The Nagaraja were a nominally Mantriki legacy active during the Hellenistic period.[1]
Overview[]
Mantrikis who became interested in Siddhartha Gautama during his days as an ascetic, the group that would become the Nagaraja noticed that, after his deep meditations, they could no longer cast any form of sympathetic magic on him.[1] Of his philosophy of the Middle Way, the Nagaraja took what they viewed as useful and discarded the rest as Sleeper rhetoric; specifically, they latched onto the refusal to attach the self onto particular desires.[2] However, the Nagaraja went one step further; this legacy decided to seize the souls of others to regularly break patterns of attachment — first one's own, then that of the next soul taken in, and so on.[2]
As a general rule, this legacy is composed of rootless wanderers who have given up all former possessions.[2] There is no formal ranking among Nagaraja, but informally, those with more legacy attainments garner more respect.[2]
As time passed, this legacy came to the attention of the Tremere, who absorbed them as another house within the greater Tremere legacy.[2] By the second century CE, the Nagaraja ceased to exist as an independent group.[2]
