We watch the currents and eddies of time and fate. We plan the rise and fall of nations. A single robbery or the murder of a single Sleeper of no importance can shape the destinies of millions.
While all Seers of the Throne serve the Exarchs and attempt to shape the world to best accommodate both their ambitions and the Exarchs’ desires, the Architects of the Future are especially dedicated to shaping the world to come. The goals of these mages are two-fold. They seek to examine the details of the future and then to prune it like a bonsai. Their goal is to allow only those events to occur that further their particular aims. In addition to shaping the future to meet their needs, the Architects also attempt to quest deep into the Astral Realm, exploring the edges of the Anima Mundi for clues as to the wishes, desires and ultimately the nature of the Exarchs. They then incorporate any insights they gain about the Exarchs into their plan for the future.
This Legacy is slightly more than 500 years old. It was founded in Florence in the late 15th century, when travelers brought back many previously lost or unknown texts from the Middle and Far East. A few of these seemingly mundane texts were actually long-lost grimoires that the founders of this Legacy used as the inspiration and basis for its attainments. When it first began, the Architects were exclusively focused on learning to shape the future in a precise and exacting fashion so as to advance their founders’ agenda. The Legacy was crafted so as to provide members with both the knowledge and understanding needed to examine the future and discern the actions needed to obtain their desires. The Attainments also provided members with the tools needed to help them accomplish these actions. However, within a few decades some of the senior members of the Legacy began to question the wisdom of shaping the future in such a precise fashion with no regard to the plans of the Exarchs. Several argued that acting purely in the interests of the members might cause their agenda to contradict the wishes of the Exarchs, which could lead to utter disaster if the Exarchs decided to punish them. Also, a few of the more philosophically inclined members believed that the Exarchs have a divine plan for the Fallen World, and that it was the duty of the Architects to attempt to discover these plans.
Several of the founding Architects believed that the best way to contact the Exarchs was to explore the further reaches of the Astral Realm. To enable them to more effectively accomplish this, they forged a path to the Omphalos of the Anima Mundi that was only open to other Architects. From here, they could explore out to the furthest edges of the Anima Mundi, looking for clues and hints as to the Exarchs’ plans and desires. Definitive answers are effectively impossible when exploring the Astral Realms, and Architects frequently argue about the nature and meaning of any discoveries one of their number makes when exploring the furthest depths of the Anima Mundi. However, they still treat these experiences are worthy of consideration and all Architects take an oath to record all of their journeys into the Astral Realm.
To attempt to make sense of the Exarchs and to keep track of their various manipulations of the future, the Architects of the Future created several large libraries containing records of every major prophecy and every astral journey their members have made for the last 500 years. These records are as much as source of power for the Architect as their attainments. This information also provides unique insight into both the nature of the Anima Mundi and many details of success and failure when attempting to manipulate the future.
The Architects are an unusual Legacy in that only the most powerful members gain the knowledge and insight needed to divine the pattern of the future, create the plans needed to change it or to attempt to learn the Exarchs’ desires. Less powerful and experienced members learn how to vastly increase their effectiveness in performing various
tasks, but gain no special insights into how best to applytheirefforts.Membersbeginasagentsorfoot soldiers and work their way to becoming leaders
and planners.
Attainments
- The Spider's Edge
- Sensing Danger
- Weaving the Future
