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[edit] Events

• Norna Weaver is born.^[1]
• The spring issue of Paradigma features a discussion by Scientist Peebles on the Order of Hermes.^[2]
• Guided by the Progenitors, Desmond Collingsworth graduates high school.^[3]
• T. Farvashti's Sacred Hermaphrodite is published by Sipristi Press.^[4]
• N. Peart's The God of Balance You Shall Be is published by Hemisphere Periodicals.^[4]
• The Arcanum's "Canon," its loosely-defined set of principles, are officially revised this year.^[5]
• The Void Engineers make a half-hearted attempt to capture Deimos, but are foiled by Doissetep.^[6]
• Progenitor Patricia Zevis defects from the Technocracy and joins the Sons of Ether. A hidden gene activates in her creation, the Retinal Encoding Organism, causing it to eat away the user's retina.^[7]
• The "Ghetto Assault." A New York City cabal, including Butch Correlli, make a surprise raid on a Technocracy Construct.^[8]
• Technocratic stooge Noor Taraki tries to bring the Soviet Technocracy into Afghanistan. The Taftâni take advantage of the prevailing Destructive paradigm to drive them off.^[9]
• Lana Bleecher is born.^[10]
• After Hermetic Cagney Brown becomes lost and ends up in an Umbral Court resembling ancient Egypt, she discovers Archibald Lechtmann "employed" as a servant whose job is to place a stopper in the Amphora of Knowledge of the Upper and Lower Nile when Thoth is no longer using it. Lechtmann enjoys his work.^[11]
• Arthur Barrister is born to Robert Allred out of wedlock. Allred has Barrister and his mother captured by a First Team and delivered to Illiad, where Barrister grows up, and is eventually made into a fomor. ^[12]

[edit] May

• May 14: Marianna of Balador is observed and recorded by parties unknown.^[13]

[edit] References

1. ↑ MTA: Loom of Fate, p. 56
2. ↑ MTA: Sons of Ether Tradition Book, p. 44
3. ↑ MTA: Hidden Lore, p. 21
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} MTA: Fragile Path: Testaments of the First Cabal, p. 16
5. ↑ MTA: Halls of the Arcanum, p. 14
6. ↑ MTA: Beyond the Barriers: The Book of Worlds, p. 145
7. ↑ MTA: Technomancer's Toybox, p. 71
8. ↑ MTA: Technomancer's Toybox, p. 77
9. ↑ MTA: Lost Paths: Ahl-i-Batin & Taftâni, p. 66
10. ↑ MTA: Tradition Book: Celestial Chorus, p. 79
11. ↑ MTA: The Book of Madness Revised, p. 116
12. ↑ WTA:'Rage across the world vol.3, p.82
13. ↑ MTA: Horizon: Stronghold of Hope, p. 27

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