Setting Information

The Living World of Darkness Mage Venue

In September 2013, something happened in New York.

And nobody knows what was it.

Mages died, others slipped into Quiet, others vanished, and others appeared in several parts of the country without any memories to why they left and what happened before they did.

The Technocracy took up a long extended holiday.

And nobody knows why.

For a month, the Council of Traditions quarantined New York while they investigated, but whatever was happening prevented Scrying and Divinations, and no answers were forthcoming.

There were a lot of theories, from a group of Euthanatos going crazy and going on a rampage of murder, to Demonic assault, to an archmage curse gone wild.

The Order of Hermes was the first to return, unlocking The Diogenes Club grand chantry, which had been sealed magically upon the death of both its Deacon and entire Council of Chancellors. A taskforce of the best and brightest (and more expendable) of the Hermetics was dispatched, with orders to create a War Cabal and investigate first, and secure the city second: with all other Traditions and the Technocracy out of the way, New York was ripe for the taking and ready to become a stronghold of the Order.

However, things weren't that simple: the investigation wasn't shedding any light, the ley-lines were disturbed in ways that no mage had seen before, and rumour had it that the Tremere, ages-old enemies of the Hermetics, had a powerful position in the city. To make things even more complicated, two Archmages were dragged from their contemplations and decided to come to New York: the Mad Time Seer Harold Bambridge, and the Umbral Hunter Lord Apeirion, the Thousandslayer - their motives as ineffable as their power.

And now the other traditions want to return and start their own investigation... -

That was the before times.

With a crack of thunder, and a spell undone, Things have changed.

Now: The worlds have rejoined. fates reconnected. magic and it’s consequences flood back into the Big Apple. Mages reawaken in this world, changed, reborn, resurrected. Hope returns.

For the Mages? New York City Stands reborn. Fresh, and unspoiled. There is time for re-investigating their home, and understanding the changes. Time to fix this city, and make it better. Time for a New Dawn.