[Mage: The Awakening 2nd Ed] Supernatural Denizens of San Diego

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Chronicle: Mage 2: The Dethroned Queen

Venue: Mage: The Awakening 2nd Edition

Chronicle Storyteller: Jerad Sayler

Assistant Storytellers: Hannah Nyland & Alex Van Belkum

                     San Diego: 
             Supernatural Denizens

            Written and designed by Lucas Powell, supplemented by Jerad Sayler

Lord of False Wisdom
Unknown entity that comes to those who are looking for spiritual guidance, using Numina and Influence gets the target to take the most unwise course of action. Appeared after the Battle of El Cortez. A appearing as a dark reflection of Stavros leading others away from enlightenment. The relationship between this entity and Stavros himself is unknown.

Eliot, the Orphan Lord

Eliot, the Orphan Lord
Eliot operates the Stingaree, the go to place for supernaturals, which has been in operation since at least the 1880s. Eliot is of an unknown Supernatural type and all contested challenges fail against him when in the Stingaree. The few times Eliot has emerged to protect his wards he is highly destructive on par with a God. He reminds some of the Specter out of DC Comics. 

The Accordant Spirit CourtsThe Accordant Courts of San Diego have been classified because they are generally amenable to the Awakened. That is not to say that the Accordant Courts are allied or even get along. 

Court of St. James
The leader of the Court of St. James is the City Father of San Diego. He typically appears as a wealthy man. Directly serving him are older spirits, of now forgotten or broken courts. There are a lot of Catholic and Faith spirits in his sway. He has direct control over all public works and historical buildings. He also is a spirit of Aviation.  Under St. James is a host of spirits that embody their respective communities. The Emus of North Park and University Heights, the Neon Dragon of Hillcrest, to the tightfisted spirit of Golden Hills and Banker’s Hill. 

Ruler: St. James, the Spirit of ‘76 
St. James always appears as a man in flight suit from the 1930s. He’s well-built and carries a spear. He has weird moods in which he occasionally appears as a bear. He can be contacted at the Cabrillo National Monument or less frequently at all other historic sites in San Diego. 

Web Crawler

Court: The Silicon Heirs
An upstart court that pushes the limits of their influence. Based primarily out of Silicon Valley they are the spirits of the internet and communications. They have driven out lesser courts and have claimed dominance over entities of innovation.

Court: The Roast & Brew
The Court of innovation in food and beverages. Govern most small non-chain gastronomic delicacies. In conflict with Union of Pitch & Grease.  Micro-Roasters, Micro-Breweries, Gastropubs, Farmer’s Markets, independent local grocers, are part of the Carnitas League, each display a small bronze statue of a pig. It’s become customary for patrons to rub the pig’s head when leaving an establishment. 

Ruler: Carnitas
Carnitas is the leader of the Roast & Brew Court. She appears as a large hog fatted for the slaughter, although anthropomorphized with large black glasses and smell vaguely of bacon, beer and coffee. She’s very ironic. 

The Gargoyle
The spirit patron of Craft Brewing in San Diego appears as a Stone Gargoyle wearing a T-Shirt with an image of himself holding a sign with today’s date on it. 

The Blind Lady
The Blind Lady doesn’t travel in the Shadow much. She sits in her favorite gastropub, the Blindlady Alehouse. She has a table of food in front of her and a half full flight of beers.

Court: The Union of Pitch & Grease
Spirits of Commerce and military. Governs food industry as well. 

Ruler: 32nd Street
One of the most powerful spirits of the Accordant Courts 32nd Street is not a fan of the Pentacle, making his contempt known. He doesn’t usually materialize or take on a form that mage’s would typically recognize. He prefers to inhabit military buildings and the USS Midway. When forced to materialize, he usually appears as a large combat Veteran with a greasy apron. 

Court: Golden Tent Club
Spirits of wealth and oligarchy, recently included spirits associated with Indian Gaming. 

Ruler: The Pines
A gentleman and only a gentlemen. 

The Discordant Spirit Courts
The Discordant Courts are aggressive or violent towards the Awakened.

Lord Sludge

Court: Grotto of Grunge
Court of Sewage and poisoned waters is typically located in the Tijuana Estuary. 

