Degenesis: Rebirth - Primal Punk

AMBROSIA

In the mythology of the Bygone people, pods’ nanite blood. Thick and old, it flows person and has not been replaced by
Ambrosia is the food that makes the gods through their veins, waiting to be refreshed. someone else throughout the centuries,
immortal. Argyre’s Ambrosia – and thus Are Marauders immortal while they refresh perhaps Ambrosia really can be compared
all Marauders’ Ambrosia – is the Sleeper their blood? Maybe. If Argyre is one single to the food of the gods.

she feebly falls into a fitful hibernation. Ongoing REBUS THE BAPTIST Rebus’s host. They will later be known as Anabaptists.
blizzards in Scandinavia drive the population to their THE FIRST CASCADE2146: The founding of the city of Exalt marks the end of the
limits. While a strong core of hard citizens insists on
staying in the fatherland and hope for better days, era of the beast. Police forces patrol its domain and
hundreds of thousands begin to go south. pacify the region. Outlaws are hunted like animals and
2090: The Spitalians leave their exile and create the first put down. Beyond the Exalt city limits, though, Clans
containment zones around their HQ, trying to make still rage and make the populace tremble in fear.
a fresh start. 2148: The dictate of faith: The Anabaptists’ storming of
2095: The Janus Crater sits between the European Cologne cathedral bereaves the Chroniclers of their
continent and the United Kingdom like a coagulum largest collection of old texts and data to date. For a
and redirects the Gulf Stream. This impacts Europe’s moment it seems as if the Streamers’ end has come.
sensitive climate: the North Sea and Baltic Sea start 2160: The Masai leave the Ngorongoro crater and stride
freezing. into a deserted land.
2097: The era of the beast descends upon mankind: 2173: Exactly one hundred years after the global
helplessness and omnipresent decay lead to bloody conflagration, the RG facilities open to release human
violence, a last, mindless uprising against the vanity back into a changing world: the 100s, the first
inevitable. Without any controls, anti-social types Sleeper generation of Project Tannhäuser, awakens.
give in to their dark sides and terrorize whole villages. They spread out to subdue the earth. Some Sleepers
2102: Streamers occupy the freight yard of the city that will test their sociocybernetic skills on small towns,
become Justitian. They wander through the ruins suppressing them with armed force if necessary and
and dig for pre-Eshaton writings. Because of this, the implanting memes as planned. Thus they prepare for
locals call them “Chroniclers”. a rural society susceptible to religion. Other groups
2109: In Cologne cathedral’s catacombs, a Streamer group check the situation for the 200s, repair, and expand.
discovers a vast collection of texts. That alone is The Eshaton came upon mankind too fast: not
remarkable, but in the museum next to the cathedral, everything was ready. A radio network and extended
a sensation awaits them. On a server, they find a tunnel systems form the base for a new infrastructure.
bubble of Static Stream. In the years to come, they 2185: East Borca awakens from its rigor mortis. The climate
remove layer by layer and carry the data to their HQ. has changed massively in the years after the Eschaton.
2122: An enterprising African merchant sells cereals from
the hinterland and goods from his own workshops Humidity rising from the Reaper’s Blow is carried
to the coastal cities. His company grows. Everyone east by the wind and favors vegetation. Forests of
knows him as “the Libyan”. evergreen conifers spread.
2132: Cults and sects arise from the ruins, nurtured by the 2210: Purgans and Balkhani meet in the Adriatic lowlands.
desire for a strong community and for structures The former stand with their backs against the wall as
that simple minds can believe in. Still, almost none their hinterland is burnt by volcanoes; the latter claim
of these neo-religious communities survive their to have been there first. Blood flows.
founder’s death: their inner light is too small to keep 2215: The Libyan’s enterprises flourish even decades after
those who strive for a way out of the dark enthralled. his death. A Cult has risen from his heritage: the
Rebus the Baptist is the exception. His faith is Neolibyans. For the first time, their influence spreads
based on a new interpretation of gnosticism and beyond Africa as they send plunderers to West
does not get stuck in rituals, but provides help with Purgare’s deserted coasts. Syracuse gains importance
everyday problems to the people. Especially farmers as an entry port and terminal.
are attracted to his teachings, and they start tending 2265: Spaniards build a bridge across the Strait of Gibraltar.
to the deserted fields. At first they call themselves But they do not come as friends: they want African
oil. At first, the Africans cannot stop the invaders and
have to watch them loot their country’s last resources.

