Fear and the Golden Promise of Tomorrow 450 For the Storyteller: Curiosity and the Remade The Golden Age of Science Fiction runs primarily on two parallel tracks: the wave of futuristic idealism and scientific curiosity that sweeps the United States as science fiction becomes popular, and World War II as a pervasive backdrop that rears its head on the home front with regularity. These go hand in hand, as two major wars back-to-back dismantle any limitations the American people previously imagined existed on what was possible. This era lives and breathes at the intersection of these two tracks and both intersect with the stories and films prominent in this era. Drawing inspiration for Deviant characters and conspiracies, shapeshifters, and weird contemporary spirits directly from period science-fiction stories will hit utopian themes squarely on the head. Storytellers can even pull entire plots from these tales and adapt them to fit the time period, the Chronicles of Darkness, the player characters, and their Aspirations. Conditions Below are a few Conditions Storytellers can introduce in this era to better represent the threats and situations characters might encounter. Futuristic Visionary New technologies and tales of scientific marvels galvanize your character into a flurry of inventiveness. Whenever you take a Build Equipment action (Chronicles of Darkness, p. 100) to create physical objects or repositories that would grant equipment bonuses or other benefits to Enigmas or Science actions, you may resolve this Condition before rolling to gain 8-again on the roll. If you succeed, gain a Willpower point. Possible Sources: Exceptional success Resolution: As above. RADIATION POISONING (PERSISTENT) Your character has been exposed to atomic radiation and suffers radiation poisoning. Symptoms can include nausea and vomiting, anemia, red and blistering skin, dizziness, and seizures. The character suffers from a poison (Chronicles of Darkness, p. 98) with Toxicity based on the severity and duration of her exposure. It deals damage once per scene. She suffers the grave Poisoned Tilt during action scenes instead. In addition, without supernatural healing, damage takes double the time it normally would to heal, and you suffer a −2 to dice pools for all Mental actions. This Condition can be temporary instead if the Storyteller decides the character’s exposure doesn’t warrant the Persistent version. It resolves after the character receives a scene’s worth of medical treatment and a full chapter passes. Resolution: The character receives significant, ongoing medical treatment and either a full story passes, or a full chapter passes and the character increases her Stamina. Beat: The character’s wound penalty increases or she loses consciousness due to damage from this Condition. For the Storyteller: Narrating a Crossover Werewolves and Deviants can appear in the same chronicle as allies or antagonists. When the Forsaken is not hunting the Remade, Storytellers can leverage common thematic keystones to bring them together. The Uratha value loyalty and the Remade need it, making them good team players — if they can keep Kuruth and Instability from tearing them apart. Between natural hunters who run on rage and vengeance-fueled human weapons whose broken souls force them to strive against hated foes, mutual enemies are a Storyteller’s best bet for story hooks that bring the two together. Deviants are guaranteed to chase after Conviction Touchstones and werewolves are constantly on the hunt, so get the Web of Pain involved with the spirit world, the Pure, and other setting elements the Forsaken care about. The following is an example of a mutual enemy Storytellers can use in their chronicles. Futurix Press, Inc. “Keep them looking up at the stars, and they’ll never even think to look into the shadows.” Futurix Press, Inc. is a publishing house that puts out science-fiction quarterlies, like Atomic Quarterly, and novellas by popular and brilliant authors. That’s just a front, though, for its real purpose: producing the perfect being. Deep within the Web of Pain, a hidden cadre of Nazi sympathizers with a lab and too much money set out to create its own “master race” using experimental (and highly questionable) advances in genetic research. At roughly the same time, a pack of Ivory Claws with Nazi sympathies of their own set out to do much the same — breed their Pure messiah using a combination of age-old Tzuumfin rites and Nazi occultism. The two groups met during a gathering for an equally secretive underworld alliance that included government officials and foreign nationals as well as vampires, witches, and weirder things. Upon discovering they had resources to spare and a common goal of sorts, the conspiracy and the Anshega went into business together.
