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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 874383" data-attributes="member: 7396">Ok, I think I'm getting somewhere with a concept. Bear with me, this may seem a little odd at first.I originally wanted an upper-class, professional type of character to make a change from the more sort of generic fringe/subculture Tradition mage. And not one that's Order of Hermes, either, since they seem to be the only ones with bank accounts (at least in the supplements).I was also mulling over the whole "on the brink of Awakening" thing, and having characters that were more receptive to magic in their lives. So I thinking about someone who was raised in an occult tradition within his family- not an actual mage Tradition (some ancestors may have been), but a family that had been in a certain secret society for hundres of years, or traced their ancestry back to ancient druids and were still secretly following old pagan practices.So, combining these two, the character I have in mind is a younger member of a family of occultists and hedge mages. The character himself would something of a dilettante, living on old money and just sort of dabbling in academia, finances, whatever. The family could be associated with the Arcanum or something similar, or they could just be isolated eccentrics, everyone practising "magic" and studying esoteric lore in an almost Addams-family kind of way. I don't have any single real tradition in mind for the family to be practising, more of a Golden Dawn sort of hodgepodge.The thing is, the family would consider themselves "wizards" but of course would really just be hedge magicians, following the same formulas and rituals they have for hundreds of years (and not getting much result, either). The character's Awakening would come from realizing that he doesn't have follow all the family rites and moldy old books, but is more capable of winging things- that he can still do magic by just combining certain things together on an intuitive level, sort of re-creating the old rituals. Various members of the family, of course, may or may not approve of this.Still no real thoughts on tradition, since it will largely depend on what my paradigm and style end up being. Since I'm going to be sort of "recreating the old from the new", I would probably be suited toward the more open traditions instead of something like the Order or the Chorus.The problem I'm having right now is that all the Traditions end up being sort of one-dimensional; of neccesity, really, since changing reality is hard and it helps to have a solid framework. The trick is that what I've described above doesn't really fit into any of the Tradition paradigms, except as maybe a really liberal Hermetic. Orphan would work, but I've never really liked them as a concept. So I haven't really attached this idea to any of the traditions yet.Are we still going to be set in England? The character was going to be British irregardless, since it seems to fit the whole family of occultists concept.Does all this sound ok, or is it too out-there?</blockquote>

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