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Nefandi

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Nefandi Left-Hand Legacy of the Abyss. It is uncertain if it began as as Moros or Magiostos Legacy, but it is certain that the Nefandi can corrupt a willing member of any path to their cause. It is rumored that the Silver Ladder may secretly train Nefandi, for their unparalleled mastery of the Abyss- a neccesary evil, if the Abyss is to be overcome and a new Silver Ladder built. If such were revealed to be true, it could destroy the Order.

Nefandi learn the Abyss Arcanum as their Ruling Arcanum, losing their previous Ruling Arcanums and Inferior Arcanum. They may teach the Abyssal Arcanum to other Mages, who learn it as if it were an Inferior Arcanum. Many spirits of the Abyss (such as Acamoth) may also teach the Abyssal Arcanum as well, to a greater or lesser degree.

First Attainment: Requires Gnosis 3, Abyss 2 - Activate or deactive Eyes of Sleep as a reflexive action, at will.

Second Attainment: Requires Gnosis 5, Abyss 3 - Activate Sail the Starless Ocean as an instant action. By spending a Willpower, they may activate it as a Reflexive action.

Third Attainment: Requires Gnosis 7, Abyss 4 - Activate Consume the Fallen World once per turn for 1 Mana. It lasts a number of turns equal to your Gnosis.

Suggested Oblations: Engaging in your Vice, spending 4 hours contemplating a black sky, making a Morality check, causing another to make a Morality check

The Abyss as an Arcanum

Purview: Disbelief, Quiessence, Paradox, Abyssal Spirits, Travelling to and from the Abyss, Smothering Magic, destroying spirutallity. To a lesser degree, darkness, vice, corruption and failure.

This is the Arcanum that is forbidden, the Ars Abyssal, the mysteries of the blackness that seperates the Fallen World from the Supernal. It is the art of Paradox, the mastery of Quiessence, the death of Magic- but also the freedom from the lead weight of the chains that bind Mages to the Fallen World, a way to reach out and beyond to the Supernal with an ease that is difficult to imagine. It is corruption, but with the promise of salvation, if one is strong and sure. Few Mages have the moral fiber to daily look into the Abyss the Abyss looking back- fewer have the strength to win the blinking contest with the unblinking monsters that lurk therein.


Anyone may learn Abyssal Arcanum as an Inferior Arcanum with the aid of a teacher (such as a Nefandi or certain Abyssal spirits, akin to the Acamoth). The Nefandi may learn it as their Ruling Arcanum.

A Mage who studies Abyssal lore has their maximum Wisdom capped at (10 - Abyssal Arcanum). So, a Mage that is an Adept of the Abyss may not have a Wisdom of 6 or greater. Such is the price paid for learning truths man was not meant to know.

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