451 Story Hooks Futurix publishes legitimate, imaginative science-fiction stories, mostly written by Baselines who have no idea who’s sitting on the board of directors. The company encourages these writers to come up with the most accurate picture of fantastical, futuristic science they can, predicting the pinnacle of human evolution and achievement. Then, the human conspiracy lifts these ideas straight out of the magazines’ pages to inspire new methods and forms of Divergence, while the werewolves deliberately market these stories as rational tales based on real science, turning public opinion against superstition and belief in the supernatural wherever possible to protect their own and discourage monster hunters from suspecting the truth. Sharing resources and comparing notes, they run breeding programs punctuated by strange inventions and Shadowlore. Whenever a Renegade, a Forsaken pack, or some other interloper sniffs around a little too persistently, the magazine publishes a story that hews way too close to the offender’s real life, dropping enough hints that any humans looking to poke their noses where they don’t belong can get in their way. In game terms, a character exposed this way gains the Notoriety Condition (Chronicles of Darkness, p. 290). Darker Than You Think In 1940, Jack Williamson, one of the authors working freelance for Futurix, accidentally stumbles across the truth. Terrified and desperate, he writes the novelette Darker Than You Think, a veiled exposé on the company’s secrets masquerading as fiction and sells it to Unknown magazine. He immediately cuts off all communication with Futurix, finds a pack of Forsaken or a cohort of Renegades using the clues scattered about the magazines’ previous issues, and begs for protection. In the meantime, while they try to hunt him down, the conspiracy and the Ivory Claws scrabble to find scapegoats they can set up for the fall once the story goes to press. Story Hooks Below are some story hooks specific to this era or have been inspired by science-fiction stories. These Story Hooks offer ways for a chronicle to include both the Forsaken and Remade. Is There a Draft in Here? Summary: Over the course of a few weeks, several of the cohort’s Touchstones (both Loyalty and Conviction) are conscripted in quick succession, and any who apply for conscientious objector status are rejected. The Remade can’t accompany them overseas — or to prison — without giving themselves away, and if they can’t find a way to keep their Touchstones around, they’ll rush headlong into Instability and lose control. Setup: This is no streak of bad luck; a conspiracy — or more than one — with influence over who’s chosen for war targets these Touchstones, in hopes that by denying the Renegades everyone important to them, they’ll have no choice but to turn to the conspiracy. Through the Web of Pain, this conspiracy has entered a loose alliance with others manipulating the supernatural underworld through the draft boards, including a pack of Pure, a Seer Pylon, and the local Invictus. Deviants: The cohort must learn about the conspiracy’s influence and find a way to excise it before they lose their Touchstones and deteriorate into death or worse. Their enemy acting through a government institution with secret supernatural allies makes this much harder than it initially appears, encouraging them to seek aid from others with common cause, who blend in better with Baselines and thus have an easier time infiltrating human government offices. But why does this underworld alliance exist to begin with, and what else is the conspiracy getting out of it? Werewolves: The Forsaken experience a similar issue; Ivory Claws use the draft board to ship off as many of the pack’s Touchstones and Wolf-Blooded comrades as they can, leaving the werewolves exposed and friendless on a home front increasingly motivated by fear to root out the different and foreign. The Uratha, as shapeshifters, are well-placed to help the Renegades if the two groups hash out an alliance, and they benefit from the sheer versatility the Deviants contribute. But what do the Pure plan to do once they weaken the Forsaken, and why are they so willing to work with outsiders to get there? Psychic Indoctrination Summary: In 1943, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (as Lewis Padgett) publish a short story entitled “Mimsy Were the Borogoves.” They believe they invented it. In truth, they adapted it. The original tale, too alien to fit inside their human minds without reshaping itself, leaked to them subliminally through a stuttering psychic feed of jumbled memories from the broken mind of a discarded young Devoted. He and his sister had discovered a box of strange toys on the riverbank near their house, and the more they played, the further their minds strayed from normal human logic and pathways. Eventually, the toys conditioned both children to decidedly inhuman patterns of thought — they Diverged, becoming Pathological Cephalist Remade. But their Scars cracked their psyches wide open, the aberrant logic continuing to rewrite their brains until they went gratefully into the arms of the first conspiracy to stumble across them, pleading for help. The conspiracy couldn’t help. In a few short months, the pair lost the ability to effectively communicate with or comprehend anything or anyone but each other. The conspiracy couldn’t use them anymore, so it left them to wander the streets. The conspirators never realized that the kids’ mental broadcasts of what seemed like nonsense — just psychic static — were contagious. Setup: One of the Remade characters’ Baseline Loyalty Touchstones shows signs of erratic behavior and oddball
