Ascendancy
an Immortal and Broken Machine
"Patience is a virtue best left to God." - the Knights of Saint Adrian
I want you to imagine a world not that unlike our own.
Now think back to '73. We're just out of the swinging 60s, the atom is under control but the cold war is not. Vietnam is on fire and we're threatening to torch the rest of the world in nuclear fire. Perhaps less like our world are the forces boiling below our surface. Rumours and myth have always persisted, but most no longer believe in monsters and the supernatural, or atleast do so openly for fear of being laughed at. They however exist. Not all myths are truth though they do share a kernel with reality, and quite a few are correct to begin with even if they don't have the right details. If you can think it and you live long enough you might see the real thing. Never ending... Never silent... Never alone...
The unnatural and dead walk the streets amongst us, making of us prey, but we are not completely without hope in these times. Fairies, Demons, Spirits, Magi, Walking Dead, Vampires, Lycans, Horrors, Mutants, Angels, Post-Modern Prometheans, etc. You get the idea. ; Monsters and creatures of all stripes. Known to man in one time or another, recognizably human at their core or otherwise. Though the far monstrous, divorced from us long ago, exist in multitudes (as do the gods and ancient primordials). The world is straining under the vast supernatural energy and myth boiling under the surface and the dam is about to break loose if things continue as they are. And then the Exalted came back, between the Wyld Hunt of old and government kill squads it was only a matter of time before that erupted. Thankfully most of them were already proficient in silence and deception.
So, when did this all start? Was it the mages and hunter cell that broadcasted the execution of the Horror Queens in Argentina on s hacked broadcast? Maybe it was the Solars who tried to take over LA and the Valkyries executing supernaturals in the street? The Vampire revolt in Louisiana? The Antediluvian waking up in Egypt? The Russian Abyssals that declared war on the Soviets? Operation Unconquered, when Karotechia tried to turn Iran into a Shadowland to drag an army of dead from the underworld and turn the tide in the war three decades ago?
So. Where do you come into this, and where is the hope of better times? Exaltations of the old world, lycans, and orders of hunters continue to stalk the world pushing back the darkness and as the darkness is forced into the open so are they. Champions of Man and God, breakers of the primordials and lawbringers of the world. Not that you need be one of them, just that you're so far beyond the common man that law no longer applies to you and you might as well make the same claims they once held. You hold the sledgehammer before the mirrored glass of the masquerade, even if you're not the one breaking it. You have that power, and you will be the one to pick up the pieces when someone eventually does break it. Whether ancient or newly born into this mess, you are uniquely powerful and in a position to rebuild when it does happen. What are you, why are you here, and what would you reforge us as?
The end is soon, but Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night. The world is what you make of it, and the optimism behind us can propel us through these dark times.
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Ascendancy: an Immortal and Broken Machine
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