Mage

The Power to Remake the World

In an age long gone, mortals dethroned the gods and seized the heavens for their own. And for it, they were flung down into the world of clay, their minds clouded by ignorance. Only a bare few remember their birthright - the power of magic. If they cannot claim the heavens, they will make their own kingdoms on Earth.

A Storytelling Game of Modern Sorcery

A Sheet for Everything

The Awakened struggle to rebuild their societies and carve out their own kingdoms on Earth. Witch, technomancer, shaman - which one are you?

A Play Aid for Mage: The Awakening:

Your Lucky Dice

Take your character's fate into your own hands with these special dice made especially for Mage: The Awakening. Will you achieve great feats or suffer at the whim of chance?

A Play Aid for Mage: The Awakening:

All You Need Before Your Eyes

There's nothing more frustrating for a Mage: The Awakening Storyteller than searching for that one rule during a game. Well, that and needing to use a spell and not having enough Quintessence. At least we can solve the first one.

A Play Aid for Mage: The Awakening

Listen. Can you hear it? The thunder of your soul, roaring within the thousand thousand worlds that exist within you.

Gods are there, inside you. Worlds of dream and knowledge, chains of purest gold that bind you to each and every other mind that walks this earth.

Sink beneath this base flesh and find the noble self within. Read the words written on your soul. Speak the names you find there. Set yourself free. — Aristarchus, Moros lorekeeper of the Adamantine Arrow

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Suffer Not the Witch

Only a few have the vision to see magic for what it is — anathema. Those who wield this unnatural power must be converted or destroyed, lest they unravel the fabric of the world itself. This is the crusade of the few, the zealous — the Banishers.

A Character Book for Mage: The Awakening™

That Old Black Magic

The first European mages to arrive in New England made dark compacts and concords that still affect the region to this day. From ancient oaths signed in blood to the dying curses of witches, Boston’s modern mages are bound by fates not of their own making. The region’s history weighs heavily on the shoulders of all — even from beyond the grave.

A Sourcebook for Mage: The Awakening™

Words of Power

Hidden within the covers of innocuous books, written in fire on pages of brass, uttered in ancient tongues on mysterious recordings — the power of the Supernal can be trapped in physical form. For those who unlock the secrets of the grimoires, great majesty and great peril await.

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From beyond, they come. They are spawned of That Which Is Not, and they hunger for That Which Is. There are a thousand-thousand blasphemies reflected into the gaze of the Abyss, and a thousand-thousand more beyond sight. One by one, slithering in secret, they crawl into the world. The day will come when the Awakened look up from their tomes and ruins and petty factionalism, and wonder where all the light in the world has gone. But it will be too late, then. --Govannon, Guardian of the Veil, archivist of Abyssal manifestations.

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The Major Arcana

Each key, each trump, is a step along the path of the mage. From the dangerous ignorance of the Fool to the completion of the World, each card holds a secret. Seek Justice, pursue Strength, trick the Devil, and defy Death — the cards will show you the way.

A Chronicle Book for Mage: The Awakening™

"Who are we? Don't ask for secrets if you cannot keep them. Do you wish to take this step? Good. We are the secret police of the Awakened, charged with our task by the kings of lost Atlantis. We watch and judge the Gifted for any sign of malpractice of their Art, for we knew of old that the Abyssal taint of miscast spells risks the very universe. To remain pure, magic must be kept secret - and we make sure it stays that way." -- Coatlicue, famulus Susceptor of the order

Guardians of the Veil is a 224 page hardcover supplement for Mage: The Awakening.

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Heritage of the Exiles

After the Fall of Atlantis, mages wandered as exiles in the wilderness, forced to eke a living without the protection of their grand city. With new eyes, they explored the world they had so long ignored, unhindered by Atlantean creed. They discovered that magic was not born in Atlantis — it had always existed, hidden in the land itself. Sometimes, even Sleepers knew more of it than mages. From this primal knowledge, the exiles created legacies whose names have reverberated throughout time.

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Mages aspire to greatness, and none more so than those who craft their souls with the techniques of the sublime—legacies that invoke awe and terror. Legacies: The Sublime details 13 all-new legacies, the specialized magical paths that result from soul-shaping and grant unique mystical attainments. Each legacy features a detailed history and organization along with its own unique attainments. Legacies: The Sublime also provides complete rules for designing your own legacies.