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Their rage grows, and mobs come streaming from the THE VULTUREGermany. Their arrival resuscitates Borca’s Culture
hinterland. In a large concerted action, Africa finally and brings the Jehammedan Cult to the nomadic
THE SECOND CASCADEstrikes back and destroys the Spaniards utterly at forest tribes.
Tunis. The tables have turned. 2333: The Anabaptists’ conversion efforts in Purgare begin.
2269: The Spanish invasion forces are pushed back to CULTRIN‘S DEPLOYMENT2373: Time for the third cascade: the 300-year-old ones
Gibraltar. Day by day, young warriors arrive to are supposed to rise from their cold crypts. But the
keep the vanquished enemies’ out, and the African Dispensers do not open. Are the bunker computers
army continues to grow. Now the war develops a afflicted by the 2 to the power of 16 virus? Or are the
momentum of its own that no one had been able rumors of terrifying creatures entering the Dispensers
to predict: the Africans not only push the Spaniards and tampering with the Sleeper pods true?
back to their country, but also take Andalusia as 2381: The First Judge appears and in the following years
compensation for their losses and damages. No one brings justice to Northern Borca.
uses the word “Spain” anymore; everyone calls the 2390: Argyre’s foray: He is one of the old ones, winner of
land ”Hybrispania”. countless battles, his soul a pit full of swarming
2270: Many people watch Exalt’s rise to economic power cockroaches. Northern Franka’s people call him the
with envy. The city’s influence expands: it seems Vulture. He is a Sleeper who never slept but used the
untouchable, a bastion of order and safety in a swamp power and the possibilities that Ambrosia gave him
full of snakes. early on.
2273: The 200s rise from the Dispensers in the Balkhan,
but something goes terribly wrong. The Sleepers’ He builds the yoke that bends the Sleepers to his
memory has suffered from the long cryostasis, they will. In March of 2390, he declares Britain his domain.
have forgotten the bunker’s position. The supposed Signs warn every scrap collector and adventurer not
RG elite is like a pack of terrified rabbits, walking into to poach in the Vulture’s domain or face destruction.
every trap the Dushani set for them in the wasteland. 2410: Chroniclers and Judges found Justitian, the city of
The Palers, RG’s former guards, see the clueless ones law.
as omnipotent leaders anyway. 2482: The City Wars: Nobody knows what the Recombina-
tion Group’s agenda is. Even the writings of the first
Skirmishes between the reawakened ones and the 100s only speak of assumptions and vague guidance.
shrewd, proud Balkhani make the country tremble For centuries, Sleepers have manipulated villages,
with their violence. taken over settlements, and established camps. The
2305: A fleet consisting of 13 giant barges with triangular course and goal seemed clear: what else but a world
sails lands on Franka’s west coast. The population is order dominated by RG would justify the lengths that
suspicious and keeps its distance – too often before Gerome Getrell and his group have gone to?
were coastal cities attacked by Hybrispanian and
Welsh pirates. Cultrin is a 400, and unlike his comrades he was
awakened on schedule. His memory is untouched
They turn to Aquitaine’s troops and the godlike by the cryo-sleep: the year 2073 is a memory that’s
Pheromancer Absom for aid. Both agree to help, only a few days old to him. His mind is a patchwork
but the fear is unnecessary. The presumed invaders of implanted memes that start working one by one.
are Chinese merchants and explorers. With his He tracks down Sleepers, speaks the necessary code
permission, the latter go east to study the land’s flora sequences. Memes that were considered buried and
and fauna – at least that’s what they claim. gone are activated. He is the Pied Piper, and he’s
2310: Along the river Adria, Purgans and Balkhani have playing the right notes.
erected sprawling fortifications. The fertile alluvial
land is replaced by trenches and barbed wire. On The Sleepers gather around Cultrin and form
Purgare’s side, the Spitalians found infirmary cities. a unit. An army. He equips it with Bygone weapons
News travels fast: Balkhani all over Europe rage and from the 100s’ and 200s’ warehouses. What he doesn’t
attack Spitalian facilities, even in Borca. The medical need, he offers to mercenaries and thus enlists them.
organization now mistrusts its own people if they are His camps in West and East Borca grow into cities.
from the Balkhan or have any relations there.
2320: The Ice Barrier relentlessly expands southwards and Clans and settlements send their emissaries,
pushes the Scandinavians to the coasts of former wanting to get on Cultrin’s good side.