Fear and the Golden Promise of Tomorrow 452 thinking, but the oddities give them keen insights they shouldn’t have into weird phenomena. Use the Psychic Indoctrination Transmissible Divergence on p. 446 to represent their condition and how it spreads. This Touchstone’s Obsession Condition revolves around the site of a recently fallen meteor, where a passel of void spirits causes havoc on the Forsaken pack’s territory. Deviants: The afflicted Touchstone’s strange obsessions and slow decline in their ability to communicate with the cohort put them in great danger. The longer the cohort investigates, the more Baselines — and Touchstones — are vulnerable to indoctrination; they must race the clock to get to the bottom of it before this viral thought worm spreads uncontrollably, rewriting the entire city to some sideways, impossible logic. Where did the toys come from? Were they sent by a malevolent conspiracy bent on inflicting Divergence on a grand scale, or was it an unfortunate accident? Werewolves: While defending their territory from the void spirits, the pack becomes embroiled in the Renegades’ mission. Upon discovering that anyone infected by the Divergence can understand First Tongue even when nothing else gets through, they suspect the incidents are related. They must fend off the void spirits, search for clues to the potential idigam’s nature and location before it makes itself known in destructive fashion and stop their human companions from getting infected — while the Uratha are immune, the Wolf-Blooded are not. If an idigam is causing the alien indoctrination, where is that Moon-Banished now, and can the process be reversed once begun? Sources and Inspiration Stanley G. Weinbaum’s short story “A Martian Odyssey” (1934), C.L. Moore’s anthology Jirel of Jory (1935–1939), and Clark Ashton Smith’s short story “City of the Singing Flame” (1931) are all excellent examples of characters visiting strange and surreal worlds that could serve as inspirations for Uratha visiting unusual portions of the Shadow. Similarly, A. E. van Vogt’s novel Slan (1940) is the archetypal example of a story of an oppressed and hunted individual fighting back against this oppression and transforming the world. E. E. Smith’s novel Galactic Patrol (1937) is one of the first obviously anti-Nazi works of science fiction and was written before Germany had begun invading other nations. It is fascinating for its portrayal of space-Nazis, who are instantly recognizable by their Germanic names, but who are portrayed as murderously authoritarian criminal thugs, which is quite different from almost all later fictional portrayals of Nazis. As mentioned in this chapter’s introduction, the following science-fiction stories are perfect inspiration for Deviant in this era: A. E. van Vogt’s Slan, Wilmar Shiras’ “In Hiding” (later the first chapter of her novel Children of the Atom), Isaac Asimov’s Mule stories from the Foundation series, and Gerald Heard’s Doppelgangers. Other Golden Age stories that delve into Deviant themes include Olaf Stapledon’s novel Odd John, Stanley G. Weinbaum’s story “Proteus Island,” Lewis Padgett’s Baldy stories (later collected as the novel Mutant) and
453 Sources and Inspiration short story “Mimsy Were the Borogoves,” Ray Bradbury’s “Fever Dream,” William Temple’s Four-Sided Triangle, C. L. Moore’s “No Woman Born,” and Poul Anderson’s “Tomorrow Children.” For modern inspirational media taking place in the era, you can’t do much better than Charlie Higson’s 10-episode series Jekyll and Hyde, a television sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s gothic horror novel which depicts Dr. Robert Jekyll as the original Jekyll’s grandson in the 1930s, who’s unknowingly inherited his own Hyde with unnatural powers, and a mountain of mysteries about his own background. He’s dragged into exploring them by the machinations of two opposing conspiracies, both of whom are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and murder to get their hands on him — all while he desperately tries to stay one step ahead of his own alter ego with science. Marvel’s Agent Carter is another good source of period inspiration, pitting secret agent Peggy Carter against the dual enemies of sexism and a conspiracy that’s larger than she initially knows. She’s not a Remade, but she deals with plenty of weird, super-scientific technologies and could easily be called a lowercase-R renegade.
