Time of Judgment 3: Judgment Day is the third book in the Time of Judgment Trilogy, and the final novel for Mage: The Ascension. Judgment Day is set against a backdrop of Armageddon and Ascension. The novel ties into the game rulebook Ascension and, loosely, to the other books published under the Time of Judgment banner. The three protagonists of the novel are the Dreamspeaker mage Robert Blanclege, the Iterator Technocrat William Albacastle, and the Wu-Keng mage Ming Xian, with a few chapters from the point-of-view of the Virtual Adept Oracle Dante.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- Ascension Is At Hand
- A war for reality has raged unabated for centuries between mages of the mystical Nine Traditions and the authoritarian and rational Technocratic Union. Each side has held up the standard of universal enlightenment, but each has fractured and cracked the very nature of reality in a constant quest for victory. Now, as entropy takes a final hold and forced ascension envelops the universe, there remains only for the weight of sins to be judged before all returns to its primal state.
- Three disparate mages are thrust center stage in this process by agents of the mysterious Rogue Council. Can the fate of Creation lie in their hands?
- Mage: Judgment Day is the final act of the Time of Judgment, telling the story of a wide-ranging Armageddon among the supernatural entities of the World of Darkness.
- Act Three of Three
Contents[]
Part One: Calcination[]
Part Two: Distillation[]
Part Three: Subtiliation[]
Part Four: Projection[]
About the Author[]
Plot[]
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Background Information[]
- Ads at the back of the book include: Vampire: The Clan Novel Saga Omnibuses (Vol. 1: Summer 2003; Vol. 2: Fall 2003; Vol. 3: Spring 2004; Vol. 4: Summer 2004), Dark Ages Clan Novel Series (Tremere: April) and New World of Darkness (VTR: Aug. 2004; WTF: Nov. 2004 and MTAw: Mar. 2005).
Memorable Quotes[]
"Sir, men have predicted the end of the world since the beginning of recorded history. Some say that the first sentence ever spoken was a prophecy of the end. If you mean to tell us that you think the end is nigh, then I mean to tell you that you've joined an often honorable but always wrong throng." - Ming Xian, pg. 207
"This is judgment." ... "Telos, Judgment, is the last act of creation in a universe that is about to end. Each of you is here because you've been marked by one face or another of the tenth sphere and incorporated into its interface with the rest of existence." - Porthos Fitz-Empress, pg. 212
Characters[]
- Robert Blanclege - Dreamspeaker
- Rubbish - Robert's Totem/Spirit
- Ming Xian - Wu-Keng
- Lin - Female Wu-Keng , Xian's Aunt
- Beached Whale - Spirit
- Tareq Omar Belim - Dreamspeaker
- Anders - Dreamspeaker
- Nine Muses - Spirits
- The Mogul - Spirit-Talker, Medium
- Ratatosk - Spirit
- Xoca - Dreamspeaker
- Dr. Kung - Iteration X
- Doc Halloway
- Dana Caruthers
- Rob the Bogman - Drinking Buddy
- Marilyn Gosberger - Dreamspeaker
- Terry Vineces - Ex-Virtual Adept
- Lisung
- Dou - Kingdom of Jade Wraith, Xian's Friend
- Colonel Tan
- Eloine - Verbena
- Mike - Unwitting Mage, Died
- Louie - Unwitting Mage, Died
- Salonikas - Cult of Ecstasy
- Porthos Fitz-Empress - Order of Hermes
