Mage the Ascension Lore: The Traditions

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  • Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2024
  • An introduction to the nine modern Traditions of the tabletop roleplaying game, Mage: the Ascension. The Traditions are magical groups who hold sets on the Council of Mystick Traditions, the protectors of True Magick on the world against the onslaught of Paradox and Paradigm.
    00:53 The Akashic Brotherhood
    02:29 The Celestial Chorus
    04:46 The Cult of Ecstasy
    06:31 The Dreamspeakers
    08:22 The Euthanatos
    10:33 The Order of Hermes
    12:48 The Sons of Ether
    14:51 The Verbena
    16:22 The Virtual Adepts
    17:37 The Hollow Ones

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  • @KaiserAfini
    @KaiserAfini 2 года назад +60

    *Akashic Brotherhood:* We are enlightened warriors who are very bad at being pacifists
    *Celestial Chorus:* We believe in the Unity of faith but have trouble reconciling all its expressions
    *Cult of Ecstasy:* We are surprisingly wise but we have trouble staying in the moment
    *Dreamspeakers:* We know the borders between dreams and reality are thin, but only a skilled mediator can convince them to cross over to our aid
    *Euthanathos:* We are the pruners that allow karma to grow healthy, but we find the call of your grave hard to resist
    *Order of Hermes:* We make the biggest messes but are peerless at standardizing magical knowledge
    *Sons of Ether:* The creative mind can invent anything, but scalability is not our forte
    *Verbena:* We are enduring and accomplish the impossible by natural might, but what we ask you to sacrifice may be more than you were willing to pay
    *Virtual Adepts:* We manipulate the illusory universe's code to make a better reality, too bad our methods are difficult to understand and very expensive
    *Hollow Ones:* Whatever works, works, don't ask us for a consistent theory

  • @RyanTheScar
    @RyanTheScar 2 года назад +44

    Mage lore is always on high demand! Thanks for quenching my thirst.

  • @ikariyabiollante867
    @ikariyabiollante867 7 месяцев назад +5

    Tremere when they see a Hermetic in their domain: ah fuck
    Toreador when they see a Hollow One in their domain: ah fuck yeah

  • @Nyrufa
    @Nyrufa 6 месяцев назад +4

    Given how the objective of Ascension is to increase your knowledge and power until you reach a state of godhood, you could easily reflavor the Akashic Brotherhood as a Cultivation story.

  • @xenoblad
    @xenoblad 2 года назад +10

    Akashic mage: “I cast magically enhanced fist”

  • @zackkilgore528
    @zackkilgore528 2 года назад +22

    Keep making content, not throwing shade at anyone but you’re quite the refresher from some of the other World of Darkness lore channels

  • @thebealers2102
    @thebealers2102 2 года назад +5

    Of all the settings in WoD I always loved Mage but never got a chance to run or play a game in it. Old school stuff still shines with originality and rad possibilities.
    Great vids and channel

  • @mattd7695
    @mattd7695 2 года назад +7

    Love these summaries, great for helping knew people get the gist of who they can play as.

  • @witoldkrasuski2784
    @witoldkrasuski2784 Год назад +2

    Thank you for that, Sir. I'm dusting off Mage since we were not playing it since highschool and this is a nice ease back into the concept for my players.

  • @Sempermortis84
    @Sempermortis84 2 года назад +5

    Glad to see you chipping away at mage! One of my favorite! Dreamspeaker history is great.

  • @rfckolive5382
    @rfckolive5382 2 года назад +3

    I was just looking into this a couple days ago for an NPC in my VTM chronicle. Good timing!

  • @elainebundgaard3850
    @elainebundgaard3850 2 года назад +7

    I'm just now learning to GM WoD games, starting with mage, and your videos are SO helpful for learning the lore

  • @zackkilgore528
    @zackkilgore528 2 года назад +6

    I imagine a group of mages who daylight as a British rock band in the 80s, like Def Leppard, who defend themselves from vampires, werewolves, the technocracy, and Society of Leopold in their down time.

