Category
Principium Paradoxi
Overview
This is a Mage: The Ascension (20th Anniversary/5th Edition) Chronicle which based in Hampshire in the United Kingdom though due to nature of this Chronicle it could be run for types of groups including Vampires and even Changelings.
The players themselves could come together for various reasons or even the fact that they are residents of Hampshire.
Setting
The chronicle is set in county of Hampshire in the United Kingdom which is small microcosm of the worldwide battles between the Technocratic Union and Traditions for the heart and souls of the sleepers.
It seams that Hampshire itself is a backwater of the Ascension War and battles between the supernatural beings including Changelings, Vampires and even rarer Werewolves. It feels like the world has passed the county by and its supernatural inhabitants are still fighting same old wars they have been fighting for centuries.
In turn most of the world is far too busy with its own battles to notice or even care about Hampshire any more though this could be a fatal mistake to make as some very dark forces stir in the county one of which could potentially destroy the world as we know it.
Though saying that the major players in Hampshire are the Technocratic Union who have a vision of turning the county into an outpost of Technocracy on Earth in so much a place of futuristic technology supported by an ordered society with themselves ruling and guiding it to bright future for some. Though saying that their plans at moment seam to be a pipe dream as the operation to these plans have the upper hand but the leaders of Technocratic Union are very determined and focused.
So at the start the players are wallowing in this backwater though the deeper they look into it the darker the place looks.
Why Hampshire?
It is a quiet county in the south of England whose time passed a long time ago in so much its county city Winchester was the capital of England before the nobility and merchants moved the capital to London.
Though saying this it still has a strong maritime tradition with Portsmouth and Southampton though once again time has passed them by as other ports have become far more important and cut backs of the Royal Navy by successive British governments.
It may have been passed by but Hampshire is not down and out and a small microcosm of battles between supernatural beings still are going on fed by the counties rich history and myths. Somewhere within the county there is still one of the last Dragons on Earth who watches the world with an inhuman detachment.
[A Side Note: I lived in Basingstoke in Hampshire for over 10 years and found the place very grey and uninspiring compared to likes of London even Birmingham. It always stuck me that world had passed Basingstoke by even only remembered it for the fact it only had one set of traffic lights and lots of roundabouts.This is the inspiration for this Chronicle and its background.]
Player Characters
The player characters below are playing in this Chronicle:
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