Out of Character (OOC):
Chronicle: Mage 2: The Dethroned Queen
Venue: Mage: The Awakening 2nd Edition
Chronicle Storyteller: Jerad Sayler
Assistant Storytellers: Hannah Nyland & Alex Van Belkum
Los Angeles: A City on Fire
Common Awakened Knowledge of LA
Los Angeles: A City on Fire
Common Awakened Knowledge of LA
Written and designed by Lucas Powell & Jerad Sayler
Los Angeles City Building Posts:
Los Angeles was lost to the Awakened in 1994. Her downfall
was heralded by one of the most devastating earthquakes California has faced.
Before her downfall Los Angeles was a Consilium constantly at war. It’s a city
that harbors 14 million souls, the size of the Consilium was nigh unmanageable
and the Pentacle struggled against vampires, Scelesti, and Reapers. Even the
Seers of the Throne were constantly struggling in a city of that size.
In 1994 though, something happened, something truly
terrible. The eldest and wisest of the Awakened died seemingly overnight for
both the Pentacle and the Seers of the Throne. Reports of refugees, none of
which had achieved Discipleship or higher in any Arcana report that the city
felt as if it was on fire, that something deep below welled up over the city
like a great tidal wave, a massive conflagration. Other reports state that fire
fell from the skies, that angels of brilliant light seeding fire into the skies
above Los Angeles. Regardless of the truth, one thing remains, that night Los Angeles
burned for the Awakened.
One of the most disrupted locations was the Santa Monica Freeway (interstate 10), which disrupted the occulted car-traversed prayer wheel that served as a major piece of a God-Machine Occult Matrix. The layers of Infrastructure involving actual man-made infrastructure (roads, waterways, and power grid), has never been the same...
Los Angeles was lost to the Awakened in 1994. Her downfall
was heralded by one of the most devastating earthquakes California has faced.
Before her downfall Los Angeles was a Consilium constantly at war. It’s a city
that harbors 14 million souls, the size of the Consilium was nigh unmanageable
and the Pentacle struggled against vampires, Scelesti, and Reapers. Even the
Seers of the Throne were constantly struggling in a city of that size.
In 1994 though, something happened, something truly
terrible. The eldest and wisest of the Awakened died seemingly overnight for
both the Pentacle and the Seers of the Throne. Reports of refugees, none of
which had achieved Discipleship or higher in any Arcana report that the city
felt as if it was on fire, that something deep below welled up over the city
like a great tidal wave, a massive conflagration. Other reports state that fire
fell from the skies, that angels of brilliant light seeding fire into the skies
above Los Angeles. Regardless of the truth, one thing remains, that night Los Angeles
burned for the Awakened.
One of the most disrupted locations was the Santa Monica Freeway (interstate 10), which disrupted the occulted car-traversed prayer wheel that served as a major piece of a God-Machine Occult Matrix. The layers of Infrastructure involving actual man-made infrastructure (roads, waterways, and power grid), has never been the same...
The Pacific Rim Mystery: The Ring of Fire
Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
The Ring of Fire encompasses the entire Pacific Rim. At the
most southern end of the Ring of Fire sits two mountains, Mt. Erebus and Mt.
Terror in Antarctica. Mt. Erebus is an active volcano that burns with Azothic Fire in the
Shadow. Awakened have never been able to scale its peak nor understand why the
mountain is so dangerous to them. The problem though is truly ancient and
tablets indicate that the first Consliums established along the Ring of Fire
were intended to somehow ensure Mt. Erebus never erupted. Somehow the very
establishment of Consiliums is antithetical to whatever inhabits the icy
volcano, but it’s not without power. As the centuries passed Consiliums fell
allowing Mt. Erebus to extend its power, and when Consiliums rose that power
ebbed, but not entirely.
Known Occult Institutions:
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| Mt. Erebus, Antarctica |
The Ring of Fire encompasses the entire Pacific Rim. At the
most southern end of the Ring of Fire sits two mountains, Mt. Erebus and Mt.
