Inherit the Earth
     


Game Secrets

This is not to be read before you read the Overview



Lady Grace   The statue of a woman in Sault St. Marie had several missing pieces. Each piece was a Fallen Angel who took human form. The Nosferatu Cae knew that when they fell, they would come out of this statue. The Nosferatu watched it and when the first Angel, Gabriel, Fell, they cared for him, address his wounds, and nursed him back to health. When the third angel (Michael) fell, a Sabbat gang found him before Cae's men. They healed the angel, while the Nosferatu waited until the third (and final) angel, Uriel, emerged. They nursed him, and sent him on his way.

The Nosferatu Cae learned about the statue's power when the charaters encounter him on a British naval vessel during WWII. When he found out then that the statue would start vomiting Angels in fifty years, he set about getting control over that part of the city. His Childer spirited the fallen angel away from Canada when Uriel fell. The characters looked for him, but found nothing at all.

Stolen Tablet   The Nosferatu Cae also knew that there were tablets in the world that could give him information about the end of the world. Based on what the characters told him, he knew that there would be on in Lupine hands. He created Elucid, a strong young reject that made for a great professional. Cae's old Nephandi friend, from who he learned many secrets, also told him of other members of the evil wizard cabal called Maeljin Incarna. When his Nephandi friend died (about fifty years ago) he enlisted the aid of another member of the Maeljin Incarna, a sadistic young girl with a passion for evil. Cae paid her to increase Elucid's abilities by giving her information she was desperately seeking: The location of all entrances to the Shadowlands that Cae knew about. Cae knew not why she wanted that information.

Elucid, with his extraordinary powers, went into the wilderness outside of Milwaukee and found the Tablet Cae was looking for. He easily killed the two werewolf guards, stole the Table, and brought it back to Cae for study. Cae new the world was ending, and this Tablet was the key to escaping.

The Thickening   There have been five times in the past when the number of dead entering the Shadowlands at the same time have been so great so as to cause a Maelstrom. During World War One, the bombing of Japan in World War Two, the Black Death in Europe, to name just three. When the influx of the Dead becomes too much, the Tempest (a great storm in the Afterlife that drags souls to Oblivion) surges past known borders and into the cities of the Dead, pulling those new hordes of dead into Oblivion. This surge is called a Maelstrom. Each Maelstrom increases the thickness of the Shroud, the border between the land of the living (Skinlands) and the land of the dead (Shadowlands). Also, after a Maelstrom, the Shroud thins back, but never as thin as it was before the Maelstrom. That is why it is harder to see and speak to the dead now that it was before the First Maelstrom.

Another affect of the Maelstrom is very important indeed. The violent winds and spiritual forces that destroy just about everything in the Shadowlands and that includes the gates of Hell. Well, not the actual Hell, but the first layer, called Malfeas. This realm contains a powerful being that seeks to destroy the world and recreate it in his image. The Nephandi cabal called the Maeljin Incarna seeks to let this being, also named Malfeas, escape and destroy the earth. The Gates only require one more powerful Maelstrom to finally break them. The Maeljin Incarna has just learned this after much research and is begining to figure out how to kill enough people to create a final Maelstrom. 1