The Chaos Factor is a sourcebook crossover for Mage: The Ascension, Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. A sprawling adventure arc where Samuel Haight seeks to raise a power like none other from its resting place beneath Mexico City.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- The Skinner is Loose!
- Samuel Haight, arch-enemy of all Garou and target of the Verbena, has latched onto a secret that could begin Gehenna! All over the World of Darkness, mages, Kindred and Garou rush to intercept him. Some would kill him. Others would aid him...
- On the Day of the Dead!
- From Mexico City to the deserts of Jordan, Haight and his allies race to uncover the secret to ultimate power. But will this power strengthen Haight, or lead to the end of the world as we know it?
- He Must Be Destroyed!
- This is a multi-level crossover for Vampire, Werewolf, and Mage and includes:
- A mini-sourcebook for Mexico City, backwater of the Technocracy, and headquarters of the Sabbat.
- A horrific secret that could usher in Gehenna.
- The last stand of Samuel Haight.
Contents[]
Prologue: A Day in the Life[]
Written by James A. Moore.
Introduction[]
- Suggested Reading:
- Love and Rockets by the Hernandez Brothers (Comic)
- GURPS: Aztecs from Steve Jackson Games
- National Geographic
Book One[]
Chapter One: History and Geography[]
Chapter Two: Denizens of Mexico City[]
Book Two[]
Introduction[]
Chapter One: Trail of Blood[]
Chapter Two: Treasure of Tears[]
- The Sun Lamp - Device
Appendix One: Characters[]
- Golems - Stats
- Garou
- Pup: Newly Changed - Stats
- Average Werewolf - Stats
- Leader - Stats
- Kindred
- Generation: 13th - Stats
- Generation: 11th - Stats
- Generation: 8th - Stats
- Mages
- Newly-Awakened Mage - Stats
- Experienced Mages - Stats
- Chantry Leaders - Stats
Appendix Two: Rules[]
- The Rite of the Dead - Level Five
Background Information[]
Samuel Haight has been seen previously in The Valkenburg Foundation, The Storyteller's Handbook to the Sabbat, Rage Across the Amazon, The Book of Chantries, White Wolf Magazine #40, New Orleans by Night and When Will You Rage?.
The Ad at the back of the book is for Wraith: The Oblivion (Summer 1994).
Memorable Quotes[]
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Characters[]
The Chaos Factor is a crossover sourcebook and contains characters from different game lines. Therefore there will be compatibility issues.
- Samuel Haight - A Garou/Ghoul/Mage who is coming to Mexico City to gain the blood of a extremely powerful vampire (who he believes to be a Antediluvian, but is really only a Methuselah), planning to use the vitae he gains to become even more powerful and then drop from sight and focus on expanding his Skin Dancer tribe.
- Harzomatuili, Leader of the Sepulchre - The highest ranking Black Spiral Dancer in the America's, he was with Cortes when he conquered Mexico and has never left. Leader of the Hell-Pit Hive/Underbelly of the Wyrm beneath Mexico City. For over 500 years he has served the Wyrm, now he is allied with both Pentex and the Sabbat at the highest level, as an unbound ghoul of their Regent Melinda Galbraith, and a key factor and enforcer of her ascent to the role.
- Huitzilopochtli - A Baali Methuselah who has been in torpor under Mexico City, who is using Samuel Haight to cause chaos in the heralding of his awakening, planning to give The Skinner his blood if he succeeds, and to sacrifice the 400 residents of Paraíso Vista to Baal.
- Regent Melinda Galbraith - A faux Lasombra actually a Toreador antitribu Elder and diabolist servant to Huitzilopochtli who rose to the rank of Regent of the Sabbat. Childe of the Methuselah Helena.
