Cult of the Doomsday Clock

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This is a Left Handed Legacy

On July 17, 1997, the Past Masters, a powerful Mysterium cabal specializing in scrying the distant past to recon- struct the magic of ancient cultures, finally cornered the March of History, a Seers of the Throne group devoted to historical revision and occlusion. Their battle spilled out of the March of History’s sanctum at a university campus. Doz- ens of students saw two of the world’s leading masters of Time casting vulgar magic against each other.

None of the mages survived, body or soul. Investigators from the Guardians of the Veil recovered the bodies. The Guardians could only obtain glimpses of how the mages died. The investigators found a massive surge of Paradox and one clear image: a member of the Past Masters being slain by — himself (!)— but the other self carried a large pocket watch with a death’s-head engraved on the cover. Behind them, the tattered edges of the world frayed into the Abyss.

Since then, mages who look like the deceased Mysterium mages and Seers have mounted attacks around the World of Darkness. They kill selected people (both mages and Sleepers), steal soulstones and Artifacts with powers of Time, Fate or Death, and destroy various objects, buildings and locations whose significance remains obscure. They cause a lot of Paradox in the process. Always, they carry the death’s-head watches. One mage who survived a clash with these murderous and destructive dopplegangers learned a name: the Cult of the Doomsday Clock.

Worried mages have learned little about the Cult. The doppleganger-mages routinely use magic to block attempts to scry on them after the fact. Mages of the orders soon found, however, that the Cult seeks new members from the Moros Path. What’s worse, the Cult sometimes locates newly-Awakened mages and brings them into its fold. In 2000, the Cult issued its first manifesto as part of a drive to attract new members. As the Legacy’s name suggests, the Cult wants to destroy the world. Not just to destroy civilization, or humanity; they want to destroy the Fallen World in toto, material realm and Shadow Realm alike. Only then, they say, can the souls of mages escape the vile prison that is Creation and ascend to the Supernal World.

No one can imagine how the Cult of the Doomsday Clock could actually annihilate the world. But no one could have imagined a Paradox eruption creating evil twins of the mages involved, either. The more the orders learn about this Legacy, however, the more certain they are that the Cult must be destroyed — for every clue about the Cult’s origins, masters and magic points straight to the Abyss.

Attainments

• Time Out of Joint
• Bid Time Return
• Off the Clock