Terror in Antarctica. Mt. Erebus is an active volcano that burns with Azothic Fire in the
Shadow. Awakened have never been able to scale its peak nor understand why the
mountain is so dangerous to them. The problem though is truly ancient and
tablets indicate that the first Consliums established along the Ring of Fire
were intended to somehow ensure Mt. Erebus never erupted. Somehow the very
establishment of Consiliums is antithetical to whatever inhabits the icy
volcano, but it’s not without power. As the centuries passed Consiliums fell
allowing Mt. Erebus to extend its power, and when Consiliums rose that power
ebbed, but not entirely.
Some historians in the Mysterium who have had clearance to
study the Ring of Fire posit that somehow Mt. Erebus is tied to other
cataclysmic volcanic explosions—from the Fall of Atlantis, the destruction of
Thera, and even the fall of Pompeii and Herculaneum. There is a paper that
posits that bound within Mt Erebus is the price that was paid for the
construction of the Silver Ladder to the Supernal in the first place.
Los Angeles is not the first city to fall, the Consiliums of
La Paz, Cabo San Lucas, Manila, Auckland, Yokohama, Lima, and Santiago have all
perished in fire and flame under similar circumstance.
Known Occult Institutions:
Known Occult Institutions:
The Black Zodiac
Venice Beach boardwalk
The Black Zodiac
is an occult bookstore that exists in a back alley behind the boardwalk of
Venice Beach. The purveyor of the Black Zodiac is a mage called Fobax whose sad
history brought him only ruin. In seeking to right a wrong and combat the Abyss
Fobax became a Scelestus facing exile from the Mysterium and constant
persecution by the remainder of the Pentacle.
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| Venice Beach boardwalk |
The Black Zodiac
is an occult bookstore that exists in a back alley behind the boardwalk of
Venice Beach. The purveyor of the Black Zodiac is a mage called Fobax whose sad
history brought him only ruin. In seeking to right a wrong and combat the Abyss
Fobax became a Scelestus facing exile from the Mysterium and constant
persecution by the remainder of the Pentacle.
The Black Zodiac exists in a pocket realm maintained by the
twins Suleiman & Marcolf who rarely leave the book store. They have no known affiliation with the Scholomance.
The Fairy Courts
San Diego is ruled by the Fae Courts of the Sun and the Moon. One rules by day and the other by night. They are locked in perpetual warfare with each other. Changelings, the lost escapees of Arcadia and their seasonal courts are trapped in the middle, scraping out an existence by avoiding the Fairy courts and their two Keeper leaders.
Court of the Sun
The Court of the Sun is the court of Shame. They feed off the unclean feelings that people exhibit after doing regretful things. Bujaba, Hound of Sin
The Fae King of the court of the Sun is Bujaba, called the Hound of Sin. He is a beastly creature of blood and accusation. He styles himself a sin-eater, and when the sins of a man become too great Bujaba comes for them and devours them. He is called El Cu Cuy, the Bogeyman.
Court of the Moon
The Court of Disgust. Fae of this court goad people into doing things that disgust them, or just outright disgusting people. Besheba, Queen of Whores
Besheba is the Queen of Whores, the lady of Disgust. She is wretched in her filth. She reeks of the unclean. She is a rampant user of drugs, and her genitals are diseased. She disgusts you, and you disgust yourself because all those who lay eyes on her desire to know her carnally.
Werewolf Packs
The Pedestrian Wolves
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| Pedestrian Wolves |
Klaa’Shaa
Creatures consumed with corrupt and rabid souls. They are driven by primal and base instincts to hunt humans and eat their flesh and drink their blood. Feral and wild cannibals that roam the deep woods of Los Angeles. They do not reason, they feed, they sleep, they repeat. They shun tools and society, living as primitives. There is no gentleness among them. Among their People they speculated to be Bael Hounds.
The UNARIUS Academy of Science
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| Yep, it's like that |
Universal Articulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science (UNARIUS)
The group was founded in February 1954 in Los Angeles, California by Ernest L. Norman (1904–1971) and his wife Ruth E. Norman (1900–1993). The mission of the organization is to heightened awareness of interdimensional science through the book Ernest Norman channeled from the “Widows of Atlantis.”
The Unarians teach that the soul is immortal and that there are five distinct frequencies of the soul, attuning it to the Five Heavens Beyond the Stars. That through this attunement people can achieve regression into their past lives and open themselves to the truth. They also teach that Earth was once the Capitol of a vast space-faring empire, not just Earth but the mystic city of Atlantis. They believe that the Atlanteans still live among humanity today, even though they are wiser and more advanced spiritually than most other humans, although because of violent human tendencies they remain hidden.
