Mage the Ascension Lore: The Traditions 

*Akashic Brotherhood:* We are enlightened warriors who are very bad at being pacifists *Celestial Chorus:* We believe in the Unity of faith but have trouble reconciling all its expressions *Cult of Ecstasy:* We are surprisingly wise but we have trouble staying in the moment *Dreamspeakers:* We know the borders between dreams and reality are thin, but only a skilled mediator can convince them to cross over to our aid *Euthanathos:* We are the pruners that allow karma to grow healthy, but we find the call of your grave hard to resist *Order of Hermes:* We make the biggest messes but are peerless at standardizing magical knowledge *Sons of Ether:* The creative mind can invent anything, but scalability is not our forte *Verbena:* We are enduring and accomplish the impossible by natural might, but what we ask you to sacrifice may be more than you were willing to pay *Virtual Adepts:* We manipulate the illusory universe's code to make a better reality, too bad our methods are difficult to understand and very expensive *Hollow Ones:* Whatever works, works, don't ask us for a consistent theory

Mage lore is always on high demand! Thanks for quenching my thirst.

Keep making content, not throwing shade at anyone but you’re quite the refresher from some of the other World of Darkness lore channels

Akashic mage: “I cast magically enhanced fist”

Of all the settings in WoD I always loved Mage but never got a chance to run or play a game in it. Old school stuff still shines with originality and rad possibilities. Great vids and channel

Love these summaries, great for helping knew people get the gist of who they can play as.

I'm just now learning to GM WoD games, starting with mage, and your videos are SO helpful for learning the lore

Glad to see you chipping away at mage! One of my favorite! Dreamspeaker history is great.

I imagine a group of mages who daylight as a British rock band in the 80s, like Def Leppard, who defend themselves from vampires, werewolves, the technocracy, and Society of Leopold in their down time.

I was just looking into this a couple days ago for an NPC in my VTM chronicle. Good timing!

I would argue that the origins of the Hollow Ones date more back to the early Romantics of the 19th Century. In my current game set in 1895, they are under serious consideration for joining the Traditions (future betrayal notwithstanding). Of the Traditions you haven't covered in full videos so far, I'd love to see the Verbena or Sahajiya covered.

As per the infamous Mr Welch list, a Verbena weighs more than a duck.

Tremere when they see a Hermetic in their domain: ah fuck Toreador when they see a Hollow One in their domain: ah fuck yeah

Great video as always. Mage always interested me but I never had the time (and courage) to dive into the lore.

Thank you for that, Sir. I'm dusting off Mage since we were not playing it since highschool and this is a nice ease back into the concept for my players.

Always cool to see another upload

Best World Of Darkness Lore channel here on RU-vid. By far. Always happy when I see a new one in my notifications.

I once played a ecstatic who was a traveling hypnotist of the “mundane” variety. Focused pretty heavily into the mind sphere

Thanks for this video!

Given how the objective of Ascension is to increase your knowledge and power until you reach a state of godhood, you could easily reflavor the Akashic Brotherhood as a Cultivation story.

Thank you for Upload :)

I love mage lore thank you for another great video.

The Traditions are literally the Shadow Wizard Money Gang

Nice. Is that the black mirror soundtrack?

I recently discovered your channel. Please keep doing it. Do you happen to have it on Spotify or some other platform? I absolutely love your mage and wraith videos. Thank you.

Will you ever do the Taftani?

I really like the world of darkness take on supernatural

what hapeen to the mages in the morden night?

Your audio sounds a little rough, but otherwise, good video.

SCIENCE!

Comment for the algorithm

What's with the audio?

Can we get top 10 mages from each tradition?

I like your videos, but you need a better microphone. 😅