Untitled - The Secrets of the Mind & Body Shaping

The Mechanics of
Initiation 4
Potent Magic ................................. 6
House Bjornaer 7
History ........................................... 7
Bjornaer the Founder ............................ 7
The Founding of House Bjornaer ........ 8
The Early Years of the House .............. 9
The Schism War................................... 9
Recent Events ..................................... 10
custoMs of House Bjornaer ........ 10
Harmonists & Wilderists .................... 11
House, Clan, & Sept ........................... 11
The Bjornaer Council ......................... 15
The Gathering of Twelve Years ......... 15
The Apprenticeship of a Bjornaer Magus .16
tHe HeartBeast ............................. 18
Choosing the Heartbeast ................... 19
The Heartbeast in Play ...................... 22
tHe Mysteries of House Bjornaer 24
Initiating the Clan Mysteries ............. 25
Initiating the House Mysteries .......... 25
Initiating ... the Inner Heartbeast ...... 28
The Three Inner Mysteries ................ 30
The Inner Heartbeast in Play ............. 32
Refining the Inner Heartbeast ............ 32
tHe Huntress in tHe Wood ......... 33
History of the Huntress in the Wood ..... 34
The Huntress Today .......................... 34
Structure of the Huntress ................... 34
tHe Magic of House Bjornaer ......35
cHaracters of House Bjornaer .... 36
Virtues & Flaws ................................... 36
New Virtues ....................................... 37
New Flaws .......................................... 38
New Abilities ...................................... 38
aPPendix: Mundane Beasts ............... 38
House Criamon 44
tHe founder ................................ 45
Mystery Cults
Table of Contents
WHat tHe House Believes ............. 45
Practices & Beliefs ........................ 48
Apt Action .......................................... 48
Riddles ................................................ 49
Stigmata ............................................. 50
Body Modification Rules .................... 51
Life as a Criamon Magus ................... 51
The Gorgiastics .................................. 52
Final Transmission .............................. 52
Adulterations: Lingering Problems .... 53
tHe cave of tWisting sHadoWs ... 55
The Central Clutch ............................ 55
The Prima ........................................... 55
tHe PatHs ..................................... 58
Stations ............................................... 59
Enigmatic Wisdom ............................. 60
The Path of the Body ......................... 61
The Path of Seeming ......................... 64
The Path of Strife ............................... 67
The Path of Walking Backwards ........ 70
Other Paths ........................................ 73
New Virtues ....................................... 73
New Flaws .......................................... 73
House Merinita 75
History ......................................... 75
The House Divided ........................... 77
200 Years After ................................... 78
The Future of the House .................... 78
House society .............................. 79
The Search for Arcadia ...................... 79
Belief & Mythic Europe ...................... 80
Do Faeries Dream of Counting Sheep?.... 82
The Sundered Realms ........................ 83
Merinita Mysteries ........................ 85
New Virtues ....................................... 85
New Flaws .......................................... 87
New Abilities ...................................... 88
Familiars ............................................. 88
Arcadian Mysteries ............................. 92
Folk Mysteries .................................... 96
Illusion Mysteries ............................. 100
Nature Mysteries .............................. 102
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House Verditius 107
History ....................................... 107
The Cult of Hephaestus ................... 107
The Cult of Vulcan .......................... 108
The Founder Verditius ..................... 108
The Early Years of House Verditius ....... 110
The House After Verditius ............... 110
Crises in the Order .......................... 111
Conflicts in the House ..................... 111
Current Concerns ............................ 112
verditius Magi............................ 112
Apprenticeship ................................. 112
Gauntleted Magus ............................ 113
Journeymen and Masters .................. 113
The Primus ....................................... 114
Prices for Enchantments................... 114
Vendettas .......................................... 115
The Contest ..................................... 116
tHe Mystery cult of verditius ....116
Initiation ... Mysteries of Verditius ..... 117
The Outer Mystery of Verditius Magic . 117
Learning the Inner Mysteries ........... 118
Hubris............................................... 118
Ordeals ............................................. 120
Confraternities ................................. 121
House verditius inner Mysteries .. 123
Enchant Casting Tools ..................... 123
Items of Quality ............................... 124
Reforging Enchanted Items .............. 125
Verditius Elder Runes ....................... 127
Automata .......................................... 128
Bind Curse ........................................ 131
Bind Magical Creatures .................... 134
Item Attunement ...............................135
virtues & flaWs .......................... 135
New Virtues ..................................... 135
New Flaws ........................................ 136
aPPendix: exPanded forM & Material
Bonuses ...................................... 137
Contributors 138