- Some general considerations concerning the ramifications of these Events on your Campaign.
- The Secrets that Archangels were not meant to know.
- Where are they now! Some contentious suggestions!
- The Department of Dirty Tricks for confounding your AAs
- Revisions to the IN Game Mechanics concerning Skill Specialities and the Thaumaturgical Attunement
- Rewards for the Team members
- D/M's Full Colour Coded Map of Cairo 22.6 KB
- Colour Coded Key to above Map
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- Link to Rules (Non Frame)
- Link to the Homepage of The Art™ of In Nomine Articles (3.2 MB)
- Link to Task Difficulty Equivalence Table
" I have come unto thee, O son of Nut. Osiris - Prince of Everlastingness;
I am in the following of the God Thoth, and have rejoiced at everything
which he hath done for thee. He brought the sweet air into thy
nostrils, and life and strength to thy beautiful face; and the
north wind which cometh forth from Shu for thy lungs, O lord of
Ta-tchesert. He made the god Atum to shine upon thy body; he illumined
thy path with rays of light; he destroyed for thee the faults
and defects of thy members by the magical power of the words of
his mouth;..."
What follows are various notes not central to the Campaign but nevertheless of general utility or careful consideration. They include:
General Considerations
- For fear of offending all the active non Judeo-Christian religions: Primarily Hinduism. The latter being criminally overlooked in the theocratic balance of power, with Zero column inches in Revelations II: The Marches (Yes, that's no mention at all for one of the most complex and fertile and fourth or fifth most active religions in the world. Some mistake surely SJ and requiring nay demanding another Campaign Supplement.)
- The Egyptian Pantheon has an enduring history that continues to this day. Other Myth Cycles of the Middle East having been eroded until they are of purely scholastic interest. What other Great Goddess of Antiquity still has her Rites (in the form of Son et Lumîère) every night witnessed by a global audience; with a recent world wide effort to rebuild Her Temple!
- A wealth of Gaming material on Ancient Egypt which just goes to
show that it was the place to Game in the Ancient World.
- Indeed it might be claimed that the Egyptians were the first to invent the Board Game Senet.
- At least one gaming system "The Valley of the Pharaohs" and two supplements SJ/ICE (three if you count Gary G's Aegypt!)
- The other classical Pantheon of Greek Deities (and their Roman
counterparts) were assimilated into the Greek Orthodox and Roman
Catholic Churches as Local or Patron Saints and thus given a Role
in Heaven.
It is ultimately up to you, as a literal Deus ex Machina, to approve of this thought experiment and allow its ramifications to further complicate the Celestial Politics of your IN campaign. Or allow a brief flowering of reason before the forces of conservatism crush it mercilessly.
Remember Big Dominic is Watching YOU!
This Campaign Module is written with the underlying tenet that Ra the God of the Egyptians redefined Himself during the Aten Heresy as a Monotheistic Deity using an Orwellian Ministry of Truth henceforth "MiniJust" to rewrite history. This Ministry in time becoming the Halls of Judgement. Needless to say all Angels and most Archangels although they have memories stretching back to the Creation are in fact less than 3000 years old!
Thus there are interesting gaming ramifications to a Celestial Campaign. q.v..
- The Prisoner TV Series and SJ Supplement: "Be Holy, Be See-ing Thou"{Sorry!}
- Paranoia West End Games: " I'm sorry you require ultra violet wings for
that information. Remember Dominic is your friend!'
Some of the inhabitants of the Celestial 'Village/Complex' will be aware of this secret, being Elder Gods assimilated by Ra and now masquerading as Archangels. Just who these are is up to you (See "The secrets that Archangels were not meant to know" below.) The problem facing the Players as relatively minor 'Villagers' now aware that "all is not as it seems"; becomes identifying just who is a 'Prisoner' and who is a 'Warder' without being caught and being forced to give "Information"!
