Laws of the Ascension Rulebook (limited) is a rulebook for the Mind's Eye Theatre version of Mage: The Ascension.
Summary[]
From the Back Cover:
Nine Keys to the Universe
Mages warred for millennia to create new vistas, build a better world or determine the future of humanity. Now their struggles focus on the most important goal of all - achieving their own destinies. Traditionalist, the keepers of spiritual ways, struggle to preserve the guttering spark of magic, while the Technocracy enfolds the world in its scientific web. Every one of these elusive visionaries has the potential to surpass ordinary human limits and Ascend to a new understanding of the cosmos. But that enlightenment comes only to those who can survive and overcome their failings.
And All in Your Hands
Finally, the definitive guide to live-action Mage. Nine Traditions, nine Spheres and all of the Abilities, Attributes and storytelling ideas you can handle! Everything from the Tellurian to the Technocracy, with all the material you need to begin your own quest for Ascension.
Contents[]
Eight exclusive pages.
Beginnings and Endings: A Magical Tale[]
Chapter One: Introduction[]
Chapter Two: The Traditions[]
Chapter Three: Character Creation and Traits[]
Chapter Four: The Spheres[]
Chapter Five: Rules, Systems and Drama[]
Chapter Six: Storytelling[]
Chapter Seven: Allies and Antagonists[]
Index[]
Background Information[]
In addition to the features common to most Limited Edition releases — leatherette cover, cloth bookmark, etc. — Laws of Ascension's Limited Edition also included "Whispers from the Exalted Ones," which appeared to be a letter from one of the Sidereal Exalted, implying that the Sidereals are modern Avatars. The text is reproduced here:
Whispers from the Exalted Ones[]
- We are the voices of the time before this time. We are the fire that burns within you. We are your hand upon the locus of creation, and your transfiguration.
- Once, we were as great blazes, and now we are as the campfires of men. Once, we shaped the turning of the heavens. Our desires changed the destinies of men and ended kingdoms. Now we are made lesser, echoes of the greatness that once was, choked slowly into silence by the doom that our own hands wrought.
- Our story is one of hubris. Once, we were party to a crime so great that words cannot contain it. We laid our hands upon the pillars of heaven, and our bloodied knives gave birth to death itself. Our payment was the power to shape the fates of men, and we took it, for we were young and proud in those days.
- And the power we had gained brought us nothing but sorrow. We were senseless with our power. Our road to perdition was paved with a hundred curses, each worse than the last, brought down upon our heads by the sin that brought our might.
- In penance, we sought to mend the ills of the world without realizing that we ourselves were sickened. A war raged over creation's destiny. Blindly, we followed prophecies that we ourselves had pronounced. Although the signs showed us that our pronouncements were in error, we closed our eyes to them. Surely, our vision was not in error. Rather, the portents of ill omen were mirages. The signs we ignored must only be the anxious dreams of cowards and old women.
- We were wrong, and the world was broken for our error. Since then, it has been the way of things. Ceaselessly, we strangle one-another, while the world around us grows ruddy with the sunset of creation. As age piles upon age, our pride builds for us a mountain of murders so great that a man might stand upon it and have commerce with the sad and shabby things that once were gods.
- This is our punishment. No good can come of the power that our sins won when the world was young. I have seen what must be done. I have spoken with the victims of our awful crime, as they lay sleeping in their tombs. I have set my face into the darkness.
- I will bring justice into this world. I will return to those who are its rightful owners. They are not unforgiving, my new masters. In the dark places beneath the underworld, they will teach us the error of our ways.
Solution to the substitution cipher first seen in the Order of Hermes Tradition Book:[]
- Be Aware That The Time For The Unveiling Of The Tenth Sphere Is Near
- The Ahl-I-Batin Hold The Key
- The Age Of Earth Draws To A Close
- The Age Of Fire Is At Hand
- When The Works Of Man Shall Be Cast In Ruins
- The Time Of The Phoenix Is Upon Us
- As It Rises From The Ashes
- So Shall We Emerge Form The Shadow Of Science
Memorable Quotes[]
Crossover Hell: "Of Course I Can Turn a Vampire Into A Lawn Chair." - from the Storytelling chapter
Characters[]
- Mark - Mage, from the exclusive eight pages
- X - Mage, from the exclusive eight pages
- Florence - Mage, Son of Ether
- David - Mage, Akashic Brotherhood
- Tiernan - Mage, Verbena
- Gregor - Mage
- Thurston - Mage
- Blink - Mage, Hollow One
- Leigh - Mage, Verbena
- Stefan DeChase - Mage, Celestial Chorus
- Randall - reluctant ally
- Jean Gris - Mage, Euthanatos
- Brother Grizzly - Dreamspeaker ally
- Harlequin - Mage, Jean's mentor, Euthanatos
- Augusta - veteran custos
References[]
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