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Mage: The Ascension (Revised Edition) cover, Christopher Earley, Stephan Wieck,, Sam Chupp, Publisher(s) Publication date 1993 (1 st edition) 1995 (2 nd edition) 2000 (Revised edition) 2015 (20 th anniversary edition) Genre(s) Modern Mysticism System(s) Mage: The Ascension is a based in the, and was published. The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic.

The idea of magic in Mage is broadly inclusive of diverse ideas about mystical practices as well as other belief systems, such as science and religion, so that most mages do not resemble typical fantasy wizards. In 2005, White Wolf released a new version of the game, marketed as, for the new World of Darkness series. The new game features some of the same game mechanics but uses a substantially different premise and setting. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Following the release of, put out a new roleplaying game every year, each set in Vampire's and using its Storyteller rule system. The next four games were: (1992), Mage: The Ascension (1993), (1994) and (1995).: 217–218 Mage was the first World of Darkness game that was not explicitly involved with, although it featured the Order of Hermes from his as just a single tradition among many.: 218 Lore [ ] The basic premise of Mage: The Ascension is that everyone has the capacity, at some level, to shape reality.

This capacity, personified as a mysterious alter-ego called the Avatar, is dormant in most people, who are known as sleepers, whereas Magi (and/or their Avatars) are said to be Awakened. K Naan The Dusty Foot On The Road Rar. Because they're awakened, Magi can consciously effect changes to reality via willpower, beliefs, and specific magical techniques. Olympus Master 2 Windows 7 here. The beliefs and techniques of Magi vary enormously, and the ability to alter reality can only exist in the context of a coherent system of belief and technique, called a.

A paradigm organizes a Mage's understanding of reality, how the universe works, and what things mean. It also provides the Mage with an understanding of how to change reality, through specific magical techniques. For example, an alchemical paradigm might describe the act of wood burning as the wood 'releasing its essence of elemental Fire,' while modern science would describe fire as 'combustion resulting from a complex chemical reaction.' Paradigms tend to be idiosyncratic to the individual Mage, but the vast majority belong to broad categories of paradigm, e.g., Shamanism, Medieval Sorcery, religious miracle working, and superscience. In the Mage setting, everyday reality is governed by commonsense rules derived from the collective beliefs of sleepers.

This is called the. Most Magi's paradigms differ substantially from the consensus. When a mage performs an act of magic that does not seriously violate this commonsense version of reality, in game terms this is called coincidental magic. Magic that deviates wildly from consensus is called vulgar or dynamic magic. When it is performed ineptly, or is vulgar, and especially if it is vulgar and witnessed by sleepers, magic can cause Paradox, a phenomenon in which reality tries to resolve contradictions between the consensus and the Mage's efforts. Paradox is difficult to predict and almost always bad for the mage.

The most common consequences of paradox include physical damage directly to the Mage's body, and paradox flaws, magic-like effects which can for example turn the mage's hair green, make him mute, make him incapable of leaving a certain location, and so on. In more extreme cases paradox can cause Quiet (madness that may leak into reality), Paradox Spirits (nebulous, often powerful beings which purposefully set about resolving the contradiction, usually by directly punishing the mage), or even the removal of the Mage to a paradox realm, a pocket dimension from which it may be difficult to escape.