Some Ethereal Elder Gods may thus merely be a Manifestation or Aspect of an Archangel, who is secretly the original Ethereal deity uplifted to the new Realm by Ra/Aten/The God of the Hebrews. This lesser Ethereal Spirit being an independent scion of Forces 'in circulation' on the Ethereal Realm merely to maintain the masquerade! Conversely an Archangel or Angel may merely be a scion of an Elder God acting under deep cover in the Celestial Realm to keep an Eye on the proceedings! q.v. Isis
An interesting and Illuminating corollary to this thought experiment concerns the Fall of Lucifer and creation of Hell. This could be now be ascribed to a falling out between Ptah as the divine Creator and Ra as the (original) Bringer of Light. The latter deciding that "Non Serviam" was the only alternative and setting off, accompanied by all the other disaffected Elder Gods, to create his own version of the Cosmos . This of course was the failed Eden Experiment and Lilith an aspect of the original Isis or some other archetypal Elder Goddess. Such information would be tightly controlled and few (if any) Demon Princes aware of their true heritage. This particular version of events ties in nicely with the Gnostic Heresy and Aeons and Archons !
It is the intention of this cyber campaign module/site to shed
light on the nature of the (theopolitical) relationship between
the Elder Gods and Heaven which, in this author's opinion, is
an area that needs radical revision. The climax being the inauguration
of an Illuminated New (Celestial) World Order. Thus forcing the
Militant Tendency and Uriel's old guard to rethink their tactics
and focus on the real Enemy. The Egyptian Pantheon has been chosen
for this thought experiment for a number of reasons:
The Secrets that Archangels were not meant to know.
- Michael was the first angel (Right Eye) created by God (Atum). "Michael is a Seraph (now!) and he tells it straight: Things aren't run in Heaven like they used to be." (You betcha Mike!)
- David = syncretic combination of Geb (Egyptian) and Gaia (Greek)
- Yves = Shai (and not Thoth at all you see he was telling the truth!)
- Janus = syncretic combination of Janus (Roman), Aeolus (Gr.), (Shu E.), et al (He gets around!)
- Gabriel = Fits the stories concerning the Left Eye of Atum (the original Uraeus) just a little to closely to be dismissed out of hand. Sekhmet was also the Solar Eye of Ra and you don't get much hotter than that! (Or could Agni be involved? But that's another Scenario supplement!)
- Ptah = Eli In this case Eli is a subset of the Forces of Ptah rather than the other way round. Has Eli has found out about his true nature? And exploring his Roots one of the reasons for his recent departure from Celestial Politics??
- Dominic is the only Archangel that knows of his latter day nature and hides this Discordant knowledge under heavy black robes...
- Blandine and Beleth being intimately acquainted with the Ethereal
Realm know that there is more to its Far Reaches than meets the
Celestial/Infernal Eye. However lacking any hard evidence these
remain suspicions.
It is almost certain that Jean, Jordi, Laurence, Marc and Novalis are newcomers and unaware of the false nature of their memories and the true Face of God. Naturally Litheroy knows the Truth of the matter.
Lucifer will be the only denizen of Hell to know the Truth. But as the Prince of Lies is anyone going to believe him?
The following is the suggested list of Archangels whose relationship with the Elder Gods of the Egyptian Pantheon may be more than it seems...
- Where are they now?
- Mayet Ma'at (See above) is now Maiel the Archangel of (Divine) Truth and a senior Servitor in her Halls of Truth whilst it was still being run directly by 'The Boss'. And Dominic was a 8 Force Angel running errands! He guesses her origins and she knows that he knows and no-one asks any embarrassing questions...
- Seshet Her Rites gain her Essence from households that have active wind chimes with the crescent Moon and Star. She is thus the Patron Ethereal Goddess of the New Age Gift Shop!
- Selkit
- Nephthys
- Isis
- Neith
Osiris as the God of the Resurrection had a very important job to do
about two millennia ago... After its completion he rediscovered
his roots but was the ambushed by the forces of darkness and destruction
and has been 'MIA' for most of that time. See Saminga and the History of Egypt - the real story. The bulk of his Forces are sundered and embodied on the Corporeal
in the form of Djed Amulets most of these are in the possession
of various members of the CIA.