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455 DARK FOLLOWER Kevin Mueller Killrog Kimberely Altomere Lanandor Lance LeDuc Lark Cunningham Laurence M. Pereira Leandro Raniero Fernandes Leonardo Menezes Moura Cruz Lisa Padol Logan Rollins Lord Arc Luca Magorosso Magnus Stenrød Malcolm Jackson Malu Castro Marco Generoso Marian Weaver Mark “Toroid” Rae Mark Campbell Sensenig Mark Hulsman Marko “Lykas” Stein Markus Veit Marshall Cain Marshall J Moore Martin J. Manco Martin Trudeau Mary Lee Ashcraft Matt Corkum Matt Ross Matt Russo Matthew Earlywine Matthew Joel Stewart Matthew Rees Maurizio Locusti Maxime Durand Megan Jenkins Megan Kennedy MichaÅ‚ “Idril” Michael Bowman Michael Brewer Michael Grasso Michael Kahan Michael Kelly Michael O. Holland Michael Parker Michael Pietrelli Michael Tully Michaella Amora Ragowsky Mike Mon Mike Tucker Molly Storm Mr. Brown Mr. Spark Mr-Haitch Nathan Hoskins Nice Brian Nicholas Berkeley Nicholas Peterson Nick Riley Nicola Went Ninjar Oneiros Owen Wesley Kerschner Paolo Biggio Patrick Hume Patrick Knowles & Tyler Lominack Paul Hunting Paul Ryan Perverseness Peter Gates Peter Li Peter Petrovich Peter Steponaitis Phil Hattie Preston Bruce Preston Lee Bobo Raphael Bressel Rasmus Stenbäck Rastlin_M Ravraxas Remy Handler Rich Palij Richard Ross Rob Townsend Robert aka Shukar Robert DeBroeck Robert Fraser Robert Watson Robert Wyatt Rohel Terrazas Ron “Phantom “ Smay Ross Byers Rupert Pavel Russell Doty RVH Ryan Griffin Ryan Kent Ryan Spinney Ryan Tsandilis Ryan Wheeldon S.E. Stone Sam Lyons Sami “Heretic” Qvist Satchel Scott Hornbuckle Scott Jenks Scott Southwick Seana McGuinness Seidr Jonsdottir Shadrakh Shannon Keniry Shawn Gustafson Shen. Hung-Yang Sillade Silvio Herrera Gea Skylar “Penta” Wall Somalucard Stephen J Beardslee Steven D Warble Steven K. Watkins Stuart Martyn Svend Andersen Swallow Sydney C. Tara Cameron Tartan Collier Tassy Crewse Ted Ludemann Teresa Oswald The Bellwether Beast THE Donnie The Great Ghoul The Plaid Mentat “Theo” Thomas Martin Eifried Tiffany Korta Tobias Hensan Tom and Rachel Tony Strongman Travis Penrod Trevor Pease tzeentchian Vera Vartanian Victor Segell Vincent Devane vincent furstenberger Vito D. Vojtech Pribyl Wayback Whistler Will Blankenship William ‘Beej’ Carson Xinder Yang Wu Zeven Zhivko Yakimov Zilaenor • • • Andrew cain Andrew Corrigall Blair A. Monroe Dávid Csobay Daniel Scribner Dave “UncleMonkey” Bruno Dave “Wintergreen” Harrison Derek Guder Doug Grimes Fredric Dalqvist Gavin Carruthers Guy Reisman Ioannes Palaiologos James Ford Jeddy Kight Jon Michael Razo Joshua Cameron Justin Woo Korusef M D Walcott Mikael Assarsson Nicole Winter Robert Carnel Robert G. Male Siobhan (Bon) McKenna Steven Nicholson The Masseys
