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The Hierarchy is a splatbook for Wraith: The Oblivion. The book talks in depth about how the Hierarchy of Stygia works to lord over the wraiths of the western world.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf catalog:

The Empire of the Dead...
The system. The establishment. The powers that be. Management. Since its inception, the Hierarchy has fostered an image of strength and invulnerability, power and omniscience. These are the masks through which the Hierarchy looks out upon the Underworld. These are the mirrors that reflect the faces of those who stand on the outside, looking in.
The Keepers of the Dream!
The Hierarchy exposes the bureaucracy of the Underworld, exploring the organization that is a character's greatest ally or worst enemy, depending on which side of the law she stands on. A must for anyone who wants to see the truth behind the masks.
The Hierarchy is a sourcebook for Wraith: The Oblivion, and includes:
  • New information on the rich culture of the Underworld
  • A glimpse inside the Great Library of Stygia
  • Legendary Hierarchs, character templates, and much more!

Chapters[]

Ghost Story: Verdicts[]

A Centurion is captured and tormented by both Renegades in a trial mocking those held by the Hierarchy.

Chapter One: Introduction: The Powers That Be[]

Notes on how to use the book, why wraiths may willingly join a Legion, and a Hierarchy Lexicon.

Chapter Two: Ex Libris: The History of the Hierarchy[]

From the Great Library of Stygia and the Annals of the Dead come the origins of the Hierarchy, from Charon and his Senators to the modern day Deathlords and Legions.

Chapter Three: Culture: Inside the Hierarchy[]

Details on the city of Stygia itself, as well as the pecking order of the Hierarchy, relations between the Legions, and what life is like for the average Hierarchy grunt.

Chapter Four: Hierarchy Archetypes[]

Character templates based in the Hierarchy.

  • Good Old Boy
  • Mediator
  • Universal Soldier
  • Spin Doctor
  • Secret Agent
  • Traditionalist
  • Explorer
  • Deathlord Servant

Chapter Five: Legendary Hierarchs[]

Famous individuals of the Hierarchy.

Appendix[]

Bits and pieces that do not fit in anywhere else, including new Hierarchy-specific Arcanoi abilities, Artifacts, Archetypes, and abilities. Includes details on the powerful masks of the Deathlords.

  • Hierarchy Arcanos:
    • Argos:
      • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu bulletMenu bulletMenu bullet Return
    • Castigate:
      • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu bulletMenu bulletMenu bullet Confession
    • Inhabit:
      • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu bullet Shadow Weapon
      • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bullet Impress
    • Lifeweb:
      • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu bulletMenu bullet Early Warning
    • Usury:
      • Menu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bulletMenu hover bullet Sustenance
  • Artifacts:
    • Living Page
    • Loyalty Blade
    • Masks of the Deathlords
    • Soulhelm
  • Archetypes:
    • Psyche Archetypes:
      • Analyst
      • Explorer
      • Pragmatist
    • Shadow Archetypes:
      • Anarchist
      • Inquisitor
      • Torturer
  • New Abilities:
    • Skills:
      • Negotiation
      • Networking
    • Knowledges:
      • Military Tactics

Background Information[]

  • Mike Danza did art for this book; his name was accidentally left out of the credits. He was later acknowledged in Dark Reflections: Spectres.
  • The chapter titles are shortened in the table of contents.
  • This is the first book to describe Stygia in any real detail; however, it is contradicted in some places by another description of Stygia in Ends of Empire.
  • The Ad at the back of the book is for: Mage: The Ascension Second Edition (Fall 1995).

Characters[]

