Mage The Awakening Free Council Pdf

[Kenya Ahyet]

TheCouncil of Nine Mystic Traditions, or simply the Traditions, are the default player characters and protagonists in the Mage: The Ascension setting. The Traditions are a collection of magical traditions united by a common theory of magical Spheres, as well as a common purpose: the defense of magic and myth against the oppressive, static and safe Technocratic paradigm of predictability and control.

The council has traditionally maintained a seat for each Sphere, with certain Traditions (the Solificati and Ahl-i-Batin) leaving the council, only to be replaced by newer Traditions (the Sons of Ether and Virtual Adepts).

The Traditions largely formed in reaction to the foundation of the Order of Reason. The Daedaleans considered magi dangerous, and wanted to eliminate magick and other supernatural phenomena from reality, as well as providing the tools for enlightenment into the hands of the common man. This threatened the power structure to which magi (particularly the Order of Hermes) had been accustomed, so they banded together with other magi in order to present a unified front against the Daedalean menace.

In 1470, the Solificati representative, Heylel Teomim, betrayed the other members of the Cabal to the Order of Reason. His reasoning was that only through such a tragedy could the Traditions truly be united. He was correct, to a degree. The other Traditions voted to Gilgul Teomim. Shortly afterwards, the Solificati abandoned the Traditions and disbanded.

Toward the end of the 1800s, the Technocratic Union's Electrodyne Engineers were becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the modus operandi of the Union. In 1904, they abandoned the Technocracy and joined the Traditions as the Sons of Ether, filling the seat of Matter vacated by the Solificati. The Traditions were Nine once again, for the first time in nearly four hundred years.

The Ahl-i-Batin had become increasingly irritated with the Council and their unwillingness to help them defend the Middle East from the depredations of the Technocracy. Sometime during or following World War II, they quietly left the Traditions. Those that noticed assumed they had either been wiped out or had simply vanished.

There are also several cross-Tradition factions to which a mage may claim membership. Members of these factions have likely received training with multiple Traditions and claim membership in several. The Neo-Tradition Reformation Front, for example, is trying to modernise the Council as a whole: its members are often Akashic-Virtual Adepts or Dreamspeaker-Sons of Ether.

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