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Scion: Dragon and Scion: Masks of the Mythos for Scion 2E

Created by Onyx Path / Scion Second Edition Team

Two new pathways for Scion Second Edition! Scion: Dragon and Scion: Masks of the Mythos

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Jan '24 Update - Companion Preview
2 months ago – Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:32:19 AM

Hello Dragons,

Welcome to the first update of 2024! We've got one final Stretch Goal reward to deliver to you, and I'll continue to post updates every other month as we watch it move forward along the progress track.

Before we get to that part of the update, I do have a preview to share with you today!

[SCION: DRAGON] COMPANION PREVIEW

Time for an intriguing preview from our upcoming Scion: Dragon Companion! The Companion introduces the Flight of the Returning with the following introduction:

The Returning

The Returning all stood astride the earth (or curled around it, or slithered upon it, or swam in its seas) as members of other Flights. They gathered with others according to their morphology or homelands, had their own Heirs, their own lairs in the abyssal waters and deep caves beneath the earth, they swam in the clouds high in the sky…

… and they all died.

Not just died, no. The vast majority of the Returning — with a few extremely notable exceptions covered below — were abused, vilified, hunted, and killed. Some died more than once: Heroes have hunted Reincarnations of some of the Returning across the generations, and as soon as a new Isa Bere rises, another Demigod starts an eight-year battle.

Heroes with swords and fire, with arrows and javelins, hunted the Returning. Their divine parents demanded the subjugation of the draconic figures, either to test the mettle of their children, to protect their followers from the perceived (or real) depredation of the Dragon upon their lands, or sometimes in an attempt to rid themselves of a pest of a kid who might rise to take their place. Whatever the reason, these Dragons — moreso than every other Flight — have suffered.

Why have they returned now? Why have they risen from the earth again in these nights as opposed to any other?

Some of them have returned before, over and over, and some have only returned now. The Vishapakar — the priests of Vishap, who have sought her Reincarnation for centuries upon centuries — lay the credit for this at the feet of their draconic mother. But they would, wouldn’t they? They claim that Vishap’s long-awaited reincarnation has brought back the Memory of the other Returning, permitting their reincarnation in new Heirs, or for Chosen Heirs to find the pathway to ascend to full dragonhood. Her first death shattered the memory of dragonkind, they believe; therefore, her return has sparked not only the return of long-dead Dragons, but the birth of a plethora of new Dragons for the first time in ages. Nessie ascended less than fifty years ago, and since she — a daughter of Fáfnir and from the same Flight as their beloved Vishap — ascended, many others have followed in her footsteps.

Whatever the reason, the Returning are, well, returning.

And they’re angry.

Along with providing everything you need to play one of the Returning, the book also profiles several prominent Dragons from within this Flight including none other than everyone’s favourite wyrm:

Tiamat, the Glistening One

Aliases: Bis-Bis, Mammu-Tiamat, Thalátt?, Thalassa, Ummukhubar

The Draq raise Tiamat above all others: Mother of all Dragons, the Glistening One. They revere her and have loved her since she slithered free from the primeval salt-tears of a birthing world. She loved Abzu of the sweet waters and worshipped him and the waters in which he swam. From the amniotic salt of her ocean and the commingling of Abzu and Tiamat rose many Gods —  this, the Draq know. They know, too, that Tiamat died when the loss of her husband drove her past the edge of sanity, and no one could stand before her anguished destruction. When Abzu’s paranoia led to his downfall, her grief literally transformed her from loving mother into force of destruction. The new-made Dragon birthed eleven monsters, two of whom remain as Dragons in the Draq Flight (see Scion: Dragon, p XX). She died, martyred to her grief, her tears at her loss spilling to create the foundational rivers of civilization, her tail curling across the sky in the scatter of stars which became the Milky Way.

She returns as not a martyr, but a problem — at least, a problem for the Draq who believed her one of them even in her returning, and a problem for the Heirs who the other Draq have folded into their clutches. Tiamat’s return signals something momentous, but even the other Returning aren’t really sure what.

The reincarnation of Tiamat conceals her human origins, aided by her new beloved. Vishap protected the Heir who would become Tiamat, and her Heirs and cults have rather successfully occluded the birth name and pre-Inheritance timeline of the returned Glistening One. Why, precisely, Vishap felt it necessary to carefully shred all the evidence of Tiamat’s mortal life remains a mystery.

