Magical Groups in My Campaigns
Crimson Circle, The
- Headquarters: Mackelby Club, Upper Queen Anne Hill, Downtown
(AAA security).
- Type: Initiatory
- Members: 6
- Strictures: Fraternity, Material Link, Routine Gathering (1
per 2 wks), Secrecy
- Resources/Dues: 3k per month
This is a dyed-in-the-wool classic group of scholarly wizard
types. They were elegant red robes and their gatherings involve
Latin phraseology and more ceremony than the average group. Their
goal is increasing their magical power and skills. Ideally, this
includes prudence and self-control. On the whole, the group is
quite wealthy, their headquarters is very much like the gentleman's
clubs of Victorian England.
- Drake (Human Male Corporate Mage) - A middle-aged man with
a strong presence. He is quiet and a man of few words, but his
words carry weight with those around him. Drake is a very skilled
Mage, possessing a wide variety of spells of all types and appears
to have a remarkable knowledge of metamagic. He is generally
not available except at the regular group meetings.
- Silver (Elven Female Corporate Negotiator) - An inhumanly
attractive Elven woman, one is not likely to quickly forget
meeting Silver. Her form, while still lithe by Human standards
is somewhat voluptuous for an Elf. She appears to wear no makeup
but her natural beauty has a palpable radiance. Her hair is
cut short and accents her face further. She tends to dress in
a single layer of lightly colored gossamer clothes, leaving
little to the imagination while still covering her from head
to toe. Her speech borders on soft music and those that meet
her have little doubt that she is very successful as a corporate
negotiator. Sasha's spells focus on protection and control manipulation.
- Sasha (Human Female Security Mage) - One of the more clinical
members, Sasha has a quiet beauty about her that is often hidden
behind a bookish exterior accented by archaic but stylish glasses,
an affectation common among Hermetic Mages. She appears to be
one of the more well-read members of the group and has an opinion
on virtually every subject and at least one or teo ideas how
to improve on things, whether or not they need improving. Sasha
is a generalist Mage, having a wide variety of spells.
- Jonah (Human Male Corporate Mage) - One of the more overt
personalities in the group, Jonah is reminiscent of a travelling
salesman. He's always telling witty anecdotes, being actively
affable, and trying to make sure everyone is having a good time.
Jonah favors air and water magic.
- Jacob (Ork Male Dilettante Mage) - Jake is a dilettante. His
family is very wealthy and comprised mostly of humans and Elves
from Tir Tairngire. In a nutshell, he gets as much money as
he wants as long as he indulges his curiosity in such a way
that he stays our from underfoot of his family, which view Jake
and his Ork genetics as a skeleton in the family closet. Jake
sometimes rivals Sasha on his breadth of knowledge, but he generally
knows only the most topical information. He favors Illusion
and Health spells for amusement, mischief, and personal enhancement.
- Titus
Crucible
- Type: Initiatory
- Members: 9
- Strictures: Attendance, Deed, Limited Membership (Magicians),
Material Link, Secrecy
- Resources/Dues: 1k per month
- Customs:
- Members:
- Brimstone (Hermetic Mage, Male Spanish Human) - Fifi's
contact. A confident and forward man that seems perpetually
victorious and strong, even in defeat. His leadership of
the group seems unquestioned.
- Prometheus (Fire Mage, Male Human Caucasian) - Prometheus
is a quite little man who is intimidating only by virtue
of the fact that he looks eager to burn anyone or anything;
the small flames that occasionally dance in his pupils don't
help. In speech, he is normal enough, but a casual observer
would feel the urge to move their home and buy a fire extinguisher
right away.
- White Russian (Wolf Shaman, Female Russian Elf) - White
is somewhat unpredictable, adopting an aloof watchful stance
or an aggressive in-your-face approach. She is lean and
muscular, dressing somewhat scantily in short skirts and
plunging necklines, with short cropped white hair cut to
adopt the latest avante garde style. Small, silver-blue
shades sit low on her nose.
- Duke (Lion Shaman, Germanic Male Human) - With long hair
in a flowing mane, it's not hard to guess Duke's totem.
An air of arrogance wafts from him like heavy cologne.
- Lucy (Gator Shaman, Mongrel Female Troll) - No one knows
Lucy's ethnicity, least of all Lucy. She has a strange mix
of caucasian, latino, and african features, which are further
confused by irregular bony deposits and a gray-green skin
tone.
- Fifi (Shark Shaman, Franco Female Ork)
Kamibudo House
- Type: Initiatory
- Members: 8 (including Piker)
- Strictures: Fraternity, Limited Membership (Martial Artists),
Material Link, Secrecy
- Resources/Dues: 1k per month
- Customs:
- Members
- Angus MacGruder
- Ms. Kim
- Digger (Physical Shaman, African Male Ork) - Digger is
a solidly built Ork with a dark black complexion. He was
raised in Seattle by his African parents. He keeps a very
short-cropped afro hair style and wears small, dark, spectacle
sunglasses. His demeanor is typically stern and his speech
laconic.