"You who would harness thunder to the chariot of your will and wield the winds with your breath - do you think these things are owed to you? That they will yield to the investigations of your mind, as a ripe fruit to the knife? Does the water obey the stone? No, the water, with its supple flow, carves the stone.

So does magic carve your soul.

As the sea hides its secrets from the land, so magic cloaks itself, revealing its depths only to those who plunge in. The Temple of the Mysteries lies sunk deep below these torrents, under the sediment of centuries. Can you hold your breath long enough to dig it out?" - The Tyrian, rumored archmaster

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Glimpses of a Higher World

When a mage Awakens, she touches one of the five legendary Watchtowers. The Atlantean kings erected these mystical spires in ages past to call out to slumbering souls, beckoning them to claim their birthright: the power of magic.

A Guide to Paths for Mage: The Awakening™

The Fractured Prism

The higher truths of the Supernal World are constantly broadcast down into the Fallen World, distorted into a thousand different forms — such as the occult beliefs of Sleepers throughout the world. A mage versed in these traditions can see past the Sleeper’s occult trappings to the Supernal truth, like a faint light that is invisible to the blind. Privy to such culture-bound magical secrets, these mages wield power unknown to others.

A sourcebook for Mage: The Awakening™

"The Exarchs are real.

The Dethroned Queen, cast out of the Heavens by wiser gods than she, proves they’re real. You can doubt her existence, but doing so only proves your ignorance.

The Dethroned Queen was real. Soon you’ll see. Soon you’ll get it. Then you’ll believe." — Jonah Reed, Seer of the Throne, prior to his execution.

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Ivory Towers Reaching for the Heavens

The Fallen World resists the efforts of mages to impose higher realities onto the mundane laws of nature. The very disbelief of Sleeper souls can unravel spells, but mages can build strongholds that establish a foothold for their Supernal Realms. In these sacred sites, mages can perform wonders akin to those of their Atlantean ancestors.

A sourcebook for Mage: The Awakening

Some Things Are Best Left Forgotten

The exiles of Atlantis hoarded their artifacts in magically sealed and guarded redoubts, hidden from Sleepers and common spells. The masters of these storehouses are long gone, but their enchantments remain, enigmas to confound all who would seek them — but seek them some do. Mages obsessed with the power of the ancients scour the material and Shadow realms for these places, ignorant of the things that still guard them. Few of these explorers ever return.

A chronicle book for Mage: The Awakening™

The Burden of Vision

It’s not about the lust for power. It’s about the need for a grander world. Enlightenment is the birthright of all mankind; the Supernal is there for all to grasp. Do you have a plan to take us there? No? Then step back and let us show you the way.

A Character Book for Mage: The Awakening™. This book includes:

The Dragon’s Talon

Existence is war. The Exarchs’ power cannot be thrown off by calm words and gentle gestures. The Banishers won’t relent if they see you’re harmless. Sometimes you need to fight harder than you’ve ever fought before — swift and unbreakable, like arrows made of adamantine.

A Character Book for Mage: The Awakening™

Modern Magic, Modern Myths

Rethink it. Rethink what you know about magic. About human history. About what's real and what's myth. The Free Council is questioning everything. Sometimes this leads to new breakthroughs in sorcery. Sometimes this leads to disaster. What it never creates… is trust.

An Order book for Mage: The Awakening™

Sapientia Ex Libris

Every day, the Abyss claims more Supernal knowledge, more lore is lost to the steady crumbling of history and to the mortality of the Awakened. There are those who claim that mages should be looking to the future, but how can they, when they have allowed so much of the past to be lost already? What good does new avenues of learning do if they cannot hold onto what is already known?

The Mysterium stands against that crumbling and preserves the lore of the scions of Atlantis. Whether they are dedicated scholars peering into long-forgetten secrets in dusty libraries or two-fisted adventurers looking for traces of the Supernal in mankind’s archaeology, the Awakened owe the Mysterium much for the preservation of their lore.

An Order book for Mage: The Awakening™