- Bernadette - Celestial Chorus
- Estella - Maid
- Lenny
- George Brown - Dreamspeaker, Robert's Friend
- Nicolas "Nick" Rudenault - Cyborg, Iteration X
- Maria - Dreamspeaker
- William Albacastle - Iteration X
- Dante - Virtual Adept Oracle
- The Alchemical Marriage (Robert, William and Xian)
Terminology[]
Acolyte, Agent, AI, Alabama, Albuquerque, Alchemy, America, Ancestors, Ankara, Anthelios (Anti-Sun, Red Eye, Red Star), Apprentice, Aral Sea, Arctic Circle, Armenia, Ascension, Ascension War, Art, Atlanta, Australia, Avatar, Avatar Storm, Awakened, Awakening, Bahrain, Balkans, Bane, Bangladesh, Bani, Benapole, Beijing, Bijela, Blood, Bosnia, Brazil, Britain, Brooklyn, Brussels, Cabal, Cain "Lord of Sin", Category IV, Chantry, Charleston, Chi, Chicago, China, Chongqing, Chorister, Colombia, Columbus, Convention, Correspondence, Corpus, Council of the Nine Traditions, Cult of Ecstasy, Cyberware, Data, Defense Intelligence Agency, Demon, Demon Emperor, Digital Web, Director of Security, Doissetep, Donja Dragunija, Dreamspeakers, Earth, Ebon Dragon, Ectoplasmic Manifestation, Ecuador, Entropy, Essence, Europe, First Cabal, Forces, Flambeau, Freedom Road, Gauntlet, Geneva, Germany, Ghost, Gracacina, Gradacac, Greece, Heaven, Hells, Hematovore Developments Threat Team, Herzegovina, Hollywood, Hong Kong, Hungry Ghost, India, Inner Circle, Inquisition, Inter-Convention Security Procedures Standardization Oversight, Iteration X, Jade Emperor, Judgment Day, Jupiter, Karakalpakistan, Kazakh, Kazakhstan, Kowloon, Labyrinth, Lightning People, Los Angeles, Lu Kavac, Luxembourg, Macondo, Maelstrom, Mage, Magi, Magicians, Magic, Magister, Malfeans, Manhattan, Mars, Masses, Master, Mediterranean, Medium, Memory Palace, Men in Black, Men in White, Mentogou, Mexico, Michigan, Mind, Minister, Mirrorlands, Mobile, Mo i Rana, Moscow, Nebraska, Necromancer, Nephandi, New Cheshire Asylum for the Mentally Ill, New Mexico, New World Order, New York, New York City, Nine Traditions, North America, Norway, Oblivion, The Office of Family Planning, O'Hare, One, Operatives, Orange Beach, Order of Hermes, Order of Reason, Pakistan, Paradigm, Parapsychology, Paris, The Peak Tower, Periphery, Point Pleasant, Procedure, Project Sunburst, Project Ragnarok, Protocol, Psionic, Psychic, Qin Shinhuangdi, Ragnarok, Ragnarok Strat Ops, Raleigh, Raven, Reality, Reality Deviants, Realm, Rogue Council, Roswell, Russia, Sarajevo, Saturn, Scarlet Empress, Scotland, Serbia, Shaanxi Province, Shaman, Shanghai, Silver Cottage, Singapore, Sons of Ether, Soul, Soul Jade, Sphere, Spell, Sphinx, Spirit, Spirit World, Tac Ops, Technician, Technocracy, Technocrat, Technocratic Union, Telman Cay Epidemiology Working Group, Telos, Tennessee, Thousand Hells, Three Gorges Dam, Time, Tokyo, Totem, Traditions, Trondheim, True Name, Tuzla, Umbra, Underworld, Urumqi, Uygur Autonomous Region, Uzbekistan, Vampire (Hematovore, Parametabolic Hematovore, Vampire Virus), Virginia, Virtual Adepts, Void Engineers, Vozrozhdeniya, Wall, Warlock, The Way, Werewolf, West Virginia, Wheel of Ages, Witch, Wizard, Void, Wu Keng, Wu Lung, Xi'an, Xingjian, Xinjiang, Xuanwu district, Yanan, Yang, Yang Spirits, Yellow Springs, Yggdrasil, Yin, Yin Realm, Yin World, Yozi, Yu Huang, Zombies,
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