He rejects them all.
The Anabaptists do not accept this insolence.

They attack a Sleeper outpost and wipe it out. Cultrin’s EXALT‘S DOWNFALLSores grow in the groin, redden, blacken, and finally
troops pursue and take one Anabaptist settlement form festering boils. The plague.
after another. Only when they reach Cathedral City
do they stop and return to camp. While the Preservists bury empty canisters in
the wasteland dust, the Black Death hefts its scythe.
In Exalt, a Sleeper agent is executed. Sleeper Cultrin’s army is beaten.
teams are sighted in the ruins of Berlin.
In East Borca, the wind of change blows as well:
War is in the air. the Janissaries united under the command of the
But suddenly, Cultrin disappears. According to general Osman vanquish Cultrin’s expedition armies
legend, he came across a Pheromancer Queen when at Berlin. The city is renamed Osman in honor of its
entering an airfield in Franka. Hopelessly entwined saviour.
in her net, he is said to have renounced fighting and 2495: Exalt’s doom: The City Wars brought Exalt countless
ordered his army to disperse. According to another wannabe heroes and generals. None of them want to
tale, he has a fateful encounter with a creature from return to earning a living as a farmer or a merchant
beyond the abyss of time – once the most gorgeous again. They demand influence, compensation, and
woman of her era, today a mummy, deformed by the right to participate.
malice and lust for life. She is said to have opened his
eyes and cut him down to size. Irregulars occupy the market square, the Portal
Whatever happened, his officers have no intention Halls.
of giving up so close to their goal. They fight for
control of the army but no one can replace Cultrin. Others defy the Last Rule and lay bare the
More and more small groups leave the army and go forbidden portals. With jackhammers and explosives,
looting in the wasteland. Exalt sees a chance to get rid they try to break through. A sacrilege!
of this danger once and for all and sends its fighters.
Rifle fire echoes across the plains. At the same time, Violence runs rampant in the streets; the council
an illness spreads amongst Cultrin’s mercenaries. flees to the wasteland.

Finally, the Exalters are fed up. They retreat to the
surrounding settlements and to Justitian.

