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HOWLINGS

Since I worked on the last quarterly I’ve thought to myself what I would end up

writing here for my own EQuarterly. It’s an interesting thing when you know that the

words you write here will be seen by fans like yourself, who live for the next book in their

favorite White Wolf line and die when they see the inal editing of those books.

I look back to when I irst arrived here at White Wolf and was instantly pushed into

a position as heavy-lifting equipment for the rapidly illing ofice. I watched as Intern

Alley was consumed by programmers and game designers for the upcoming MMO. I

still ache after working all weekend to make the Demo for Scion: Hero in on time,

only to watch as its was made late by the conlict between editors and developers.

And inally I look forward, As White Wolf inally begins the move to an

ofice the Icelanders will no longer make fun of; as my friends and fellow interns

get hired on by the company they respect so much and as I hopefully will do

the same in the coming weeks.

I know that there is so much to get excited about this fall, Changeling: The

Lost and Scion: God make awesome seem like an understatement, and I can’t

wait for all of you out there to see what’s coming next.

President - CCP North America: Mike Tinney

Creative Director: Rich Thomas

Production Manager: matt milberger

Board Games and Cards Manager: Pétur Þórarinsson

VtR Developer: Joe Carriker

CtL/MtA/WtF Developer: Ethan Skemp

Exalted Developer: John Chambers

Eve RPG Developer: Russell Bailey

Alternative Products Developer: Eddy Webb

Board Games and Cards Developer: Ken Cliffe

VTES/WoD Art Director: Mike Chaney

VtR Art Director: Craig Grant

WtF/CtL/MtA Art Director: Aileen E. Miles

Exalted Art Director: Brian Glass

Graphic Designer: Jessica Mullins

Director of Marketing - CCP North America: Peter Gollan

Marketing: Kelley Barnes-Herrmann

Organized Play Coordinators: Oscar Garza

Zack Walters

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Quarterly Editor-in-Chief: Robert Fulkerson

Quarterly Senior Editor: Merry Luong

Quarterly Layout: Jessica Mullins

Golden Apples,

An Article on World of Darkness: Reliquary 4

Role Call!!!, An Article on The Books of Sorcery, Vol. IV

The Roll of Glorious Divinity I—Gods & Elementals 5

Conversations Among Crumbling Columns

An Interview with Ray Fawks on Rome 7

Eyes of Ain Soph, Excerpts from Mage: Mysterium 11

Things that Go bump in the Night

An Article on Changeling: Autumn Nightmares 15

Dark and Sexy, an Interview with Mike Chaney 19

Of Gods and Men, Excerpts from Scion: God 22

Play You Favorite White Wolf Staffer, by The Interns 24

Ass Kicking and Astrology

An Interview with Dean Shomshak on

Manual of Exalted Power: The Sidereals 30

Lone Wolf, an Article on Wolf Pack “Faces in the Crowd” 33

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances

Excerpts from Monte Cook’s World of Darkness 35

Interview with an Inmate

An Interview with Joe Carriker on Asylum 38

From the Mists of Torpor

An Article on The Fall of the Camarilla 40

Gen Con turns 40!, a big congrats from White Wolf 41

Lords of the Night is White Wolf, VtES News 44

War Targets and Cogs in the Machine

Fiction from EVE Online 45

SUBMISSIONS

EDITOR’S FOREWARD 49

The Freelancer, by A. Quentin Murlin 49

cover Art

by micheal komark

permission of the publisher is expressly forbidden. White Wolf, World of

Darkness, Vampire the Eternal Struggle, EVE: Second Genesis and Exalted are

the Requiem, Werewolf the Forsaken, Mage the Awakening, Promethean the

Created, Changeling the Lost, Storyteller System, Storytelling System, Mind’s

Eye Theatre, Sword and Sorcery, the Sword & Sorcery logo, are trademarks

of White Wolf Publishing, Inc. Arthaus is a trademark of Arthaus Publishing.

The mention of or reference to any company or product in these pages is not

a challenge to the trademark or copyright concerned.

Check out White Wolf online at

http://www.white-wolf.com/

Golden Apples

An Article on Reliquary for World of Darkness

By Chandler Kennedy

Relics of power have inspired

some of the greatest legends of our

time: Medusa’s Head, the Grail, a

genie’s bottle, the True Cross, the

Spear of Destiny, and the list could

go on for hundreds of pages. These

items have been the subjects of great

quests, mythology, horriic crimes,

and urban legends. Reliquary for the

World of Darkness seeks to give a brief

catalogue of these items as well as a

list of possible powers and dozens of

adventure seeds.