In the future, as humans achieve enlightenment, the last 33 Atlanteans on earth will reveal themselves to the world. This revelation will cause a mass spiritual awakening and a reestablishment of Atlantean sciences. A Golden Age will dawn for mankind and humanity will finally be able to leave the earth and establish its own interstellar society.
No Order has taken responsibility for the establishment of the UNARIUS Academy of Sciences. It’s not a Labyrinth for the Guardians of the Veil nor is it a Cryptopoly of the Silver Ladder. The Unarians do not count as Sleeper Witnesses to Awakened Magical if the magic is couched in the sciences of the Unarius Academy of Sciences. Many also exhibit mild psychic powers.
The group was founded in February 1954 in Los Angeles, California by Ernest L. Norman (1904–1971) and his wife Ruth E. Norman (1900–1993). The mission of the organization is to heightened awareness of interdimensional science through the book Ernest Norman channeled from the “Widows of Atlantis.”
The Unarians teach that the soul is immortal and that there are five distinct frequencies of the soul, attuning it to the Five Heavens Beyond the Stars. That through this attunement people can achieve regression into their past lives and open themselves to the truth. They also teach that Earth was once the Capitol of a vast space-faring empire, not just Earth but the mystic city of Atlantis. They believe that the Atlanteans still live among humanity today, even though they are wiser and more advanced spiritually than most other humans, although because of violent human tendencies they remain hidden.
In the future, as humans achieve enlightenment, the last 33 Atlanteans on earth will reveal themselves to the world. This revelation will cause a mass spiritual awakening and a reestablishment of Atlantean sciences. A Golden Age will dawn for mankind and humanity will finally be able to leave the earth and establish its own interstellar society.
No Order has taken responsibility for the establishment of the UNARIUS Academy of Sciences. It’s not a Labyrinth for the Guardians of the Veil nor is it a Cryptopoly of the Silver Ladder. The Unarians do not count as Sleeper Witnesses to Awakened Magical if the magic is couched in the sciences of the Unarius Academy of Sciences. Many also exhibit mild psychic powers.
Malleus Maleficarum (The Witch’s Hammer)
The Hunters of Los Angeles frighteningly organized. Most are spurred by faith in their Vigil, but they are ecumenical and work across faith boundaries to see the worst offenders destroyed. In particular, Malleus Maleficarum has a high-level of activity in the city, possibly because of the loss of law and order in the wake of the 1994 earthquake and the death of countless mages.
The Hunters of Los Angeles frighteningly organized. Most are spurred by faith in their Vigil, but they are ecumenical and work across faith boundaries to see the worst offenders destroyed. In particular, Malleus Maleficarum has a high-level of activity in the city, possibly because of the loss of law and order in the wake of the 1994 earthquake and the death of countless mages.
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| Immaculate Conception Catholic Church |
The Cheiron Group
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| CGHQ, Aon Center |
The Cheiron Group is a conspiracy of hunters that exist as a company dedicated to capturing and experimenting on dark monsters to benefit their own technology and investments. Cheiron has its origins in a small pharmaceutical company founded in Europe in 1904. Its founder, Edward Barrett, taking the name from the legendary centaur who gave man medicine. As the years wore on, the Cheiron Group expanded its horizons by buying up a number of smaller companies to form a multinational conglomerate, until it today has its hand in everything from aspirin to soft drinks. Most famously, Cheiron was involved in a lawsuit in 1999 from a number of religious organizations, particularly Christian ones, charging that the company was involved with Satanic practices. The rumor was believed to come from the company's logo which it had had since its founding: a horned and bearded man wearing a laurel wreath placed over a caduceus. The lawsuits all failed, and Cheiron made a mint from the publicity.
To the public, Cherion is merely another multinational, albeit one that offers affordable medical supplies and pharmaceutical products, even after the lawsuit. Inside the company, there is a different story. Cherion's purpose is to gather and study as many supernatural creatures as they can, often with the same cold, uncaring manner as when they swallow up a smaller company into their conglomerate. For Mages, the group attempts to study and understand what makes them different from normal people, the nature of Awakening, magic and the nature of the soul itself.
