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[Dave Brookshaw]

Oi!

Kindly don't quote something I said three years ago about 1e, before this edition was started, and make it look like I'm commenting on the new team....

[Dave Brookshaw]

In the spirit of being retired, I always considered that the writings Amoniel led the vampires to... Were Utterances.

[Dave Brookshaw]

This. Haven't read second edition, but our intent was that Ki En Gir was in the fertile crescent, and Irem and they had proxy wars - much as Egypt and Mesopotamia did in real life. Maybe a second ed writer misunderstood the bit about the Canaanites paying tribute to Ki En Gir....

[Dave Brookshaw]

It's Oneiroi

[Dave Brookshaw]

Okay, so. Banishers have a chapter in the next book (Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed) giving rules and some sample storyteller characters.

There's multiple phenomena and classes of mages who destroy magic that the Pentacle and Seers sum up with the word "Banisher", much as the only thing a Tremere and a ghost mage have in common is that they're both "Liches".

There's mages who have decided magic is evil on moral or philisophical grounds. There's mages like Logophages and Timori (who on 2e are just a Legacy, not a secret Order) who selfishly fuel...

[Dave Brookshaw]

It's the Temenos Realm of "Fear". Beasts call the Anima Mundi "The Mother's Land", and the not-Primordial Dream Temenos plus all the Onereoi "The Bright Dream"

[Dave Brookshaw]

Yeah. War Against the Pure.

For what it's worth, the Beast Player'S Guide has a section about what crossover splats suffer from being in the Mother's Land (ie, the Beast's flawed understanding of the Ecstatic Wind in the Anima Mundi). Anyways, werewolves are immune to it. In the draft I turned in, I specified that Changing Breeds were, too, but that sentence did not make it to print.

[Dave Brookshaw]

Ghosts operate under the philosophical problem of the Teleporter Problem. The process of creating a ghost almost always coincides with that person dying, but doesn't have to - and in cases where it doesn't, you end up with the living (however badly injured, comatose, or life-alteringly shaken they are) person and their ghost, who has all their memories until the point of divergence.

Which one's the "real" person?

Sin-Eaters firmly come down on the side of "both of them".


(EDIT: the usual supernatural/urban fantasy way of cheating...