Mage-Traditions
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The Traditions have seen much in their 500-year history. Nothing could have prepared them for the reality of the present. The dawn of the twenty-first century brought with it a wave of terror and defeat at the hands of not just the Technocracy, but of enemies never before realized and never expected, and of enemies within their own halls.
Doissetep destroyed itself, killing almost all of its members and many Masters, including the great and venerable Porthos Fitz-Empress. A being claiming to be Heylel Teomin laid siege to Concordia in Horizon with an army of Hollow Ones and Orphans, burning much of the Great Library and destroying all semblance of order in that Realm. The Digital Web rebooted itself, erasing almost all of the battle lines, which had been drawn over the past decades. Three thousand people, magi and sleepers alike, were killed in this random reboot, and the Digital Web was left a virgin, unformatted place.
Battles were waged in the Umbra, in the Void, in Cyberspace, and in the Shadowlands. The sages and seers of both sides saw an oncoming Storm rising, one which would forever sever the spirit world from the world of Man. Fearing the Paradox inherent in their very existence, the Masters fled to the depths of the Umbra, leaving their young allies to fend for themselves, waiting for the storm to pass, even if it did come.
The Storm did come. Spirit passage became difficult. Communications and travel ceased. Soon, the Earth had no contact with its Elders and the War seemed to stop momentarily, as everyone tried to determine what to do next. The storm never stopped and the War lost all direction, as it became clear that they were fighting for something that no longer existed.
In Toronto, a city full of lost causes, the Traditions now fight to find a reason to be. What is worse, several members of the local chantry have disappeared while exploring Lake Ontario, and even the leader of the local chantry, one of the few Masters left on Earth, has been unable to find a trace of them.