  • @RobCrowley85
    @RobCrowley85 Год назад +2

    As per the infamous Mr Welch list, a Verbena weighs more than a duck.

  • @ShmilS
    @ShmilS 2 года назад +2

    Great video as always. Mage always interested me but I never had the time (and courage) to dive into the lore.

  • @almightytallestred
    @almightytallestred 2 года назад

    Best World Of Darkness Lore channel here on RUclips. By far. Always happy when I see a new one in my notifications.

  • @Posturtle
    @Posturtle 2 года назад +7

    I would argue that the origins of the Hollow Ones date more back to the early Romantics of the 19th Century. In my current game set in 1895, they are under serious consideration for joining the Traditions (future betrayal notwithstanding). Of the Traditions you haven't covered in full videos so far, I'd love to see the Verbena or Sahajiya covered.

  • @michaelkimberling7307
    @michaelkimberling7307 2 года назад +1

    I once played a ecstatic who was a traveling hypnotist of the “mundane” variety. Focused pretty heavily into the mind sphere

  • @danny_decheeto8300
    @danny_decheeto8300 2 года назад

    Always cool to see another upload

  • @TomasMosca
    @TomasMosca 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for this video!

  • @hauptmannfloete1106
    @hauptmannfloete1106 7 месяцев назад +2

    Nice. Is that the black mirror soundtrack?

  • @diamondmetal3062
    @diamondmetal3062 Год назад +1

    The Traditions are literally the Shadow Wizard Money Gang

  • @TheKagar
    @TheKagar Год назад

    Thank you for Upload :)

  • @philipperobinson5260
    @philipperobinson5260 2 года назад

    I love mage lore thank you for another great video.

  • @caioteixeira1541
    @caioteixeira1541 2 года назад +1

    I recently discovered your channel. Please keep doing it. Do you happen to have it on Spotify or some other platform? I absolutely love your mage and wraith videos. Thank you.

  • @bumblingbureaucrat6110
    @bumblingbureaucrat6110 2 года назад +3

    Will you ever do the Taftani?

  • @yetipotato8567
    @yetipotato8567 2 года назад

    I really like the world of darkness take on supernatural

  • @Jaseoffire
    @Jaseoffire 2 года назад +2

    Your audio sounds a little rough, but otherwise, good video.

  • @skeletonking4119
    @skeletonking4119 2 года назад +4

    what hapeen to the mages in the morden night?

    • @zackkilgore528
      @zackkilgore528 2 года назад +5

      They kinda degenerated into either hippies, isolated compound folks, “wiccan”-esque groups and “neo-pagan”-esque groups. In modern Mage the traditional mages are on the back foot and unlikely to recover as the world around them becomes more and more secular. The Technocracy (Tech Mages essentially) run the show now and while things are certainly not perfect even from their perspective it’s certainly their world order and they have a vested interest in protecting it from those who oppose be-it vampires, demons, werewolves, or other mages

    • @lazarofstygia2241
      @lazarofstygia2241  2 года назад +5

      They fought a war for control of reality and lost. Vae victus.

  • @justinross4109
    @justinross4109 2 года назад

    Can we get top 10 mages from each tradition?

    • @lazarofstygia2241
      @lazarofstygia2241  2 года назад +1

      I would have to do some digging to get to 10, but it's certainly a possibility.

  • @shaftlamer
    @shaftlamer 2 года назад +1

    What's with the audio?

  • @Kingneo0053
    @Kingneo0053 Год назад +1

    Comment for the algorithm

  • @chainsawsubtlety9828
    @chainsawsubtlety9828 2 года назад +3

    SCIENCE!

  • @Parktrizzle
    @Parktrizzle 2 месяца назад

    Bro, edit this.

  • @gnumann64
    @gnumann64 2 года назад +1

    I like your videos, but you need a better microphone. 😅