Sometimes, the difference between blind luck and superlative skill is less clear than you’d imagine. However, let’s not worry about that now...
This Legacy was founded in the mid 18th century by a group of wealthy and powerful British, French and later American women who were also mages. Given the constraints of social expectations about their proper role as wealthy society women, female mages who did not wish to give up their social position or family ties needed to learn to use their magic in a particularly subtle and discreet manner. This Legacy developed as an outgrowth of this effort and by the early 19th century it had become very popular with middle and upper class female mages from Western Europe and North America.
Although it opened its membership to men in the early 1970s, the Legacy’s basic principles remain the same — members are people who maintain a mundane and socially respectable front in mortal society. The Blessed, as they are known, are especially skilled at the art of deception and specifically in keeping up appearances. They have learned to use their magic and their Attainments to accomplish their goals in a manner that avoids drawing any attention to themselves. Some members strive to be overlooked, while others discretely work to become centers of social attention. However, above all else members make certain they avoid any appearance of secrecy or ambition beyond their station and most of the Blessed make certain to keep their goals as secret as their magic.
Even within the society of mages, many of the Blessed strive to work behind the scenes. A few appear as unworldly scholars of magic, and others seem to be amusing but largely harmless dilettantes, but most have as many ambitions within their order as they do in the mortal world. Rival mages often suspect the Blessed of all manner of intricate and devious plans, but have great difficulty separating fact from speculation or deliberately stopping their efforts because the Blessed are protected against discovery or opposition. Blessed who are especially interested in power within the various orders of mages often conceal their membership in this Legacy.
Blessed who allow other mages to learn of their membership usually focus their efforts upon bending mortals to their wishes. However, they are often able to use their influence among wealthy and powerful mortals as a way to bargain with other mages who need their aid.
Attainments
- Good Fortune
- Exclusive Benediction
- Accidental Auspices
