Sons of Ether

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Name:	Son of Ether, Etherite
Plural:	Sons of Ether, Etherites
Pronounciation:	suhnz' uhv ee'-thur
Nicknames:
Seat:	Matter
Faction:	Council of Nine Mystic Traditions

Contents 1 Paradigm 2 History 3 Early History 3.1 Dark Ages 3.2 Renaissance 3.3 Victorian Age 3.4 Modern Nights 4 Organization 4.1 Factions 5 Version Differences

[edit] Paradigm

Key to the Sons' paradigm is Science (the word is always capitalised to distinguish it from the science of sleepers). Exotic theories of orgone fields, hypercombustion chambers and etheric transmission matrices enable the Etherites to create even more weird and wonderful devices. Their Science almost always has a baroque feel, as if leapt from the pages of pulp fiction or Victorian sci-fi - death rays, robotic servants built of brass and powered by clockwork and fantastic space or aquatic vehicles spring to mind when others discuss the Sons of Ether.

[edit] History

[edit] Early History

[edit] Dark Ages

• 1171
  • House Golo Ex Miscellanea is founded with the Order of Hermes by Lorenzo Golo.

• 1188
  • After clashes with House Verditius, House Golo disbanded.
  • Lorenzo Golo and Simon de Laurent found Natural Philosopher's Guild.

• 1190
  • Laurent excommunicated.

• 1193
  • Natural Philosopher's Guild disbands; members join various Conventions of the Order of Reason.

• 1195
  • Lorenzo Golo creates balloon airship; dies when it explodes.

[edit] Renaissance

• 1325
  • Order of Reason founded. The Order began to apply scientific principles to the world around them in an attempt to catalogue and control it. Part of this goal was to protect humanity at large from the 'supernatural'. Some former House Golo members join. The various factions within the Order become known as Conventions.
• 1700s
  • Voltaic Order founded on the precepts of Alessandro Volta.

[edit] Victorian Age

• 1851
  • The Order of Reason undergoes a reorganisation at the Great Exposition in London. From this point on they are known as the Technocratic Union or Technocracy. Some Conventions are abolished, some are combined and some are formed. Among those renamed are the Voltaic Order, rechristened as the Electrodyne Engineers, who focus on the transmission of energy in all it's forms. One of their popular theories is the existence of luminiferous Ether.
• 1904
  • The Technocracy vote to eliminate the concept of ether from the Consensus. This is seen by most as a message from the New World Order to the Engineers to "stay in line". The Convention rebels and defects to the Traditions, renaming themselves the Sons of Ether.

[edit] Modern Nights

[edit] Organization

[edit] Factions

• Adventurers
• Cybernauts
• Ethernauts
• Mad Scientists
• Progressivists
• Utopians

[edit] Version Differences

Mage: The Ascension Traditions

Akashic Brotherhood · Celestial Chorus · Cult of Ecstasy · Dreamspeakers · Euthanatoi · Order of Hermes · Sons of Ether · Verbena · Virtual Adepts · Hollow Ones