By Lindsay Woodcock, Lynn Davis
A brand new international Awaits
All round, a brand new international blossoms. One second, you had a dreary way of life. the following, you stumbled on the beauty of a universe formed at your whim. be cautious, although: with fabulous energy comes incalculable chance. The Traditions, the Technocracy, even vampires, ghosts and werewolves all need a piece of you. If you're going to outlive and discover ways to use your strength, you'd greater pay attention up. Time for the demanding street, apprentice.
The Magicks in You
Now you could adventure play as a newly woke up mage at the street to energy. The pitfalls are many, however the rewards of enlightenment are countless. With the recent features and rotes during this booklet, you could transcend your previous mortal existence to turn into whatever new. find out how the several magickal teams educate their apprentices, and the way to run a chronicle beginning at the start of all of it.
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Some students may be suited for such affiliation from the beginning of their public school careers, but most of the recruits are probably manipulated, twisted or tricked into their initiations. The idea of the clone-scientists' initiation procedures alone is enough to turn one's stomach. Whatever the procedure or lack thereof, though, all mages with any group affiliation must undergo some kind of test or initiation to become part of the group. It's as much a social custom as an arcane ritual. Even in play groups in kindergartens and departments in office buildings, people must somehow prove themselves interested and worthwhile to associate in any meaningful way with other people.
That is not to say, however, that orphans aren't as experienced or as knowledgeable as their counterparts — on the contrary, orphan instructors are often more experienced and wiser in the ways of magic in the larger world. ) Life and lessons are both more scattered and more intense for orphan apprentices, and the way the student learns is very different from the traditional course of education. Schoolin' Orphans rarely have any kind of formal instruction in occult history or language. It's just not applicable to many aspects of life as a mage who's essentially on his own as far as other mages go.
Since they're primarily experiential, an initiation is some sort of shared experience that confirms the student's place in choosing his own new grounds for study. Whether this is a jam session, a steak dinner or mind-blowing sex depends on the mentor's style. Dreamspeakers: These folks do often hold onto their older ritualistic initiations. Depending upon how rigid the mentor is, initiation can be anything from a quick pow-wow with the spirits to a days-long ordeal of vision quests, travel, fasting, sweat lodges, tattoos and even ritual scars or beatings.