Without farmers to work the land, the silos get

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THE PROTECTORATEemptier by the day. The militia hungers. Soon they 2563: The Needle Tower Disaster: The Chroniclers order
NEEDLE TOWER DISASTERare gone with the wind.16 of their most loyal Fragments to cross the Reaper’s
Blow and establish an information network in the
Exalt is a ghost town slowly drowning in dust. land beyond. Their targets are the so-called Needle
2496: A new star is born: Liqua, city of water and gambling, Towers, buildings rising cockily above Borca’s forests
that would be perfect for a new radio link. However, far
of whoring and quick cash. The population mainly from their prudish brethren, far from their strangling
consists of former Exalters who indulge in their control, and equipped with a knowledge that makes
newfound freedom. them seem like demigods to the superstitious
2498: With Exalt’s decline, Justitian’s influence rises. Its Borcan nomads, duty gives way to vanity and greed.
Protectors spread across the region, fighting uprisings, They occupy the Needle Towers, but the host of
smoking out gang nests. Several settlements enter merchants, whores, mercenaries, and cutthroats in
their protection: the Justitian Protectorate is born. their employ shows that they have changed their
2512: Archivists from Praha Republika initiate the point of view. Rumor has it that of the 16 emissaries,
construction of the Great Library in Osman. Hosts of only 8 could master the Reaper’s Blow’s trials, and
adventurers enter unexplored East Borca to search for of these remaining 8, 4 were renegades and 4 were
ancient texts in the mysterious ruins. keepers of the faith. It is unclear if the Chroniclers
2515: Praha’s Archivists suddenly vanish from the library at only spread those numbers to keep up the continuity
Osman. According to legend, Death himself dragged of the number two and its powers (2^2 = 4, 2^3 = 8,
them into the deep and kept them with him. etc.), an important foundation of their numerology.
2531: The Justitian Protectorate flourishes. Nevertheless, it is a fact that at least two Fragments
- Iridium and Chromium - founded settlements and
Justitian now encompasses several square cut contact with the Cluster. They act like vengeful
kilometers, swallowing one settlement after another. gods, demonstrations of power taking place on an
almost daily basis.
The Spitalians, who have resisted any foreign
influence for a long time, agree to a loose alliance, 2573: The most recent planned Dispenser opening.
too. But they name their terms: Justitian needs the Their technology fails; they discharge their cargo
Spital more than the Spital needs Justitian. The
Judges risk their lives in the ruins on a daily basis and at irregular intervals. Although the Recombination
need medical care, and the city itself keeps breeding Group’s plan seems to be failing, Sleepers still pose
illnesses. Though formally part of the Protectorate,
the Spital remains independent.

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a threat. Radio signals from the north make it seem CHERNOBOG On the same day, Chernobog, the Black God, rises
probable that beyond the Ice Barrier, in the polar from his chasm after a decade of deep slumber and
circle, some facilities still bide their time. REBIRTH assembles the forest Clans. He starts to march south.
2586: In Justitian, a Jehammedan assassin destroys the
stone monument of Supreme Judge Archot. Two months later, he breaks through Praha
The Colossus tilts and crashes down – taking Republika’s lines of defense. He does not stop. He
Archot’s mind with it. marches relentlessly, only destruction in his wake.
2594: The Clans rise. An artillery attack on Osman is just
The Jehammedans barricade themselves in their the beginning. In Borca, Clans that were considered
Quarter, fearing a pogrom. The Osmanic Iconide vanquished crawl from the wreckage to attack Judges.
Gileabod Ruben Abraham’s blessed son, an Isaakii, Merchants are killed, no one dares to enter the ruins
is found, shot from his horse, dragged through the anymore. Settlements at the fringes burn, Judgement
streets, and hanged from the Uptown wall. When this stones are toppled. The Protectorate crumbles.
news reaches Osman, the whole city rages and cries
for revenge. A thousand Swords of Jehammed march In the Balkhan, the Voivodes free themselves from
west from Osman. But the Reaper’s Blow once again the Clans’ grasp and take over.
proves impassable. Humiliated, they settle down.
They cannot return home: Osman will only welcome Although the Clans’ cockiness is not founded
them as conquerors of Justitian. in reality in many places, they attack platoons of
2591: The battle between Jehammedans and Anabaptists on Spitalians and sell them to Africans. The Balkhan
the Adriatic Sea has lost quite some intensity in the becomes extremely dangerous for any foreigner.
last decades. Both sides are bled dry and persevere in
silent hatred. The Chronicler Fragment Modus offers a hand to
2593: The Signal: Everywhere in Europe, a pulsed AM the Anabaptists, and they take it. Modus enters the
message can be heard beginning in February. It repeats cathedral as the Baptists’ guest and once a day shows
every 15 minutes. The Chroniclers record it and try up at the main doorway accompanied by the Baptist
to decipher it – so far in vain. Via triangulation, they Orphid. As long as he is in Cathedral City, there will
pinpoint the signal to be somewhere in the Balkhan. be no fighting.