Ruler: Lord Sludge
Appears as bubbling toxic mud. Extremely malicious. 

Notable Vampires of San Diego
The vampires of San Diego once came into direct conflict with the Awakened of San Diego and have largely been driven out of the city.  Three notable leaders remain and have grown in power in the absence of more normal vampire organizations.  They also have suspected ties or allegiances to larger vampire factions in Tijuana.  All three are part of a vampire Covenant known as Belial's Brood.

Mark of Belial's Brood

Belial's Brood: Belial's Brood are a loose confederation of reckless and raucous vampiric Satanists, demon-worshippers and overt miscreants, who exalt in the spread of misery and pain. The Brood claims and preaches that the Damned originate from Hell (the City of Dis) itself and are demons made flesh who should follow the whims of the Beast.  Their goals (spreading wanton misery and violence, heedless of whether or not they expose the existence of vampires) are antithetical to nearly all other Vampire Covenants.

Don Diego del Coronado

A former Conquistador turned during the Night of Tears in Tenochtilan. After the sacking of the city he was embraced and eventually arrived in San Diego. He is fiercely protective of his personal domains and does not care for intruders. He tolerates the mages because he knows they not only outnumber him but could exploit his weakness.  Coronado Island and Imperial Beach are under his sway. He treats the mortals of his land fairly, preferring to be lavished in riches and sin. 

He and his ilk are part of a sub-faction within Belial's Brood know as The Scarlet Rite.  The Rite seek exaltation in the desires of the flesh, known as Hyletics, they are one of the fastest growing factions. Whether through sex, drugs or more obscure pleasures, the satisfaction of desire is all that matters, and all laws, spiritual tenets and lofty aims of apocalypse fall silent at the feet of infernal lust.

Santo Abad Antonio de Tenancingo

An embraced Cristero era Saint Saint Antonio is a religious fanatic. He thrives in the southern parts of San Diego, drawing to him a cult of not only vampires but also mortals. His territories are marked by terror and blood. Vampires skirt the line of open predation of mankind. He claims San Ysidro and Imperial Valley, putting him in near constant conflict with the former Conquistador.  He is a threat to humanity, but the mage’s of San Diego, leave him alone as killing him would also result in the deaths of many others. However, the mage’s do occasionally cull his brood. 

His brood is part of a Belial's Brood faction known as The Pandemonium.  The Antinomians focus primarily on flesh and blood. Whether mortifying their own flesh through ritual branding, scarification or elaborate tattoos or meticulously ritually mutilating sacrificial victims, most Antinomians understand the flesh as the throne and cathedral of the Dark Lord himself. They are one of the most ancient and open factions of the Brood and their rites are especially violent.

Beyg Mandirali abdul Aziz

In the dawn of the Eternal Empire Beyg Mandirali oversaw the eastern lands of the Empire. He was a mighty sorcerer, but was afraid of his own death. He squandered his personal wealth to bind the balm of immortality. He partly succeeded, he was made immortal, he was a lich but still damned to the night like all other vampires. He was driven from his lands, ever westward. As the Ottoman Empire fell he crossed the Atlantic. Vampires and mages alike drove him further and further east until he arrived at the ocean.

Beyg Mandirali is a vampire, undoubtedly. He feeds off the spiritual energy of the land and the blood of its inhabitants. But beyond that he is apart from the other vampires. The lands of Otay Mesa, *his* lands, are spiritually bereft of any power. They are bleak wastelands with the exception of his grand manse. Mages who have interacted with him say he radiates spiritual power, like a living Locus/Hallow of blood. He is attended to by a host of demonic spirits like djinn and efreet as well as naturae bound to his service.

Even other vampires aren't sure what he is.  He is suspected to be a member of a lost vampire bloodline Tremere or some other form of Tremere Lich.  Regardless, he also claims affiliation with one of the Hexons of the Brood known as The Nameless.  The Nameless is perhaps the quintessential embodiment of the pneuma cult, focusing as the faction does on the hegemony of the spirit over the flesh, the triumph of the will over the body. For the Nameless, everything is possible, and thus prioritized, under will. They believe in the return of the archdemon Belial's and his corruption and destruction of mankind.