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Background
"The Order" is a magical
secret society that originated in Persia about 3,000 years ago.
Several of its members were the famed "magi" who visited the
Christ child and may have been responsible for his later training.
Until recently the organization was content to train sorcerers in the
ancient arts.
In the 1880s one of the Great Old
Masters (as long-time members of "The Order" are called)
recruited a particularly talented Englishman he discovered on a trip to
the United Kingdom. The young man quickly learned the various arts
taught by the organization, and, hungry for more, made a pilgrimage to
Mars to train under the most powerful sorcerers there.
Somewhere along his journey he acquired
an ancient Vulcanian artifact -- a kind of psionic enhancement device in
the form of a diadem. This device doubled his effective attribute,
making him the most powerful sorcerer-psionic in the past several
centuries.
Upon returning to "The Order"
the Englishman seized control of that organization and turned it toward
his goal of becoming the most powerful man in the Solar System. |