Chroniclers and Anabaptists mistrust this peace
and watch each other skeptically. Centuries of conflict
have left their mark.

2595

Welcome to the present. The Protectorate helplessly faces the hatred of the Clans, while the Cults close
ranks. Even former arch-enemies consider alliances. Chernobog’s hordes fill the Balkhan with violence and
destruction - what is the Black God’s goal, and what will happen when he reaches it? What is Argyre doing
in Britain? What are the Great Library’s secrets?



INDEX Bergamo 126
Biokinesis 42
SYMBOLS Biokinetics 338
2 to the power of 16 168 Bit 174
Black Judge 202
A Blood of Aries‘ 287
Books of the Dead 270
Abrami 285 Borca 63
Acheron 315 Borderpost South 83
Adriatic 126 Britain 85
Advocate 203 Briton 84
Africa 135 Brno 94
Agent 174 Bucharest 105
Al-Andalus 120 Burn 39
Albatross 301 Buzzard 301
Alpha Wolf 231
Alpine Fortress 180 C
Alpine Passages 93
Ambassador 245 Campeadora, la 114
Ambrosia 351 Campobasso 129
Ammit 273 Carrion Birds 296
Amos 312 Cartel Thug 231
AMSUMO 145 Cartographer 244
Anabaptists 305 Castile 114
Anaesthesiologist 160 Cathedral City 68, 308
Anansi-Spiders 267 Cave Bear 230
Ancestors 136 Chaga 258
Anubia 143 Champion 217
Anubians 53, 263 Chernobog 56, 102
Anubis-Syndicate 264 Chieftain 217
Apocalyptics 53, 291 Chronicler Drafts 168
Appraiser 231 Chroniclers 50, 165
Apprentice 244 City Judge 202
Aquitaine 84 Clanners 51, 207
Arbiter 203 Codex 195, 200
Archot 198 Colossus 337
Arianoi 284, 287 Commando Prime 161
Aries 284 Commissioner 203
Ascetic 314 Confederations 104
Aspera 54 Constantine 139
Aspirant 329 Consul 245
Assessor 203 Consultant 161
Aurora 328 Cordoba 119
Corporal 188
B Corps Commander 199
Corpse 132
Badger 230 Counselor 315
Balkhan 99 Cruces 127
Bank of Commerce 141, 238 Cuckoo 300
Baptist 315 Cyclops 329
Battle Crow 300
Bedain 133, 226
Beograd 102

D Furor 314
Fuse 175
Dalmatia 108
Damu 258 G
Danzig 96
Death Masks 254 Gatherer 216
Delilah 286 Genie 189
Demagogue 329 Gibraltar 112
Demagogues 323 Great Hunter 244
Dhoruba 136 Grenadier 188
Discordance 44, 89, 141, 338
Doctrine 182 H
Druschinnik 96
Dufu 258 Hagari 286
Dumisai 259 Hall of Judgement 199
Dushan 42 Halo 329
Harvesting villages 131
E Healer 273
Hecatean 273
Earth Chakras 43 Hellvetica 70
Echein spiders 157 Hellvetics 50, 179
EIGHT 256 High Judge 203
Elder 161 Hippocrat 160
Elysian 314 Hive 136
Embalmer 272 Hogon 273
Emissary 315 Homo Degenesis 40
Enchanter 272 Hondo 258
Epigeneticist 160 Hummingbird 301
Eshaton 36 Hunter 216
Eternal oases 93 Hybrispania 48, 111
Exalt 69, 351 Hygienics 154
Executioner 202 Hygienist 160

