06-24-2015, 12:00 PM
I wanted to give you guys a heads up about the impending changes to the Tradition names. For those who've already checked out the M20 book this won't be a surprise, but for those who haven't, a handful of the Traditions have name changes that I'm planning to employ. These are:
Akashic Brotherhood ---> Akashayana
Euthanatos ---> Chakravanti
Dreamspeakers ---> Kha'vadi
Virtual Adepts ---> Mercurial Elite
Cult of Ecstasy ---> Sahajiya
Sons of Ether ---> Society of Ether
Verbena ---> Verbenae (not so much a change as a shift back to using the correct plural)
(If you'd like to know the reasoning behind these changes, you can check out the M20 book on page 145 and/or the Tradition descriptions starting on 148. Or you can talk to me if you don't have the book.)
I'm not planning to make these changes official in our canon until we make the formal switch to M20, but in the meantime you guys should assume that the new names are starting to make the rounds among the younger members of the Traditions. There is talk of possible changes, and depending on how connected your character is to the rest of their Tradition, they may or may not already be aware of the movement. These kinds of things generally take some time to build up, so I figure, realistically, there are going to be mages who support the change and those who don't. Those who do will be pushing the new names into common usage, while those who don't may choose to stick with the old name even after the official announcement comes down from the Council. How your mage reacts to this, and which name they decide to use, is entirely up to you.
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Regarding the Avatar Storm...
Awhile back Sam made an announcement that the Storm is going to be winding down. I'm not sure when or how he started employing that, or where we were at with it when he left, but I do plan to continue along those lines. My assumption is that the Storm has been growing steadily less violent over the past year. Mechanically-speaking, this means that it's been doing Lethal instead of Aggravated damage (still dangerous, but slightly less terrifying.) At this point, I'm ready to downgrade that even further to Bashing damage. The mechanics for passing through the storm will be the same, but it will do much milder damage. At some point, the Storm will simply cease to exist, but we haven't quite hit that point yet.
Akashic Brotherhood ---> Akashayana
Euthanatos ---> Chakravanti
Dreamspeakers ---> Kha'vadi
Virtual Adepts ---> Mercurial Elite
Cult of Ecstasy ---> Sahajiya
Sons of Ether ---> Society of Ether
Verbena ---> Verbenae (not so much a change as a shift back to using the correct plural)
(If you'd like to know the reasoning behind these changes, you can check out the M20 book on page 145 and/or the Tradition descriptions starting on 148. Or you can talk to me if you don't have the book.)
I'm not planning to make these changes official in our canon until we make the formal switch to M20, but in the meantime you guys should assume that the new names are starting to make the rounds among the younger members of the Traditions. There is talk of possible changes, and depending on how connected your character is to the rest of their Tradition, they may or may not already be aware of the movement. These kinds of things generally take some time to build up, so I figure, realistically, there are going to be mages who support the change and those who don't. Those who do will be pushing the new names into common usage, while those who don't may choose to stick with the old name even after the official announcement comes down from the Council. How your mage reacts to this, and which name they decide to use, is entirely up to you.
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Regarding the Avatar Storm...
Awhile back Sam made an announcement that the Storm is going to be winding down. I'm not sure when or how he started employing that, or where we were at with it when he left, but I do plan to continue along those lines. My assumption is that the Storm has been growing steadily less violent over the past year. Mechanically-speaking, this means that it's been doing Lethal instead of Aggravated damage (still dangerous, but slightly less terrifying.) At this point, I'm ready to downgrade that even further to Bashing damage. The mechanics for passing through the storm will be the same, but it will do much milder damage. At some point, the Storm will simply cease to exist, but we haven't quite hit that point yet.