- Piker
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Lodge of the Wolf, The
- Type: Initiatory
- Members: 7 (including Arrow)
- Strictures: Fraternity, Limited Membership (Hunters), Material
Link, Secrecy
- Resources/Dues: 1k per month
- Customs:
- Members
- Cougar - Elven woman
- Digger (Physical Shaman, African Male Ork) - Digger is
a solidly built Ork with a dark black complexion. He was
raised in Seattle by his African parents. He keeps a very
short-cropped afro hair style and wears small, dark, spectacle
sunglasses. His demeanor is typically stern and his speech
laconic.
- Frank - Male Ork,
- Human female male, Neil
- Human male, Gragori
- Ork woman [Kate] - Very butch, tomboy woman. She spends
the vast majority of her time hunting paranormal animals
and makes her living off of bounties, trophies, and paranormal
animal taxidermy.
- Arrow
Order of the Steel Lodge, Seattle
Circle
- Type: Initiatory
- Members: 7 (including Ajax)
- Strictures: Attendance, Limited Membership (Shamans and Adepts
of Urban Totems, Mages), Material Link, Secrecy
- Resources/Dues: 1k per month
- Customs: The Order of the Steel Lodge was originally founded
in Seattle within a when a pair of newly Awakened Gargoyle Shamans
found one another perching atop the Tasker Building in the heart
of Downtown. They talked and each others' words made so much
sense. They continued to meet and slowly found other followers
of their Totem. In 2030, they decided to form the Order of the
Steel Lodge. Since then, other Circles have popped up in major
urban centers, but the Seattle Circle serves as a global headquarters
of sorts.
- Settle Circle: They are based out of the top floor of the
Tasker Building, a tall glass building with gothic nuances in
the heart of Downtown. All members have the option of working
for the front company that owns the floor, Sixth World Services,
but it is not required nor strongly encouraged.
- Sixth World Services: A company that provides magical services
and advice. Common services:
- Magical Security Consulting - Their mixed team approach allows
SWS to Identify measures that need to be set up and weaknesses
in existing security, as well as providing the solutions.
- Corporate Training - Expensive classes for executives and
security chiefs aimed at educating them about magical resources
and how they can help or hurt them.
- Arbitration and Negotiation - SWS has a reputation of providing
a decisive edge in negotiations of any kind. Providing mental
links between team members, identifying lies, detecting weapons,
and other forms of scrying. SWS is known to handle less formal
[and more shady] deals as well, providing exceptional security
when it's needed most.
- VIP Bodyguard Services - When you need the very best, SWS
can provide it. All of our Protective Services staff are skilled
in magical defense [even the adepts] and can neutralize magical
and mundane threats alike.
- Members
- Thomas Smythe (Human Gargoyle Shaman) - The most bookish
and scholarly of the group, he appears to be in his mid-forties
and wears delicate, high quality spectacles that seem to
perfectly match his clothing. His medium length brown hair
is loosely combed back; combined with his brown eyes, he
has an earthy look to him. Overall, he has a strange mixture
of a corporate and scholarly look. He is friendly but tends
to be distracted with thoughts of his current topic of research.
Thomas is one of the charter members of the group.
- James Roland (Human Gargoyle Shaman) - James is corporate
from head to toe. He appears to be in his thirties and wears
an impeccably fashionable suit. His black eyes match the
jet black hair which he keeps in a short, Ceasar cut. He
generally only does negotiation work and often fills up
his free time with freelance negotiation work. It seems
his greatest joy in life is sitting back quietly in a board
room, listening attentively, and then pouncing when he has
enough information to argue the end he desires.
- Phil Simms (Human Mage) - Phil is one of the charter members,
but he has no desire to be in charge. He will still set
up Elementals at sites, but prefers to be involved in decision-making
rather than the grunt work. He likes to work on the tougher
contracts, especially those that require innovative or creative
solutions. He wears casual business clothes and parts his
sandy blonde hair down the middle. His brown eyes are usually
in the grips of a warm and friendly smile.
- Monica Lindo (Human Gargoyle Shaman) - Monica's primary
goal is to have fun in life. She is not reckless about it.
She will identify a suitable playmate, check him out, and
if he seems all right, then watch out. She has slept with
almost every male staff member that SWS has hired, to include
a few of the Group members. Her current idea of an ideal
world is one in which she has a harem of about six men at
her beck and call. She is generally invovled in negotiations-work
and is always willing to go the extra mile behind doors
to seal a deal, sometimes too willing. Her eyes are dark
brown and she generally winks whenever a man looks at her.
Her hair is straight, black, and cut in a bob fashion. Combined
with her mannerisms and slinky, form-fitting dresses, she
is something of a 2058 version of a Flapper, although a
real Flapper's habits would probably be too tame for her.
Her light chocolate brown complexion and features suggest
a Central or South American heritage.
