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start_section "A Dark Age In The Computing Era" start_section "A Dark Age In The Computing Era"
pdf.text "The 2040's and 2050's are now a blur. Nobody knows what really happened. Every week, the news, the university professors, the government, insists something different happened in those two decades. Yet everybody just plays along. It's hard to tell for the Awakened if these people are fully brainwashed or if they are merely pretending so as to avoid getting into some sort of trouble. Possession of books is forbidden, since they are less mutable than websites.\nOne thing is understood, however, is that Pentacle society more or less collapsed in this period. Some people think that the civil war and its consequences were responsible. However, the lack of any known Pentacle Mages born in the 2020's or earlier is an indication that the ones existing in the 2030's through the 2050's either jumped ships to the Seers or were disappeared. Blaming the Seers of the Throne directly for this phenomena is common, but unconfirmed. It's also speculated that Exarchs, Oracles, and other Archmages essentially destroyed the world during this period, and the one that people live in for 2069 is a cheap facsimile of what once was, hence the gap and the nonsensical \"history\" everybody gets fed.\nIt took until the late 2060's for Awakened society to even partially recover. That recovery is ongoing. The old Pentacle Orders have re-emerged, in part due to forbidden records of their existence and histories being uncovered. However, it also seems as though these Orders exist naturally. Maybe they were re-seeded by the Oracles. Maybe it's just the way of the world. People were on the brink of a global Awakening in 2020, but as with all things, the more things change, they more they stay the same. Awakened society in 2069 is easily the most underground of the noteworthy supernatural entities. Demons and Beasts appear to be largely defeated, while Vampires and Werewolves appear to be given a deliberate <i>carte blanche</i>. Whenever an Awakened individual gets too arrogant and betrays what they're <i>actually</i> about, they seem to disappear. It's uncanny the efficiency with which this happens.\nWhat is known, however, is that no Awakened soul today appears to be born before 2030. The young scholars that have emerged seem to have formed a consensus that they were all disappeared much in the way their new friends will be if they get too Hubristic, but nobody seems to have concrete proof of this. It's one of those things that \"everybody knows\" in the Awakened community, yet nobody can prove. This may be because it's total hogwash, but it seems plausible enough that nobody questions it.", :inline_format => true, :indent_paragraphs => INDENT_SIZE pdf.text "The 2040's and 2050's are now a blur. Nobody knows what really happened. Every week, the news, the university professors, the government, insists something different happened in those two decades. Yet everybody just plays along. It's hard to tell for the Awakened if these people are fully brainwashed or if they are merely pretending so as to avoid getting into some sort of trouble. Possession of books is forbidden, since they are less mutable than websites.\nOne thing is understood, however, is that Pentacle society more or less collapsed in this period. Some people think that the civil war and its consequences were responsible. However, the lack of any known Pentacle Mages born in the 2020's or earlier is an indication that the ones existing in the 2030's through the 2050's either jumped ships to the Seers or were disappeared. Blaming the Seers of the Throne directly for this phenomena is common, but unconfirmed. It's also speculated that Exarchs, Oracles, and other Archmages essentially destroyed the world during this period, and the one that people live in for 2069 is a cheap facsimile of what once was, hence the gap and the nonsensical \"history\" everybody gets fed.\nIt took until the late 2060's for Awakened society to even partially recover. That recovery is ongoing. The old Pentacle Orders have re-emerged, in part due to forbidden records of their existence and histories being uncovered. However, it also seems as though these Orders exist naturally. Maybe they were re-seeded by the Oracles. Maybe it's just the way of the world. People were on the brink of a global Awakening in 2020, but as with all things, the more things change, they more they stay the same. Awakened society in 2069 is easily the most underground of the noteworthy supernatural entities. Demons and Beasts appear to be largely defeated, while Vampires and Werewolves appear to be given a deliberate <i>carte blanche</i>. When an Awakened individual gets too arrogant and betrays what they're <i>actually</i> about, they have a habit of disappearing; not every time, but often enough for \"it's a coincidence\" to be a big reach. It's uncanny the efficiency with which this happens.\nWhat is known, however, is that no Awakened soul today appears to be born before 2030. The young scholars that have emerged seem to have formed a consensus that they were all disappeared much in the way their new friends will be if they get too Hubristic, but nobody seems to have concrete proof of this. It's one of those things that \"everybody knows\" in the Awakened community, yet nobody can prove. This may be because it's total hogwash, but it seems plausible enough that nobody questions it.", :inline_format => true, :indent_paragraphs => INDENT_SIZE
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start_chapter "Orders" start_chapter "Orders"