  • Lucy - Renegade
  • Conners - Renegade, Arrested
  • Claire - Renegade Leader
  • George Vaughan - Hierarch Spy, Centurion of the Grim Legion
  • Peter - Renegade
  • Richard - Renegade
  • Daniel - Hierarch Legionnaire
  • Silas Fort - Hierarch, Centurion of the Penitent Legion
  • Flavius Secundus - Hierarch, Legate of the Ashen Lady
  • Anna Spengler - Hierarch, Author of The Man of Many Faces: a Personality Assessment of Charon
  • Amalie Millefleurs - Hierarch, A New History of Stygia
  • Iulianus Claudis - Hierarch, from the Imprimatur
  • Horace Venable - Hierarch, The Power of Rumor
  • Stephen Godson - Hierarch, "The Mouth of Truth"
  • Sir Chretien de Grace - Hierarch, from the Imprimatur
  • Niobe - Handmaiden to the Ladies of Fate, from the Imprimatur
  • Sir Clovis - Crusader, Heretic, Immolated
  • Sir Mirabeau - Crusader, Heretic, Immolated
  • Dame Linea - Crusader, Heretic, Immolated
  • Angus Macdonald - Master Artificer, Secrets of the Forge
  • Sieglinde - Centurion of the Storm Maidens
  • Jacobo Fermi - Spokesman for the Cult of the Great Invention, Heretic
  • Frankie LoBello - Confessions of a Reaper
  • Imelda Mariposa - Inspector for the Necropolis of Orlando, Hierarch
  • Mattie Gavvam - Senior Clerk assigned to the staff of the Anacreon of the Ashen Lady, Necropolis of Des Moines, Hierarch
  • Francisco Mariadel Castillo - "The Holy War," Hierarch
  • Jason Dunworth - Economy and Power in Stygia, Hierarch
  • Ludmilla Hoffstein - Centurion, Cohort of the Watchers Upon the Shroud, Legion of paupers, Necropolis of New York, Echoes Across the Shroud
  • Philemaeus - Artificer to the Laughing Lady, The Passage of Centuries
  • Corina Fairchild - Stygian Politics
  • Johnny V. - the Imprimatur
  • Timea of Capua - former Pardoner to the Quiet Lord, the Imprimatur
  • Emile Franck - preface to A Concise History of the Modern Hierarchy
  • Cornelius van de Voort - Chancellor to the Legions of the Grim, Soulbook of the Legions
  • Edgar Rice - Centurion of the Grim Legions, London station, Soulbook of the Legions
  • August Sommers - Anacreon of the Silent Legion, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Natalya Orushenski - Regent to the Anacreon of the Emerald Legions of the Necropolis of Watsaw, Soulbook of the Legions
  • Vincent Voegl - Marshal to the Anacreon of the Emerald Legions, Necropolis of Honolulu, Secrets of the Dark Kingdoms
  • Actemaeon - Ferryman
  • Jonathan Kingsley - former Anacreon of the Gaunt Legions, Chicago, from the Imprimatur
  • Vivienne Cartier - Special Agent to the Legions of the District of Columbia, Soulbook of the Legions
  • Leslie Durant - Recruiter for the Legion of Paupers, Necropolis of Los Angeles, Soulbook of the Legions
  • Thucydides the Younger - The Procession of the Ages
  • Louie - Legionnaire
  • Frankie - Work Team 43, Venous Stair, Stygia
  • Cedric of Glastonbury - Centurion of the Harbor Watch, from the Imprimatur
  • Sister Angeline of the Penniless Multitude - Discorporate Wraith
  • Silenius of Sparta - Minster of Justice for the Grim Legions, Stygia, Hierarch
  • Marianne Thibeault - Regent for the Silent Legion, Necropolis of Berkeley, Hierarch
  • Joachim Pisarro - Marshall of the Skeletal Legions, Stygia , Hierarch
  • Vera Mason - Inspector for the Legion of Paupers, Necropolis of Detroit, Hierarch
  • Raphaela Monteleone - Inspector of the Qauys for the Iron Legion, Stygia, Hierarch
  • Evan O'Brien - Centurion of the Legion of the Emerald Legions, Necropolis of Dublin, Hierarch
  • Basil de Voort - Inspector for the Gaunt Legions, Stygia, Hierarch
  • Signe Ruytens - Pardoner to the Legions of Paupers, Necropolis of Johannesburg, Hierarch
  • Sir Austin Fitzhenry - Order of the Unlidded Eye, Stygia, Hierarch
  • Sarah Smythe-Hutton - Monitor for the Legion of Paupers, Necropolis of Liverpool, Hierarch
  • Flavia Lucillana - Inspector for the Magisterium Veritatis, Stygia, Hierarch
  • Rolando Trujillo - Centurion, Legion of Paupers, Necropolis of Havana, Hierarch
  • Josiah Hurley - Legate of the Office of Justice, Legions of the Grim, Stygia, Hierarch
  • Belle Drummond - Marshall of the Penitent Legions, Necropolis of Austin, Hierarch
  • Rudgarth Rudgarthson - Imperial Order of the Sickle, Stygia, Hierarch
  • Brad Breakstone - Centurion of the Skeletal Legions, Necropolis of Baltimore, Hierarch
  • Lady Veronica - Minister of Antiquities, Stygia, Hierarch, Hierarch
  • Anselm Forrester - Centurion of the Emerald Legions, Necropolis of Charleston, Hierarch
  • Thanatorius the Elder - Princeps Veritatis, Stygia, Hierarch
  • Camilla Harker-Lyndholm - Monitor for the Silent Legion, Necropolis of Amsterdam, Hierarch
  • Luther Sheen - Princeps of the Stygian Watch, Hierarch
  • Veronique Gilbeaux - Regent for the Penitent Legions, Necropolis of Marseilles, Hierarch
  • Gascon du Bois - Sub-Consul of the Skeletal Legions, Stygia, Hierarch
  • Sofia Bascombe - Inspector for the Legions of the Grim, Necropolis of Philadelphia, Hierarch
  • Tristan of Lyons - Archivist, Stygia, Hierarch
  • Siobhann Dunleavy - Regent for the Silent Legion, Necropolis of Galway, Hierarch
  • Hypatia - Librarian and Magister of the Great Library of Stygia, Hierarch
  • Alonso de Nemesio (Alonso the Just) - Order of the Unlidded Eye, Magisterium Veritatis, oversees Inquisitors, Hierarch
  • Heinrich von Zoller - Member of the Grim Legion and Commander of the Order of the Avenging Flame, Hierarch
  • Avery Fellowes - Premier Scout of the Emerald Legion, Hierarch
  • "Cassandra" - Prophetess, Hierarch Outlaw
  • General George S. Patton - Old Blood and Guts is here, and he is in the Legion of Paupers, of all places