- Lisa Pratt (Ork Gargoyle Adept) - Lisa works hard and
plays hard. Name a sport and she has done it in one form
or another. She is hard to find on the weekends, when she
usually leaves town for some remote spot or resort for skiing,
hiking, hand gliding, kayaking, you name it. She is the
most fit and muscular member of SWS, and even gives Fred
a run for his money in sparring, in spite of his skill.
She likes her work, but she also likes her free time. She
will never be at work after hours unless someone requires
it of her. She almost always works as a VIP bodyguard, lacking
the tact for negotations work.
- George Innis (Human Mage) - George is a very meticulous
man and a workaholic. He is the most likely to be working
late on a given night and he has been known to often personally
go out and check up on sites. A large chunk of his work
consists of setting up Elemental guards. He dresses in very
mainstream corporate clothing. His black hair and blue eyes
are remarkably average, as is his demeanor. His slight pallor
suggest a man that spends too much time indoors.
- Lin Sun (Elven Shinto Gargoyle Shaman) - Lin is a Miko,
a practitioner of Shinto magic. She brings some variety
to SWS with her ability to conjure and interact with Ancestor
Spirits instead of Nature Spirits. This garners a number
of contracts from Japanese Corporations. Lin is much more
important to SWS's success than she understands or will
admit. Lin looks like a slim, nubile version of a china
doll. Her skin has a light complexion which provides a striking
contrast to her straight black hair and piercing emerald
green eyes. She is a picture of female Asian beauty and
is still unfathomably humble, which may explain why the
Ancestors like her so much.
- Fred "Grey Hawk" Chokota (Human Tribal Gargoyle
Shaman) - Fred is corporate with a certain swagger. He always
has a few visible items of clothing or jewelry that proudly
indicates his Tribal heritage. He is more physical than
some of the others at SWS due to his background in the Sioux
special forces. His pedigree goes a long way when he works
on security contracts. Fred also enjoys being a bodyguard
and is often one of the folks that volunteers for the more
shady jobs. Fred is an even six feet tall. His long straight
black hair is pulled into a pony tail with a silver and
tourqoise beret. His black eyes seem to see everything.
He has a very lean muscular build and a weathered complexion.
He seems to have a gift for looking grim and intimidating.
SINless Dragons
- Type: Initiatory
- Members: 7
- Strictures: Fraternity, Limited Membership (Martial Artists),
Material Link, Secrecy
- Resources/Dues: 1k per month
- Customs:
- Members
- [Kenji Whitedeer] Kami (Physical Mage, male Amerindian
Human) - Considerably older than the older members, Kami
is in his mid-40s. His abilities are shrouded in mystery,
but he has demonstrated the abilities of a Shaman and a
Physical Adept. Although the spiritual leader of the group,
Kami spends the bulk of his time in meditation, study, and
practice. Kami has always been Kami; as the oldest member
of the group, it is uncertain if he chose the name, which
means "spirit", or if it is his true name. Kami
runs a shop specializing in herbs, with a steady talismongering
business in the background. He also runs a small Buddhist
temple in the Puyallup district, on the outskirts of Loveland.
- Bushi (Physical Adept, male Asian Ork) - A consummate
warrior; skilled in all forms of melee; channels his magic
into making himself faster, tougher, and stronger. Bushi
is the least spiritual of the group, and tends to take direct
approaches to accomplish his goals. Bushi did not so much
choose his name, as it chose him. Bushi works as a bodyguard
to pay his bills.
- Kaze (Physical Mage, male Mulatto-Asian Elf) - Kaze ("wind")
lives up to his name. He can walk on wind, move without
sound, and fell even the mightiest tree. Wind is mute, though
he claims the wind speaks for him and to him. Kaze's occupation
is uncertain, but he seems to live well.
- Shinshi (Shaman, male asian human) - Shinshi was given
his name by Kami; it means "spirit man". Shinshi
is a Wujen Shaman, following the path of Wuxing, and relying
upon the spirits of traditional Asian elements and ancestors.
He is still a novice, but studies intensely when time permits.
He helps Kami run his shop and temple.
- Shinobi (Physical Adept, female Hispanic human) - Raised
among housekeepers of expensive hotels and corporations,
Shinobi learned to be inconspicuous, how to listen, and
where people keep their secrets. She has mastered the ability
to hide in plain sight. She chose the name "Shinobi"
after the name of the spies and counter espionage agents
of ancient Japan. Shinobi owns an employment agency that
provides temporary and permanent custodial services for
corporations.
- Geisha (Physical Mage, female Asian Human) - Geisha is
a quietly stunning woman. Her physical form is flawless
and her charisma is such that is compels complete strangers
to aid her. She is also a skilled user of drugs, poison,
and seemingly innocuous weapons. Geisha lives very well
off her income as a freelance corporate negotiator.
- Oni (Taro, a player chacacter)
Wagner House
- Type: Initiatory
- Members: 10
- Strictures: Fraternity, Limited Membership (Combat Medical
Types), Material Link, Secrecy
- Resources/Dues: 1k per month
- Customs:
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