Character Creation

Step 1: Inspiration

Start with a concept of who your character was before they Awakened. Pick a simple word, like artist, teacher, bum, businesswoman, etc. A general label that you can hang onto the character easily is good.

Tradition

Pick the kind of mage your character became.

Shortlist of the Traditions:

• Akashic Brotherhood - Mystical martial artists. Specialty sphere: Mind
• Celestial Chorus - Singers of divinity. Specialty sphere: Prime.
• Cult of Ecstatsy - Seers who dance and seek pleasure. Specialty sphere: Time.
• Dreamspeakers - Spiritual naturalists. Specialty sphere: Spirit.
• Euthanatos - Balance seekers who relieve suffering. Specialty sphere: Entropy.
• Order of Hermes - Specialists of a thousand years. Specialty sphere: Force.
• Sons of Ether - Scientists of magic. Specialty sphere: Matter.
• Verbena - Rememberers of old rites and cycles of nature. Specialty sphere: Life.
• Virtual Adepts - Hackers of the information age. Specialty sphere: Correspondence.
• Hollow Ones - Nihilistic goth mages. Specialty sphere: None.
• Orphans - Mages who Awakened without guidance or mentorship. Specialty sphere: Any one.

Nature and Demeanor

Nature is a foundation of your character's internal drives and desires.

Demeanor is how that character expresses theirself and navigates the world.

Avatar Essence

An Awakened mage has an Avatar attached to their soul. The Avatar's Essence determines their view magical goals for the mage.

Pick one of the following Avatar Essences:

• Dynamic - The Avatar seeks endless change and the birth of new forms.
• Pattern - The Avatar enforces conformity and reinforces existing structure carefully.
• Primordial - The Avatar destroys old forms and sows chaos to bring about renewal and rebirth.
• Questing - The Avatar builds upon a series of experiences to reach some eventual goal.