She welcomes any of her Heirs who come to her now, no matter their past loyalties, and has become rather profligate in choosing new children, as if making up for lost time. Her new Heirs carry both the vivid memories of the regal woman with her hair piled high and the majestic Dragon she became, her scales shimmering like salt waves crashing on a crystalline shore. Tiamat chooses both those who understand loss and those who fight to protect others. Her new children may have grown up in orphanages or been widowed, but none of them come to her without a defiant streak, which she nurtures as long as they don’t direct it at her.

Callings: Judge, Ruler, Primeval

Memory: Devotion to one’s loved ones and partners; defending those you love;a memory of betrayal by a loved one;an overpowering grief to the point of incoherence; the burning desire to rise again

Dragon Magic: Elemental Manipulation (Fire), Flight, Fear, Understanding

Expect to see a lot more in the book to come!

STRETCH GOAL REWARD STILL PENDING

REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS

ONYX PATH PROJECT TRACKING

You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <December 2023 Project Status Summary>

You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!

I will continue to post regular updates every other month until the final reward has gone out.

ONYX PATH DISCUSSION CHANNELS

If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:

TO CONTACT JAMES

If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods

  •  Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
  •  Via Kickstarter: Click Richard Thomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
  •  Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.

Launching Today!

Reprint Repro-a-GoGo

As Scion Second Edition and the Trinity Continuum grew and expanded over the years, many new players were able to join in and explore The World and new eras within the Continuum. Now it's time to get those early core books back into print!

At 2:00 PM Easter today, we'll be launching a quick campaign for backers to pre-order these second printings. Sign up to get notified at launch! 

Dec '23 Monthly Update
3 months ago – Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 07:47:19 AM

Hello Dragons,

Time for our final update of 2023! No big dragon announcements this month - our final reward is beginning art direction, so it'll still be some time before we finish up in 2024 - but I do have one last piece of Scion fun for you this year!

Just before we finish up in December, Onyx Path has put up the Advance PDF version of Scion: Once & Future for purchase on DriveThruRPG.com.

SCION: ONCE & FUTURE

The Pendragon’s Mantle lies incomplete, an unfinished story waiting for the right Scion to fill the role. Will you complete Arthur’s legend? Or are you doomed to fail, like so many others?

Once and Future supplements Origin through Demigodplay, discussing the power of Mantles and the threat of failure that leaves behind unfinished legends.

Once and Future contains:

  • Brand-new Welsh pantheon: the Plant Dôn
  • Storyguiding advice for running Arthurian-themed campaigns at all three levels of play
  • New rules for playing historical games
  • Three adventures at each level of play, meant to be enjoyed in a sequence or slotted independently into ongoing Scion Second Edition games

Scion Second Edition: Once and Future is available now as an Advance PDF at DriveThruRPG.com!

STRETCH GOAL REWARD STILL PENDING

REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS

ONYX PATH PROJECT TRACKING

You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <November 2023 Project Status Summary>

You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!

I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.

ONYX PATH DISCUSSION CHANNELS

If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:

TO CONTACT JAMES

If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods

  •  Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
  •  Via Kickstarter: Click Richard Thomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
  •  Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.

Until 2024...

Nov '23 Monthly Update
4 months ago – Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 10:37:12 AM

Hello Dragons,

As we near the end of 2023 we've got one final Stretch Goal in the early stages of Art Direction, so I don't think we'll be finishing up before the end of the year (things tend to slow down as we get into December), so our next bunch of updates will look pretty similar to this one. I'll keep tracking progress, though, and we can watch this last reward move into layout and proofing in 2024.

STRETCH GOAL REWARD STILL PENDING

REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS

ONYX PATH PROJECT TRACKING

You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <October 2023 Project Status Summary>

You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!

I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.

ONYX PATH DISCUSSION CHANNELS

If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:

TO CONTACT JAMES

If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods

  • Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
  • Via Kickstarter: Click Richard Thomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
  • Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.

CURRENTLY CROWDFUNDING

Join in on the latest Exalted expansion sourcebook

Never before has Creation known the perils of the Abyssal Exalted. They have emerged from the gloom of the Underworld as champions of death, sworn to the service of the Deathlords and the Neverborn. Each was offered the gift of the Bleak Exaltation at the moment of their own demise, and each chose to willingly become an agent of the apocalypse. Their motivations are as manifold as any others — they may seek destruction or domination, malice or justice, ancient secrets hidden and forbidden or sheer iron-willed survival.