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457 DARK SEEKER Imran Inayat Incandescent Dragon Creation Ireena Farway Ismael Souza Kenig Ivo goudzwaard J. Guzman Jack Blacklaws Jacob H Jakob Maretti Bengtsen Kiilerich James “Callidus” Foster James Ristig Jared Koon Jared Tibbs Jason Beadle Jason C Marshall Jason Corley Jason Freston Jason Reimink Jason Ross Inczauskis Jeff Erwin Jeremy A. Mowery Jeremy Pignat (Quire) Jeremy Quinn Jesse Breazeale Jesse Tannous Jessica Orsini Jessica Purdy Jim “The Destroyer” Bellmore John Bogart John Doyle John Lambert John M. Portley Jon Layfield Jonathon Moir Jonci Aguillard Jorden Varjassy Jordynn Stohr Joseph Matthews Joseph Oliveira Joshua Ramey Joshua Ramsey Josie Wicker Katie Harwood Keegan “Tinkergoth” Bateman Keenan Parker Keith E. Hartman Ken Finlayson Kerry Birmingham Kevin “Wolf” Patti Kevin Hislop Kevin Wine Khalil Ayvar Kier Duros Kjell Kenneth Moens Krister M. Michl Kristin Williams Ksinin (Dario Giardini) Kyle Blaes Kyle Ross Lane Carman Lars Haymaker Lee Dignam Leonardo Alves Lin Wyeth Lorenzo Bandieri Lori Krell Lou Garcia (Kebhab) “Lou Silvers” Louise Luke Brewer M. Aurelius M. W. Hellinger Magus Majdi Badri Maleesha Thompson Marc Collins Marc Maltais Marcellus Marcin Różycki Mario Zucco Mark Garbrick Mark Larper Martin Blake Martin Bourque Mary Springfield Mary-Ellen McAlonen Matt “Catapult” Wang Matt Johansen Matthew D. Caldwell Matthew R Tansek Matthew Roberts Melanie Newcomb Melech Starbrow Meles Badger Melinda Hawes Micah Karrick Michael “Monghani” Watkins Michael Bauer Michael Bolitho Michael Buchheim Michael Ehrhardt Michael Kusternig Michael Laitinen Michael Maggs Michael Mooney The Tryany of Books Michael Murray Michael Patrick Foight Michael Raymer Michael Richards Michael Tree Michele “Mighty” Masala Mike Shema Monika “Gryf” Biskupska Morgan Mahoney Morgan Weeks Morten Lange Mr. Junas Nack The Penguin Nathan Henderson Nathaniel H. Pace Nicholas Racz Nick Roach Nicole Porter Nik May Oumaru Patrick Healey Patrick McGeachie Paul ‘Five Eyes’ Harries Paul Lukianchuk Paul P. Peter Holland Peter Nielsen Peter Ong Petri Wessman Phil Edwards Pia Salter Rain Pletcher Raymond Hemphill Redd Grey Rex Ruthless Robert “Ayslyn” Van Natter Robert and Amanda Daley Robert Ashford Roberto Hoyle Robin “Jarval” Farndon Rodrigo Moreira Fagundes ROMzombie S T Tan S. Alexander Gentry, PhD S.K. Samara Nyeme Sami Uusitalo Samuel Lamb Samuli Hannuksela Saneven (D. B. Rosengard) Sawyer Sweet Sean Silva-Miramon Sebastian Heck Serra Angel Seth Hartley Shaun D. Burton Simon “Beldro” Boucher Stefano Monachesi Stephen Stann Stuart Armstrong Syl Wyant Teoxihuani the Derzers The Fowler Family The Freelancing Roleplayer The Mordak The Waltzing Murray Gaming Family Thomas van Tassel Thomas White Timon Pike Timothy Mushel Tobias Binks Tommaso De Benetti Tommy Svensson Travis Carpenter Trevor Byington Tristan “Twitchy” Wolfe DeRoches Tuesdae Cheyenne Two-Tails Ty Bailey Tyson ‘Daji’ Pink