F I

Famulancer 160 Ibis 301
Fatum 287 Ice Age 36
Ferropol 68 Ice Barrier 97
Festering, The 67 Iconide 286
Field Medic 160 Iconides 280
Field Officer 189 Imiut skin 266
Finch 300 Immaculate 287
First Judge 194 Infiltrator 189
Fisherman 279 Initiate 272
Forager 189 Isaaki 285
Founder 217 Ismaeli 285
Four Rivers of Paradise, The 308
Fox 230 J
Fractal Forests 89
Fragment 174 Jehammedans 53, 277
Franka 46, 75 Jehammed‘s Blessing 286

INDE X 359

Judges 50, 193 O
Justitian 65, 195
Officer 231
K Orderly 160
Orgiastic 314
Karakhan, The 105 Osman 70
Kifo 259 Owl 300

L P

Laibach 101 P-26 SQUAD 189
L’Aquila 129 Palers 53, 319
Legend 231 Pandora 43, 93
Leopards 144 Pandorians 90
Liqua 69 Paradigma 174
Lisbon 121 Paradise 308
Lone Wolf 230 Parasite 78
Passage North 83
M Passage South 83
Pelican 301
Macerata 129 Perugia 128
Maculate 287 Pest 102
Magnate 244 Phantom 329
Magpie 300 Pharmacist 160
Manufacturer 230 Pheromancers 76
Marabou 301 Pheromancy 42
Marauders 54 Phoenix 301
Marduk Oil 78 Piast 95
Maw, The 127 Pollen 46, 87
Mechanist 230 Praha Republika 72
Mediator 174 Pregnocticism 42
Medic 169 Preservist 161
Merchant 244 Pride of Jehammed 286
Mirar 43 Primer 154
Mirror, The 171 Prophet 286
Mollusks 154 Protector 202
Mother of Ravens, the 296 Protectorate 66
Mother spore fields 39 Provost 161
Mouse 230 Psychokinesis 42
Moyo 259 Psychovores 44, 137
Purgare 49, 123
N
Q
Needle 175
Needle Tower Disaster, the 169 Qabis 142
Needle Towers 73
Neognosis 307 R
Neolibyans 51, 235
Nodes 118 Radio Beam Unit 188
Noret 69 Raider 245
Noumenon 155 Rain 68
Nox 43 Ramein 69
Raptures 42

Raven 300 Streamer 174
Reaper’s Blow 64, 180 Stukov Desert 84
Recruit 160 Subaltern 189
Redeemer 329 Sublime 315
Registrar 161 Sun Band Incident 349
Renegados 118 Supreme Judge 203
Reviver 328 Surgeon 160
Righteous One 286 Sword of Jehammed 285
Road, The 142
Role playing game 28 T
Roma 131
Routing Hubs 81 Tarot 294
Tern 300
S Territorial Regions 184
Toko 301
Santiago 127 Touched 314
Sapper 188 Transhuman Era 344
Saraeli 286 Tribal Warrior 216
Scavenger 230 Tripol 141
Scourgers 51, 249 Triszyklion 326
Scout 216 Tunis 139
Scrappers 51, 221 Turkey 109
Scribe 244
Seafarer 244 U
Seagull 300
Seed, The 311 Usud 43, 100
Senator 203
Sentinel 188 V
Sepsis 38, 152
Shaman 216 Vagrant 202
Sheikh 245 Valladolid 114
Shepherd 285 Veneto 127
Shutter 175 Vigilantes 131
Sickle 273 Village Doctor 161
Signal 57 Voice of Jehammed 286
Simba 259 Vulture 300
Scalar 175
Sleeper 323 W
Sleeper Prophets 326
Sofia 104 Warpage 120
Solar 328 Warui 253
Solar Cross 270 Waziri 245
Soldier 188 Woman of the Mountain, The 118
Souffrance 43, 77 Woodpecker 300
Soul Seer 272 Wretched Hag, The 95
Special Detachement 188
Specter 328 Z
Spital 68, 156
Spitalians 60, 161 Zero 175
Sporefront 97 Zigguraths 80
Spotter 189
Stork 300 INDE X 361
Stream 342