Tomes of Magick: Zero Edition, Part 1

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Adam and Pooka crack open a lost treasure — Mage: The Ascension, Zero Edition, a 1993 manuscript that shaped the game’s future. They share laughs, lore, share their thoughts on what was best left behind and what is ready to drop into your game, and a few “what were they thinking?” moments, from cosmic origins to dream magic and immortal mages. Don’t be a Copernicus.

Show Notes

Stuart Wieck’s original cosmology: The Prime, Quintessence, and Dynamic Force
Dream magic, the Near Umbra, and Dream Lords
Early lore links to Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Ars Magica
The origins of Avatars (“Gift Spirits”) and Essence Families
The role of Pure Ones and their echoes in later Mage editions
Differences between Zero Edition and Mage: The Ascension (First Edition)
The concept of Evolutes — the five stages of Ascension
Technocrats as self-aware mages upholding the “cold lie of science”
Copernicus and the cosmic betrayal that started the Ascension War
Early versions of Quiet, Mindscapes, and the origin of Boogeymen and Dark Births
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