Kickstarter Backers 458 Vincent Gonsalves Vivian and Melissa Wise W Ryan Carden Wade Geer waelcyrge Walter B. Schirmacher Wayne Kostencki Wes C. William Ables William Cappelletti William Dovan Yann Krehl Yonatan Carmi Zack Norwig Zaphrael & Ishigael Zyfram • • • (un)reason @hamildong Aaron ‘Tzurah’ Canning Aaron Woodside Adam Reik Adrian Giovanni AetherealFlux Alec Humphrey Alexander “Keota” Clowes Allan J Allen Thornton Allyson Fanning Alwin Penterman Andrew Waterfall Anna Glock Anthony “Selketh” Dennetiere Artem Grunichev arthexis Austin Ricketts Ben Sherman Benjamin “BlackLotos” Welke Bryce Undy Chloe Sobel Christoph Schulz Christopher “Diablerist” Lenaris Christopher Maloney Christopher Partin Christopher Zacher Cierra B. Claudia du Blanc Cora Anderson Corey Davidson Crüjen A. Geist D M Hubbard Damon Wilson Daniel Peterson Daniel Poulin Dashekita N. Brooks David Bresson David Rose Fraser Davildihno Dawid “Salubrus” Wojcieszynski Devil’s Luck Gaming Diesel The Great Dolan Ross Scherfel Dom Hero Ellis Dominic Zucco Donnie “Lord Aludian” Roos, Jr. Doug Atkinson Dr.Bang Dylan Siegenthaler Eric Fleischer Eric Haste Erica “Vulpinfox” Schmitt Erik D. Smith Etienne Gagnon Evan “JabberWokky” and Sarah Edwards Felix Shafir Flioro Fnord Götz Weinreich Gabriel Night Gary R Smith II Geoffrey Martin Geoffrey Rabe Giannicola Stellino Cuboni Grumpsatyr Guillaume ‘Lenny’ Asset Harry Sillett Heinrich Krebs Hunter Crawford & Margarete Strawn J. W. Bennett Jacob G. Corbin Jason Bessonette Jason Miller Jason Petry Jason Ross JAYSON “the14thguest” TURNER Jerad “Slayer” Sayler Jeremy Brown Jeremy Miller Jesse Ruusunen Jesus Eduardo Cortes Sandoval Jim Fisher Jody Bowman Joe Dube John Benn John Carnathan John Doe John Hamilton John R. Trapasso John Rummage John Vikør Green Jon House JoN Nelson Jonathan McKeown Jonathan Sharrow Jordi Torres Serra “Uxas” Josh Sjothun Julian Wan K. A. Brown Kai Schiefer Karoly Kopataki Kat Rhodes Kimberly Morris Lance Hosaka Lars Holgaard Leif Lann Lost Koala Lucas Bonsignore-Boisset Lucius Maximus LVB Mandavar Marcel G. Paler Jr. Marcus and Leslie Arena Mark Cockerham Markus Malmo Lange Matt Parkes Matt Timm Matthew McDonnell Matthew Sanderson Matthew Wasiak Maxime Lemaire Melody Haren Anderson Mi. M. “Kyodar” Michael Jacobson Michael Lenzo Micheal Elliott Michele “MKI” Beltramini Mikel Mecham Mirko a. Mitta Monsieur Meuble Morten “Wempler” Knudsen Natalie Ingram Nathan Raymond McNeill Neil Lovell Nicolas Vandemaele-Couchy Palpacwel Patrik Lif Pawel ‘Admiral_Cola’ Lubkowski Peter (T’Sarith Degaalth) Engebos Peter Golaszewski Peter Malmo Lange peter peretti Philipp Neurohr Phillip Bailey Pieta Delaney Plenny the Ugly Randall Crawford Raphael Bourdot Raymond “Fen” Sempek Richard Libera Richard Pleyer Robert Biskin Rodger S Graham Jr Romain Darmon Santo! (°Д°) Scott Ephriam Vigil Sean ‘Ariamaki’ Riedinger Sean Martin Shad Scarboro Shawn Campbell Shawn Ellis Shawn P Shawn P Shawn Polka Special Agent Daniel Sculler Steve Martin Steven Bell
