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| - The Nephandi are a sect of fallen mages. Like the rest of the sects, they represent one of the four Avatar Essence; in this case, the Primordial Essence. These mages represent the desire to obliterate the entire Tellurian.
- {{articleissues |unreferenced=December 2007 |in-universe=June 2008 The Nephandi are a fictional group of mages in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension dedicated broadly to spreading corruption, decay, and discord. When taking the roots of modern-day Nephandi into account, they are collectively one of the oldest factions of Mages still active today.
- The most dangerous Reality Deviant known to the Technocracy the Nephandi search nothing less than to ensure the destruction of the world. Though they are skilled tempters, capable on insinuating themselves through honeyed word and rich promise, they will not stop for anything close to feeding the world to Oblivion. Do not attempt to talk with them, not even to retrieve tactical data. Just destroy them with any means necessary. Nephandi encountered:
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| - {{articleissues |unreferenced=December 2007 |in-universe=June 2008 The Nephandi are a fictional group of mages in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension dedicated broadly to spreading corruption, decay, and discord. When taking the roots of modern-day Nephandi into account, they are collectively one of the oldest factions of Mages still active today. A Nephandus (singular) is an Awakened agent of the cosmological force of Entropy, and represents the antithesis to anything other mages would try to achieve. Despite this unifying aspect of their calling, Nephandi can be motivated by a wide variety of interests. Some seek to destroy all of reality in an effort to assert their power over the ultimate constraint every mage faces. Others seek power that they consider impossible to reach otherwise, and do so by the systematic destruction of everything in their path. Yet others corrupt and destroy out of religious zeal. Many possess all three motivations to varying degrees. The crucial factor that makes them all Nephandi is, that they voluntarily chose their path and turned their backs on the ideals of Ascension willingly. Nephandi exist in several locations on Earth and throughout the World of Darkness cosmology, but those who are most powerful dwell in the Umbra (mostly in the Deep Umbra). This is because there they seek to establish contact with entities that exist beyond known reality, but also, because many Nephandi have been purged from Earth, and routed to realms beyond the Horizon by a concerted effort of the Traditions and Technocracy during and after WWII. Since then, though, many lower-ranking Nephandi have managed to insinuate themselves into Earth's physical realm again, and new recruits are always coming. Nephandi active on Earth are working as subtle masterminds directing cultist pawns from a distance or covertly whittle away at established structures as infiltrators and malicious schemers. The pawns of Nephandi mostly do not know the true nature of their masters' missions, but are the commonly encountered manifestations of Nephandi activity.
- The Nephandi are a sect of fallen mages. Like the rest of the sects, they represent one of the four Avatar Essence; in this case, the Primordial Essence. These mages represent the desire to obliterate the entire Tellurian.
- The most dangerous Reality Deviant known to the Technocracy the Nephandi search nothing less than to ensure the destruction of the world. Though they are skilled tempters, capable on insinuating themselves through honeyed word and rich promise, they will not stop for anything close to feeding the world to Oblivion. Do not attempt to talk with them, not even to retrieve tactical data. Just destroy them with any means necessary. Nephandi encountered:
* Subject 362 (formerly known as Merces)
* Made harmless by Levi and extensively questioned by agent Jane.
* Bishop
* Questioned by agent Jane and agent Taylor. Send to Autochtonia by agent Derde. Report of sighting of echo of Bishop in entropic space by another echo.
* Everett-Jane
* Everett-Cormac
* Everett-Taylor
* Everett-Franklin
* All Everett-x have been encountered in Defenders of the Universe; named after impersonated individual.
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