In service to their lieges, these deathknights will grind the Underworld to heel and scour life from the face of Creation. Or…they might break from those oaths and set themselves up as death’s own Lawgivers, ruling empires of the dead as sages, arbiters, and reapers. All that can be known for sure is that with the Abyssal Exalted loosed upon the world, it will never be the same again.

Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave is now crowdfunding! Join us <here>

Oct '23 Monthly Update
5 months ago – Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 11:27:42 AM

Hello Dragons,

With only one Stretch Goal reward to go, I'm very eager for this project to finish up. We're not there yet - there's still a bunch of work for Onyx Path to do to get this to us, so I think we'll be spending a few months touching base and tracking incremental progress.

Anyway, that's just my long way of saying I don't have any news, there are no big changes, and I'll get right to our monthly review.

STRETCH GOAL REWARD STILL PENDING

We'll know we're getting close when we start to see artwork sneak peeks. As soon as something becomes available, I'll share it!

REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS

ONYX PATH PROJECT TRACKING

You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <September 2023 Project Status Summary>

You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!

I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final Stretch Goal reward has gone out.

ONYX PATH DISCUSSION CHANNELS

If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:

TO CONTACT JAMES

If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods

  • Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
  • Via Kickstarter: Click Richard Thomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
  • Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.

CURRENTLY CROWDFUNDING

The World Below is a game of adversity, heroism, terror, and awe. Your characters will overcome or be defeated by terrible beasts, environmental calamities, and Kaos storms ravaging their surroundings and the souls around them. They will chart their journeys, chronicle their tales, and pass their stories down to their descendants, who will in turn become your characters when your old ones perish or retire.

The World Below provides. But you must dig. You must explore. You must map. You must build. You must defend.

The World Below provides, but only to the worthy. 
The unworthy fall, consumed by bugs, lava, acidic fog, the vagaries of Kaos, and the World Below’s convulsing tunnels.

The World Below is your home, your prison, and your alien world containing terrible threats and wondrous discoveries.

The World Below is a complete tabletop roleplaying game, and includes:

  • Numerous playable options, some from the traditional fantasy mold, others unique to the World Below.
  • The complete Storypath Ultra System, allowing you to play this game straight from the book.
  • A myriad of settings, monsters, powers, and abilities for use in your stories, which you can play as minimalist dungeon crawls or World Below-spanning expeditions.

Come Join Us in The World Below!

Sept '23 Monthly Update
6 months ago – Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 10:24:27 AM

Hello Mythos Dragons,

As we close in towards October, it's time for our regular monthly update. We've got one final Stretch Goal reward to go. Before I get into our regular round up, I've got a quick reminder about Onyx Path's latest Scion project.

FINAL 48ish HOURS FOR TITANS RISING

Titans Rising builds on the foundations of Scion: Titanomachy, explaining the grand conflict between the Gods and Titans. It delves into the very heart of Titanhood, revealing that some Titans truly are just misunderstood and that conflict based on whom someone’s parents are is problematic at best. The book presents Titanic Scions — not just as playable characters, but as heroes, despite their bitter conflicts with some of Scion's more established names, like Eric Donner, Yukiko Kuromizu, and Little Mao. Can your game’s Scions repair the rift between Gods and Titans? How many Titans are better than their reputation and which Gods are worse than theirs? Whom can your Scions trust and whom must be destroyed once and for all?

Beyond moral quandaries, Titans Rising also opens wide the doors of player options for Titanic characters, including new ways to engage in high level gameplay as leaders of a besieging army who seek to reclaim their homeland from the Gods. And for games fighting on the Gods’ side of the Titanomachy, there are numerous plot seeds, adversaries, and Birthrights to be used against the Titans and their Scions.

FINAL 48 HOURS ON KICKSTARTER! IT ENDS ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th AT 2:00 PM

The project has funded and already added some Stretch Goals including two new supplements. If you join in now, you're able to read the entire current draft of the manuscript before any pledges are processed on Thursday!

STRETCH GOAL REWARD STILL PENDING

One more reward to go. I'll continue monthly updates until it is in your digital hands.

REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS

ONYX PATH PROJECT TRACKING

You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <August 2023 Project Status Summary>

You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!

I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final Stretch Goal reward has gone out.

ONYX PATH DISCUSSION CHANNELS

If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:

TO CONTACT JAMES

If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods

  •  Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
  •  Via Kickstarter: Click Richard Thomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
  •  Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.