459 DARK MASTER Stewart Robertson The Howard House The Roosevelt Group Thomas “Afyon” Müskens Thomas C. Martin Thomas Faßnacht Thomas Maund Tibor Durgonics Tim-Chang Trent Tuesday Tristan valentine Vesper Abaddon Vicknesh Suppramaniam Warren P Nelson Wendy Gri Werner H. Hartmann William F Scrimsher III William J Schebler Jr William Neil Zach Dando Zachariah Goldie Zachary Fye Zachary Miller Zackary Szechenyi Zandruin • • • Benjamin Birchall Bert “Silent Bob” Sanders Brad Wall Brian “Mad Hatter” Harris Christopher Greer Christopher Gunning Coyotekin Crystal Ri David Awesome Cole David Futterrer Dr. Donald A. Turner Edward Monical-Vuylsteke Eldagusto “Gordon Gordon Gordon” Frédéri “Volk Kommissar Friedrich” POCHARD Glenn Clifford Ian McGregor Ingrid Emilsson J. David Porter Jack Neddleson James Mendez Hodes JC Cohen Jean-Pierre Santi Marc Rivault Markus Kostarczyk Martin Vaillancourt Meg and Kevin Weaver Michel Foisy Michelle Flamm Nathan Bjerke Nicolas Villatte Rem Kosluchar Sean Willoughby Serventa Shanna Broussard Shawn Gates Sinellil Steve Burnett TaldorBlackfire Topher Ruggles Uncy Carl Strauser William Delmar III Xavier Aubuchon-Mendoza Yancey Larochelle-Williams • • • 1. Robert Christian Ruiz 2. Lindagrace Mastrangelo Andrew Bradley, Arron Smith David Santiago et Batronoban Kizzy and Gideon Puck KJ Wall, M Eringsmark Matthew G Payton Sharon “Knallis” Sillan and Violet Sparks Tanner Allen, Locke Lund • • • Aaron Jacob Kelly & Eleanor Mae Kelly James Watkins, James Walther José Luiz “”Tzimiscedracul”” F. Cardoso, Bruno Soares Jardim Kaycie J Goodman Kisako Taikana, Chase Strohm Nicholas D. Dragisic, Tim Prisching • • • Trollune; Charles Trécourt; Louis Trécourt; Yannick Peyrède; Fabien Fernandez DARK MASTER Jamie Myers Joseph Lunder • • • Brad Whitcomb Maxime Berar Terrence M1A2G7I Micheau • • • Chris Handforth Jason Italiano Justin Simon ‘Reseru’ Sansone Zachary Thomas Tyler, Bone Shadow Cahalith
For millennia, monsters have hunted and fought alongside us… Rebellions swell and vampires feed. Casualties of war draw Reapers to blood-soaked battlefields. Gilded ages benefit mortals and monsters alike. How? Why? What role do the monsters play with us —- and each other? Dark Eras 2 explores 13 new eras scattered throughout the history of the Chronicles of Darkness. Each chapter features two to three game lines and is compatible with Chronicles of Darkness Second Edition rules. Unlock the past. Find out what hides in the shadows. Inside, you’ll find: • Historically inspired settings and story hooks • Character-creation tips and gameplay advice • New Tilts, Conditions, and era-appropriate rules