Terminology[]

A Concise History of the Modern Hierarchy by Emile Franck (Book), Acta of the High Court of Stygia (Book), The Agora, Anacreons, Arcanum, Benandanti, Celestial Chorus, The Colosseum, Confessions of a Reaper by Frankie LoBello (Book), Cult of the Great Invention (Heretic Group), The Deathlords, Downloader@arcanos.net (Online Legion), Dreamspeakers, Echoes Across the Shroud by Ludmilla Hoffstein (Book), Economy and Power in Stygia by Jason Dunworth (Book), Euthanatos, Fishers (Heretics), Gawain@siege.perolous.net (Online Legion), The Great Library of Stygia, The Hall of the Counselors, Hierarchy, "The Holy War" (Document), Imperial Order of the Sickle, Inter-Legionary Orders: Legions of the Sacred Band, The Online Legion, Order of the Crow; Isle of Eurydice, Isle of Sorrows, Legion (WTO): Silent Legion, Legion of Paupers, Emerald Legion, Legions of the Grim, Iron Legion, Penitent Legion, Gaunt Legion, Legions of Fate; Legion of the Black Hawk, Legion of Mystery, Lexicon: Adjustor, Annals of the Dead, Chancellor, Clerk, Imprimatur, Inspector, Itinera Mortis, Legate, Magister, Magisterium Veritatis, Minister, Soulbook of the Legions; The Man of Many Faces: a Personality Assessment of Charon by Anna Spengler (Book), Marauders, Mediums, "The Mouth of Truth" (Document), Necropoli, Nephandi, A New History of Stygia by Amalie Millefleurs (Book), The Onyx Tower, The Order of the Unlidded Eye, Order of Hermes, Palaces of the Deathlords: Seat of Silence, Seat of Gold Tears, Seat of Thorns, Seat of Burning Waters, Seat of Shadows, Seat of Succor, Seat of Dust, Seat of Fate; The Passage of Centuries by Philemaeus (Book), The Power of Rumor by Horace Venable (Book), The Procession of the Ages by Thucydides the Younger (Book), Sea of Souls, Secrets of the Dark Kingdoms by Vincent Voegl (Book), Secrets of the Forge by Angus Macdonald (Book), Silent Striders, Society of Saint James, Special Legions of the Deathlords: Order of the Avenging Flame, Storm Maidens, Order of the Gray Knights, Warriors of Lethe, The Legion of the Onyx Tear, Guardians of the Labyrinth, The Hands of Bone; Stygia, Stygian Politics by Corina Fairchild (Book), The Sunless Sea, Technocracy, Temples of the Shining Ones, Watchers Upon the Shroud,

References[]

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