Recommend Mage novels to me

[CTPhipps]

Also, I freely admit Penny Dreadful is my WOD waifu and am down with middle aged mom Goth.

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Okay, way TMI.

[AscentionTheMage]

Please do not use the word retarded that way. It is a dehumanizing slur against disabled people.

I will comply with this request.

[CTPhipps]

Please do not use the word retarded that way. It is a dehumanizing slur against disabled people.

Please in fact report any uses of said word.

[Erinys]

Please do not use the word retarded that way. It is a dehumanizing slur against disabled people.

[AscentionTheMage]

For a new Penny Dreadfull Novel I would focus on this. Penny is essentially the mother figure of the two kids she babysits who both happen to be Kinfolk. In the Modern day the girl breeds true and becomes Garou whilst the boy joins the Verbena as a hedge druid and eventualy awakens. It's not much but it's a start. Also do we want Penny to look her age (she's in her late 40s early 50s now) or does she still look young for one reason or another?

[AscentionTheMage]

Penny Dreadful, absolutely. It is a joy.

You might want to check out the two short stories that precede it in Truth Until Paradox(Silver Nutmeg, Golden Pear and Grim Reminders) as well.

The fact that we never got a sequel is fucking criminal

[No One of Consequence]

No, it is a book about ancient magic styles/cultures (Ancient Magics would've been a better title IMO). The first book talked about Greco-Roman, Aztec/Incan, Babylonian, and ... I'm blanking on what else. Part two was Norse, Celtic/European shamanism, Polynesian, Australian, Innuit, and Indian/Vedic stuff IIRC.

[Erinys]

Well apparently that was from Dead Magic II. That's not a book of stories, is it?

[Erinys]

I hope it's OK to revive this with a new question.

I once saw an excerpt from some novel. A Mage, seems to be newly Awakened, hangs himself from Yggdrasil. Some spirit, maybe Ratatosk or a bird, is giving him an overview of the cosmos, Norse-style. Yggdrasil = the whole Tellurian, Mid-Garth = the material world, I think Alfheim and Nidavellir and Svartalfheim are the Dreaming, Nifhlheim = the Underworld, and so on.

Was this part of a Mage novel? Which one? Is it good?

[Black Flag]

Has anyone read Truth Beyond Paradox?

I’m a few stories in, not nearly finished. So far it’s pretty trippy, and the authors have done a good job of avoiding game jargon and instead focusing on the subjective experiences of the focus characters, who don’t always have a context for what’s going on. Hell, I don’t always have a context for what’s going on, which is fine because they’re stories first and game-related materials second. We’ll see how the rest of it goes.

[baakyocalder]

A novella was unlocked in the Technocracy Reloaded Kickstarter when it hit $162,000. At $167,000 in funding, a second novella will be unlocked.

About $3000 more to that second novella as of this post. The novella is at any PDF reward level, so that's $30 U.S. pledge to get the novella and Technocracy Reloaded and all the Companion book giving you a lot of Mage story options.

The Kickstarter finishes on May 28--you can still get it on it or up your pledge.

The Fragile Path is very interesting and good for giving some history of the Traditions--you have stories and even songs (for Bernadette from the Celestial Chorus).

[Justycar]

I agree with The Fragile Path, it a very good text, based on the renaissance and the creation of the traditions. However, I do not recommend Time of Judgement, the Ascension final novel for the Mage end times. I did not enjoyed at all and the characters were strange and boring to me, a Wu keng infernalist-transsexual-wicht and a New York city shaman of the trash (his avatar was a golem of cans and newspapers). I also do not recommend Road to Hell, even being the antonomasial lore novel, it is a crossover of high fantasy with plain characters, very bi-dimensional, the kind of villains with evil mustaches...

[Thebian]

It is not exactly a novel, but I love "The fragile path".

Yeah, Fragile Path is really great.

It's a collection of in-universe documents (testaments, accounts, stories, lyrics etc.) that tell the tale of the First Cabal. I span a whole chronicle off the ideas in it. Great stuff.

[rickayelm]

I always liked Mister Magic. It was first printed in The Quintessential World of Darkness anthology. It is about the awakening and initial trading of a Cult of Ecstasy mage.

[Alqamar Alaswad]

It is not exactly a novel, but I love "The fragile path".