Relics are created in many dif-

ferent ways, most of them deliberate.

While all supernatural creatures have

the capacity to create a magical item,

such as Klaives for werewolves or

Artifacts for mages, normal mortals

typically cannot make items of super-

natural wonder. However, as with all

rules, there are some exceptions. A

Relic could be an item imbued with

a particularly strong emotion under

a special circumstance or it could be a gift from the gods. This

book focuses on mortals and their interactions with items of

power because most other magical items created by supernatu-

rals require Gnosis, Mana, Vitae, or etc. to activate, and they

are all things that mortals do not possess. Instead of raw fuel,

most Relics require certain conditions to activate them, such

as certain actions or rituals. Or the more powerful ones are

always functional while affecting everything and everyone

around them, whether for better or for worse.

Many Relics carry a deep symbology and indeed most of

them have become symbols in themselves or icons in our modern

culture whose original meanings have been subverted into the

popular world. One example is the Grail and whether or not

this was an item or a person is still a topic of ferocious debate

dating over a thousand years of discourse. Whole legions have

been destroyed while searching for it as well as dozens of books

and movies created to tell one side of its story. It is almost

impossible to live in the modern Western world without having

heard of the Grail and its many supposed forms. Although this

item is not given stats in the book, it is the perfect example

of a Relic and the possible effect it

could have on the entire world.

However, not all Relics have

such grand histories attached to

them and many pass unnoticed

through the pages of history while

subtly affecting those they come in

contact with after their original

grand entrance. One such object is

the Apple of Eris. The Trojan War

is often blamed on Helen, “the face

who launched a thousand ships,”

But it is often forgotten that the

original cause of the war was Eris,

the Goddess of Strife, who was not

invited to a wedding on Olympus.

She created the Apple with the

legendary inscription: “For the

fairest.” It was this Apple that was

the original cause for one of the

greatest myths in Greek history.

The Apple is never heard from

again, and it passed out of memory

and into myth.

Reliquary provides a long and detailed list of relics that

range from those created by the Christian God to those created

by the strong emotions of simple, but exceptional, mortals. A

very long list of new Merits and Powers are also listed to provide

a wide range and detailed descriptions of what magical items are

capable of. This also provides for any Storyteller who wants to

create a home-brewed relic for his game. Descriptions of aging

and what the telltale signs of uses are given to help create the

reality of the relic and give it the details that belay a long and

worn history. While the very contents of this book are rife

with story seeds, a chronicle is leshed out in one chapter of

the book to outline how a Relic may be used either to drive a

Chronicle or simply to provide lavor.

Although many players may look upon these objects

as simple dice bonuses, Relics are items of wonder and should

be played as such. They should enchant players, lead players to

search around the world for them, and, in the end, show play-

ers just what kind of person they truly are. After all, absolute

power corrupts absolutely.

R o l e C a l l !!!

An article on The Book of Sorcery Vol. IV

The Roll of Glorious Divinity- Gods and Elementals

Here’s the lowdown on The

Books of Sorcery, Vol. IV—The

Roll of Glorious Divinity I—

Gods & Elementals .

The gods of Creation are basi-

cally people. They’re not totally

people, and they see things a bit

differently. They’re immortal.

They don’t feel aches and pains,

don’t need to eat (though they

like it), and they’re inhuman in

various other ways, but basically,

people they are. For the purpose of

metaphor they’re deinitely people

more than they’re anything else.

Call them people in masks.

They’re also powerful. Not

quite as powerful as the Celestial

Exalted, but they’re way more

powerful than Creation’s mortals.

And far more numerous than

the Dragon-Blooded could ever

hope to be.

Powerful people step on the

people below them. Usually,

they do it without noticing, but

when they do notice, they seldom

stop—when you’re used to doing

something, it’s always easier to

keep doing it than to quit. Even

if they try to quit they seldom suc-

ceed. Having power and exercising

it but not stepping on the people

below you is hard, and you have

to be careful to pull it off.

Gods who spend effort on being careful are at a dis-

advantage against gods who don’t. Since the Usurpation,

the politics of the spirit courts have been cutthroat. Any

being willing to put itself at a disadvantage for something

as ephemeral as ethics falls behind right quick .

In the book, I tried to step around the issue a bit. I

tried to be delicate about it. I’m only being as blunt as

I am here because I igure if you took the time to read

the White Wolf Quarterly, you deserve to see something

you won’t see elsewhere. This is me being candid.

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