
- Judith - Mage, Ezra's Sister
Terminology[]
Acajutla, Administrati, Administrators, Agent, Africa, Akashic Brotherhood, Albany, Alpha-Alpha, Amalgam, America, Arcane, The Archives, Archmages, Arms of Var, Artificial Intelligence, Ascension, Ascension War, Ascension Warrior, Assistant, Associates, Autocthonia, Avatar, Awakened/Awakening, AW Project, Bane, Bani, Balador, Baltimore, Barabbi, Bioconstructs, Biomechanical Implants, Biomodification, Black Spiral Dancers, Blood, Board of Directors, Borneo, Boston, Britain, Brooklyn, Cabal, Cabal of Pure Thought, California, Casey Cabal (Verbena), Celestial Chorus, Chairman, Chantry, Chicago, Childe, Clan, Clone, The Club of Lost Souls, Collective, Comptroller, Concordia, Construct, Convention, Council Chambers of the Nine Traditions, Council of Nine Mystick Traditions, Cowboy Bob's Bar and Grill, Creation, Cult of Ecstasy, Cyborg, Damned, Dark Lord, Data, Deep Space, Deep Umbra, Deep Universe, Delono House (Disappears), Diamond Wall, Digital Web, Director, Disciple, DNA, Do, Doissetep, Dragon Claw, Dragon Scale, The Dragon's Tongue (Nephandi Language), Drahma, Dreamspeakers, Drone, Druai'shi, Dynamic Security (NWO front corporation, destroyed), Earth, Earth Meld, EcoR, Elder, El Salvador, Embrace, Endron Interational, England, Enlightened/Enlightenment, Ether, Europe, Euthanatos, Everwell Chemicals, Faerie, Far Calumn, Fenestra Inferorum, First Cabal, Five Collectives, Florida, Followers of Tylalus, Fomori/Fomor, Foundation, The Fragile Path: Testaments of the First Cabal (Book), Fukuoka Chantry House, Fulroony Manor (Destroyed), Gaia, Gate of Time (Portal), Gateway, Genegineers, Ghosts, Ghoul, Gilgul, Giovanni, Giovanni Co., Glade, Grand Convocation, Gray Collective, Gray Man, Great Betrayal, Great Crash of '97, Guardian, Hands of Hope Chantry (Los Angeles), Harmony (Realm), Haunted Palace (Destroyed), The Hellblazers (Gang), High Council, HIT Mark, HIT Mark VI, Hologram, Horizon, Horizon Beacon, Horizon Realm, Horizon War, Indiana, Indianapolis, Inner Circle, Inquisition, Inquisitors, Investigator, Iteration X, Janissaries, Kindred, Kine, Knights of Pain (Biker Gang), Kuwait, Laboratory, Lab Technician, Laboratory Technician, Lachesis Portal, Lake Ontario, Loch Lomond, Low Umbra, Lupines, Lycosis, Mad Dog (Beer), Maeljin Incarna, Mage/Magi/Magicians, Magic/Magick, Malfeas, Manchester, Manhattan, Marauder, Maryland, Masses, Master, May Sinclair Laboratory "Sinclair Lab" (Tech. Think Tank), Men in Black, Mausoleum, Middle East, Minnesota, Miracle Pool, Mission Specialist, Mokolé, Moose Jaw Cemetery, The Museum of Living Artifacts, Nanobyte, Narbonne, Near Umbra, Nepal, Nephandi, Netherworld, New World Order, New York, New York City, Nine Traditions, Node, Operatives, Orbis Finiens, Order of Bonisagus, Order of Hermes, Paradox, Pennsylvania, Pentex, Pentex Corporation, Philosopher's Stone, Portal, Posht, Primary Investigator, Primi, Primium, Progenitors, Psychic, Quantum, Quintessence, Random Elements, Rat Pack (Gang), Reality, Reality Deviant, Reality Variants, Realm, Reason, Red Talons, Research Associate, Research Director, Rochester, Sabbat, Sauroid, Saxum Oculorum, Science, Scotland, Scream and Whisper (Shadow's Twin Swords), Seat of Forces, Seats of Power, Shade Realm of Forces, Shaytan, Shivakti, Sigil, Singapore, Sire, Sisters of Mercy Hospital, Sleazy Sam's Bar and Grill, Sleeper, Slovenia, Solificati, Songgwang-sa, Songgwang-sa Meditation Temple, Sons of Ether, Sorcerer, Sorcery, Soul, Spain, Spectral Window, Spell, Sphere, Spirit, Spirits of the Dead, Spirit World, Sruth na Mblath, Static Reality, Stonehenge, Subrealm, Symposium, Syndicate, Table Cenacle, Tain, Tapestry, Technician, Technocracy, Technocratic Union, Technocrats, Technomancer, Tellurian, Temple of Great Awakening, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Tokyo, Toledo, Tradition, Triton's Deep, Triumvirate, True Name, Tuscany, Type A Clone, Umbra, Undead, United States, Unity, Vali Shallar, Vampire, Venice, Verbena, Virginia, Virtual Adepts, Warlocks, War in Heaven, The Ways, Werebeasts, Werewolves, Wheel, The Wheel of Drahma, White Monday, Whiteout, Witches, Wizard, Wyrm, Wyrmholes,
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