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| Los Angeles Temple |
Mormon Hunters, Based out of the Los Angeles Moron Temple. They tend to focus on evil as a consequence of free will and therefore supernatural creatures with agency are guilty of evil when they choose to hurt people.
Opus DeiOpus Dei is an international lay Catholic group whose core ideal is the sanctification of work. But critics and some former members have accused the group of having cult-like practices and promoting a right-wing agenda. Hidden among the Opus Dei are elite hunters of the Catholic Church coming north from Mexico. Most are versed in hunting the plentiful amount of vampires in Mexico and Los Angeles, but are quickly learning to hunt Mages. They are based out of the Tilden Study Center.
Notable Spirits of Los Angeles
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| Q |
Spirit: The Dark Horse - The Dark Horse appears as a man in a suit with a horses head, or strangely as a hippopotamus with a horses head. He always smells of coffee.
Spirit Court: Lady’s Society of the Skies
Seagulls. Greedy fucking seagulls. Eccentric and greedy. Smells really bad too. Also includes pigeons. Oddly enough, also patrons of Widows and Victorian Houses with Widow Walks.
Spirit: Widow Laurie Mew (Ruler of the Society of the Skies) - Widow Mew dresses as a Victorian Lady with an extended parasol. Her favorite color is periwinkle, and her dresses are a mish mash of that color, white, gray, and yellow. She is preoccupied with herself. She really enjoys the Awakened, after all they can give her so much. She constantly tosses feed on to the ground attracting all manner of bird spirits. Her parasol is layered with bird shit and she smell musty and old. Spirit Court: The Movement
Spirits of earth, mud slides and earthquakes.
Spirit: San Andreas (Ruler of the Movement) - A grumbling earth elemental guised as a monk.
Spirit Court: The Parched Hearth Tribe
Spirits of hunger, spirits of thirst, of famine, dehydration and drought. Hamaakhave the Rain Shadow of the Eastern Desert, he is an enemy to civilization and seek to parch the lands.
Spirits of hunger, spirits of thirst, of famine, dehydration and drought. Hamaakhave the Rain Shadow of the Eastern Desert, he is an enemy to civilization and seek to parch the lands.
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| Hamaakhave, The Rain Shadow |
Spirit: Hamaakhave the Rain Shadow (Ruler of the Parched Hearth Tribe) - Hamaakhave doesn’t appear to the mages. Those who have summoned attempted to summon him are usually found mummified.
Spirit Court: Winds of Santana - Spirits that only arrives in summer and early autumn. Violent warrior spirits from the desert.
Donato (Lord of Los Angeles)
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| Donato Tower |
Cults of Agile
When Agile (Ah-ge-lay) was in power he was a cult of personality among the Infernal forces of the city. Rumors say he was the famous Count of St. Germain, that he was Lucifer himself. Others said he was a fallen Seraphim trying to get back to heaven. He was an Archdemon of Hell. Mages speculated that he was a Supernal Being of Pandemonium or the Aether that was trapped on the wrong side of the Celestial Ladder when it exploded. His connections to the Order of Judas stirred speculation that he was one of the Knights of the Blackened Denarius. Whoever he was, Agile is gone. In his wake his Infernal lieutenants, criminal organizations and the vice trade have been in a state of flux ever since. The city of fallen angels has never been in finer form.The Shadow Labyrinth
Under Los Angeles is a network of sewers and strange passages. It is a nexus of winding tunnels and bizarre architecture that can take you to other planes of existence. It is not know if this place, or interconnection of places is some vast Wending or the architecture of some vast machine. What is known is that one can find their way into deep places in the Shadow, vestiges of the Underworld, the Los Angeles Goblin Market and other places in the Hedge, and through even stranger Irises.
Nearby Domains:
Blood & Death: Tijuana
A city over run with Vampires. Abad Antonio manages to stem the flow into the US. The city itself is corrupt, Seers of the Throne sit atop the power pyramid and the lower ranks are filled with vampires and reapers. The Dreamers of the Black Sun make frequent attacks within the city.
Consilium of the Blinding Sun: Phoenix
Phoenix, rival of San Diego. A very conservative Silver Ladder/Guardian city with a Free Council that has its own Polity based out of Tempe.
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