Mage/Theme/Orders/Mysterium/Player Roles

These roles are adapted from Mage: the Awakening 1.0 and are subject to revision in play.

NPC Roles

• Hierophant - The Hierophant's role will always be held by an NPC. Largely above worldly concerns, the Hierophant is the highest ranking member in the Mystagogue Caucus. Her wisdom is widely considered above reproach. While there are many who would wish for her to take a more active role in matters, she wouldn't be a Hierophant if she did. Focused primarily in uncovering the Mysteries of the Martyr's Tree and learning all that she might from the Children of the Tree, Cambyses leaves the day to day minutae of operating the Atheneum to her curator Epiphanius. She has an aloof temperament, avoids casual socializing like it's a highly infectious disease, and very rarely has anything at all to say to anyone in the way of small talk. Accordingly, even the faintest words of praise from her are highly coveted by the caucus. The only thing more rare are her words of censure and recrimination. If you merit a talking to from her, you managed to distract her from her mystical studies. A fact she is not likely to forgive easily or ever forget.
  Prerequisites: Mysterium Status 5.
  Current Hierophant: Cambyses

PC Roles

• Curator - Every good collection requires administration, and that's the lot of the Curators. These individuals are gifted researchers, accomplished librarians and scholars, dutiful adherents to the precepts of the Mysterium, and highly invested in their peers. Their knowledge of others allows them to best guide the caucus in practical matters, ensuring ad hoc groupings of Mystagogues are fit to the task assigned to them. While the Hierophant is the highest mystical authority within the Mysterium caucus, the Curators effectively run the Atheneum and manage its personnel. When the Hierophant declines to involve itself in matters, the Curators lead in its stead.
  Prerequisites: Persuasion 2, Academics 4 or Occult 4, Mysterium Status 3.
  Current Curators: Epiphanius

• Savant - Savants are experts in their field, prized for their expertise in a single mystical subject and a single mundane one. Savants exist who can quote you article and subsection of legal codes and the Lex Magica. Others know the vagaries of Mesopotamian civilization and all there is to know on the imbued items of the indigenous Unnamed Orders. In this particular caucus, many savants choose to focus their attention on the Martyr's Tree, or more to the point particular aspects of its function. They work very closely with the Emissariate of the Children of the Tree in this practice, learning and sharing side by side with their peer researchers.
  Prerequisites: Occult 3 with a relevant mystical specialty, Academics 3 with a relevant mundane specialty, Mysterium Status 2.
  Current Savants: Bones, Peri

• Acquisitor - The quintessential Indiana Jones crypto archaeologists, Acquisitors acquire things as their name implies. When Atlantean ruins are uncovered, or ancient storehouses of eldritch knowledge, it is the Acquisitors that are tasked with infiltrating them and drawing out their secrets. Adventurers, explorers, infiltrators, and spies; acquisitors often run afoul of the laws of the Fallen World in pursuit of new understandings of the laws of the Supernal one. It is not unusual for particularly gifted individuals to make their entire career within the Mysterium one of acquisition, rising in status well beyond that required for the position through their exploits.
  Prerequisites: Mysterium Status 1.
  Current Acquisitors: Jinx

• Censor - The least trusted and most reviled position in the caucus is that of censor. Often compared unfavorably to the Guardians of the Veil, censors have the responsibility of locking away unsafe objects and artifacts within the heavily warded censorium. Many mystagogues look down on this practice, though censors maintain they do not hide knowledge away forever, merely until the dangers can be understood and counteracted, allowing the knowledge to be shared freely and safely. That this rarely if ever happens does not in any way diminish their sincerity, of course. It's simply that abyssal relics and the grimoires of the Mad would cheerfully excoriate the souls of the unwary, and the Censor hopes to prevent that sort of thing without taking the Guardian route of destroying the attendant knowledge along with the danger it poses.
  Prerequisites: Mysterium Status 1.
  Current Censors: