The Road to Hell is a fiction novel for Mage: The Ascension and the first part of the Horizon War Trilogy.
Summary[]
From the Back Cover:
- The Horizon War Volume One
- The battle for reality ignites as mages of all stripes vie for the fabled Horizon Realms, the dimensions juxtaposing Earth and ... elsewhere. A villain from the mages' past returns to claim his legacy, embroiling both Earth's magick makers and the vampiric Kindred in a struggle both for survival and for dominance of all known creation.
- Based on Mage: The Ascension and Vampire: The Masquerade from White Wolf Game Studio, The Road to Hell is the first installment in the Horizon War Trilogy. Robert Weinberg is author of the popular Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy.
Contents[]
- Prologue
- Chapter One- Chapter Twenty-Six
- Epilogue
- Robert Weinberg
Background Information[]
- This novel series is considered non-canon by White Wolf.[1]
- Ads at the back of the book include: The Ascension Warrior (Nov. 1997), Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy and Mage: The Ascension Second Edition.
Memorable Quotes[]
"The many have again become one. The circle is complete. Gods help us all." - page 375
Characters[]
- Shadow of the Dawn, "Questing Child" - Akashic Brotherhood Mage
- Number Seventeen - Mage
- "Cindy Reynolds," Number Fourteen - Mage, Alvin's Sister
- Alvin Reynolds - Virtual Adept Mage, Cindy's Brother, Hands of Hope Chantry
- Number Twenty-Seven - Mage, Died
- Comptroller Charles Klair - Iteration X
- The Computer - AI
- Sharon Reed - Research Director, Progenitor, Pharmatologist
- Terrence Shade - Method and Mission Specialist, New World Order, Serves Aliara
- X344, "Ernest Nelson" - Cyborg, Iteration X
- Velma Wade - Progenitor, Assistant
- Sh-reeth-Sh - Sauroid
- Pietro Giovanni - Vampire
- Madeleine Giovanni - Vampire
- Montifloro Giovanni - Vampire
- Cesare Giovanni - Vampire
- Don Caravelli - Vampire, Destroyed
- Lisandro Giovanni - Vampire
- Enzo Giovanni - Vampire
- Red Death - Vampire
- Dire McCann - Mage
- Rambam, "Mr. Klein", "Moses Maimonides," "Second Moses" - Mage
- Elisha - Mage, Rambam's pupil and grandson
- Ezra - Mage
- Judith - Mage, Ezra's Sister
- Esperenza Morales, "Hope" - Enzo's Ghoul
- Ms. Millicent Hargroves - Private Secretary to Enzo, Serves Aliara
- Grim Brothers (Mark Grim and Jacob Grim) - Enzo's Ghouls
- Richard Gill - Supervisor of the Syracuse Collective, Technocratic Mage
- Albert - Verbena Mage
- Sam Haine, the Changing Man - Verbena Mage
- Kallikos - Cult of Ecstasy Mage, Time Master
- Antonio Quastro - Pietro's Ghoul, Gardener
- Semok - Cephalopod, "Semi-mobile Octopoid Killer"
- Joe Steeger - Everwell Chemical Corporation Security Officer, Guard
- Aliara, "Empress of Lust" - Maeljin Incarna
- Jenni Smith - Verbena Mage
- Emma - Verbena Mage
- Graves - New World Order, Operations Chief, Died
- Murray Helman - NWO Field Agent, Gray Man
- Mattias - Biker Gang Leader, Knights of Pain
- Conrad Wyeth - Order of Hermes Master, Psychologist
- Rebekkah - Mage, Died
- Lord Steel, the Duke of Hate - Maeljin Incarna
- Kiyoshi Toda - Hands of Hope Chantry Mage
- Tom Ho Pak - Order of Hermes, Hands of Hope Chantry Mage
- Ihuanocuatlo - Mage, Vali Shallar
- Shi-Han - Akashic Brotherhood Mage, Vali Shallar
- Mr. Lorris - Technocratic Mage
- Jenni Smith's Clone
- Pattern-Clone
- Porthos Fitz-Empress - Mage
Terminology[]
Acolyte, Ahl-i-Batin, Akashic Brotherhood, Albany, Amalgam, America, Agent, Armature, Artificial Intelligence, Ascension, Ascension War, Assistant, Associate, Autocthonia, Avatar, Awaken/Awakened/Awakening, AW Project, Bane, Bioclones, Blood Rose, Board of Directors, Britain, Cabal, Caine, Cainite, California, Canada, Casey Cabal (Verbena), Celestial Chorus, Cephalopoid, Chantry, Childe, Clan, Clone, Collective, Comptroller, Construct, Convention, Coordinator, Council of Nine Mystick Traditions, Cult of Ecstasy, Cybernaut, Cyborg, Damned, Dark Lord, Deep Umbra, Deep Universe, Digital Web, Disciple, DNA, Do (The Creeping Mongoose, Cunning Hawk, Serpent's Teeth), Doissetep, Dragon Scale, Dreamspeakers, Drahma, Dynamic Reality, Dynamic Security (NWO front corporation), Earth, EcoR, Egypt, Elder, Endron Interational, England, Enlightened, Entropy, Europe, Euthanatos, Everwell Chemicals, Everwell Corporation, First Team, France, Fukuoka Chantry House, Gaia, Garou, Gateway, Gauntlet, Giovanni, Glade, Grand Convocation, Gray Collective, Gray Man, Grove, Guardian, Hands of Hope Chantry (Los Angeles), HIT Mark, HIT Mark V, HIT Mark VI, Hive Mind, Hong Kong, Horizon, Horizon Realm, Horizon War, Inner Circle, Investigator, Irish Eyes Enterprises, Italy, Iteration X, Jabhi-yazer (Vali Shallar Guardians), Kindred, Knights of Pain (Biker Gang), Labyrinth, Lake Ontario, Life, Los Angeles, Madron (Ecological Gang), Maeljin Incarna, Mage, Magic/Magick, Malfeas, Man in Gray, Marauder, Masses, Master, Men in Black, Method Specialist, Mexico City, Mausoleum, Minneapolis, Mission Specialist, Mystick, Nanotecnology, Naples, Near Umbra, Nephandi, New World Order, New York, Nine Traditions, Node, Operations Chief, Operatives, Order of Hermes, Paradox, Paradox Spirit, Paris, Pattern, Pattern Realm, Pentex, Pentex Chemicals, Pharmatologist, Prime, Prime Directive, Primium, Procedure, Progenitors, Programmer, Psychic, Puerto Rico, Quintessence, Rachar (Vali Shallar Cabal), Random Elements, Reality, Reality Deviant, Realm, Research Director, Rituals, Rochester, Rollins Winery, Sauroid, Science, Scream and Whisper (Shadow's Twin Swords), Seekers of Truth Cabal, Shade Realms, Shade Realm of Forces, Shard Realms, Sire, Sleeper, Solificati, Sons of Ether, Sorcerer, Soul, Spell, Spellcasters, Spirit, Spirit Realm, Static Reality, Statis, Supervisor, Switzerland, Symposium, Syndicate, Syracuse, Syracuse Collective, Syracuse Construct, Talisman, Tapestry, Tass, Technician, Technocracy, Technocratic Union, Technocrats, Technomancer, Tellurian, Time Table, Tokyo, Tradition, Triumvirate, Umbra, Undead, Unity, Vali Shallar, Vampire, Venice, Verbena, Vesuvius Inc., Virtual Adepts, Vitae, Void Engineers, Watkins Glen gorge, Werewolves, Wizard, Wyck, Wyrm,
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