- Diane White - Human, Called by Samuel Haight, San Francisco
- Gabriel White - White Howler, Diane's Son
- Piedro Cortez - Human, Paraiso Vista
- Montego Diaz - Queztalcoatl - New World Order Mage
- Maria de Guadalupe - Iteration X Mage
- Robert Lawson - Syndicate Mage
- Doctor Niles Anderson - Progenitor Mage
- Lisa Willonby - Progenitor Mage, former Orphan
- Justin Wadsworth - Progenitor Mage
- Bernardino de Sahagun - Celestial Chorus Mage
- Motolina - Celestial Chorus Mage
- Raspberry Popart Salad - Marauder Mage
- Aasdfkljneu Lncc - Marauder Mage
- Pioebock The Mighty - Marauder Mage
- Father Machete - Bone Gnawer Sept Leader of the Sweet Water Sept
- Sling Shot - Bone Gnawer Caern Warder of the Sweet Water Sept
- Mother Baggy Pants - Bone Gnawer Master of the Rite of the Sweet Water Sept
- Wanderer - Skin Dancer Keeper of the Land of the Sweet Water Sept
- Razorface - Adopted Bone Gnawer, Cyber-Wolf
- Joe "Boot" Hill - Assamite Antitribu
- Jorge De La Muerte - Samedi
- Priscus Valenko Dmiritav - Tzimisce
- Archbishop Alicia Barrows - Malkavian Antitribu
- Paladin Rosa Martinez - Toreador Antitribu and childe of Melinda Galbraith
- Lisandro Giovanni - Giovanni
- Delilah Monroe - Daughter of Cacophony Antitribu
- Mad Mary - Malkavian Antitribu
- Louisa de la Simon - Wraith
- Mictlan, the Black Shadow - Wraith
- Amelio Santa Lucien - Nephandi Mage
- Jannesha Torrensi - Cult of Ecstasy Barabbi
- Mister Black, Mister Darke, Mister Night, Mister White and Mister Gray - Men in Black Barabbi
- Sikes - Nephandi Mage
- Bn'lart - Black Spiral Dancer Master of the Rite of the Underbelly of the Wyrm
- Paruppt - Black Spiral Dancer Keeper of the Land of the Underbelly of the Wyrm
- Tispardon - Black Spiral Dancer Master of the Challenge of the Underbelly of the Wyrm
- Blister - Nosferatu Antitribu
- Juan Antonio Lopez de Aguirre - Skidmark - Nosferatu Antitribu
- Julio Martinez - Nosferatu Antitribu
- Aaron Bathurst - Tequila - Nosferatu Antitribu
- Segrid-Sings-Off-Key - Fianna
- Old Sawbones - Female Garou
- Beatnik - Garou from San Francisco
- Leaps-To-The-Clouds - Wendigo
- Ann Susan Black Horse - Wendigo
- John Black Horse - Wendigo Kinfolk, Died
- Trina - Female Euthanatos Mage, Became Barabbi
- Grimm - Mage
- Alaister Crombey - Mage
- Sandi Calloway - Orphan Mage, Bottomless Pit Music Band, Died
- Brit Langley - Orphan Mage, Bottomless Pit Music Band, Died
- Jason Fredricks - Orphan Mage, Bottomless Pit Music Band, Died
- Tony Cruise - Orphan Mage, Bottomless Pit Music Band, Died
- Barks-At-The-Moon - Garou
- City-Basher - Red Talon
- Blake - Vampire
- Hendrix - Female Ventrue
- Terrier - Vampire
- Talaq
- Alex - Mage, Died
- Arthur Trenton - Technocracy Mage
- Robert Larson - Technocracy Mage
- Landford - Technocracy Mage
- Moxy - Female Sabbat Vampire
- Enrique - Sabbat Vampire
- El Dorado - Mage
- Helena - Toreador Methuselah
- Ischen - Demon, Locked in the Umbra
- Robert Allred
- Allison - Alistair Crombey's Wife, Died
- Father Pelo Blanco - Bone Gnawer spirit-speaker from the Past, created the Rite of the Dead
Terminology[]
Antediluvian, Antitribu, Archon, Assamite, Avatar, Awakened, Ba'ali, Balam, Bane, Black Furies, Black Hand, Black Spiral Dancers, Blight, Blood Bond, Bone Gnawers, Book of Nod, Caern, Camarilla, Celestial Chorus, Chantry, Construct, Convention, Coyolxauhqui, Crombey Farm Chantry: World Tree, Day of the Dead, Delirium, Device, Diablerie, Dreamspeakers, Erebus, Euthanatos, Fetishes: Conquistador's Sword, Luna's Sling Shot (Level 3, Gnosis 6), Machete (Level 4, Gnosis 6), Shedding the Spirit Skin, Stone Bag (Level 4, Gnosis 5}, Thunderwyrm Egg (Level 4, Gnosis 8); Fianna, Final Death, First Change, First Team, Fomori, France, Gaia, Gangrel, Garou, Gehenna, Get of Fenris, Giovanni, Glade, Haven, Hedge Magic, HIT Marks, Hive, Hollow Ones, Horizon Realm, H'rugg, Hydra, Inquisition, Institute of Cosmic Ray Research (Tech Construct), Iteration X, Jesuit College (SOL), Jordan, Kindred, Kinfolk, Korratal (Hermetic Mages), Leech, Lupine, Mages, Magick, Marauders, Masquerade, Masses, Men in Black, Methuselah, Mexico, Mexico City, Monkeywrenchers, Moon Bridge, Moot, National Polytechnics Institute (Iteration X), Nephandi, New World Order, Nexus Crawlers, Node, North America, Nosferatu, Oasis Banes, Orphan, Paradox, Paradox Nuke, Paraiso Vista, Pentex, Petra, Phoenix, Pogrom, Progenitors, Pure Heart Sept, Quiet, Quintessence, Realm of El Dorado, Reclusorio Oriente Penitentiary, Red Talon, Rite, Ritual of Sacred Rebirth, Sabbat, Samedi, Scab, Seeker of the Voids, Sept of the Painted Sands, Setties, Shadowlands, Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe (Node), Shroud, Silent Striders, Skin Dancers, Sleepers, Society of Leopold, Spain, Sphere, Sweet Water Sept, Symposium, Talismans: Virgin's Tear, The Staff of the World Tree; Tass, Technocracy, Technomacers, Thaumaturgy, Thunderwyrm, Toreador, Torpor, The Tower of Al Durab (Hermetic Chantry; Korratal), Traditions, True Faith, Uktena, Umbra, The Underbelly of the Wyrm, Verbena, Vhujunka, Vitae, Wakshaa, Weaver, Wheel of Ptah, Witch-Hunters, Wraith, Wyld, Wyrm, Wyrmhole,
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