So You’re Going To Be A Tranquil

Welcome. You are here because you are either too weak willed to resist a bit of demonic possession,  unpopular amongst the other mages or you are just too much of a loser to take part in ‘The Harrowing’ by the the Circle of Magi. So instead, you are going to be forced to go through the Rite of Tranquillity.  It’s like a permanent holiday were you will feel forever relaxed. The only downside is it will – unfortunately – cut off your connection to the Fade… but who likes dreaming in metaphysical realms anyway?  It’s definitely a small price to pay for a good night’s sleep. No more restless nights worrying about that phone bill or that argument you had with your mother ever again! The Maker is doing you a favour!

As a minimal side effect, your emotional centre will be utterly and brutally destroyed… BOOM,  kaputski, defunct, surplus to requirements. This is because whilst other mages may be able to protect themselves from an evil possession, your fear will cause you to cower under a table, possibly holding a soft toy for comfort. That is unacceptable, so this process will remove your fear (among other emotions) to ensure that demons cannot take over your frankly weedy body and possess your feeble mind. And stop you huddling under tables, when you can use yourselves as handy shields for more useful mages.

The Tranquil do not believe in passion, so kiss your love life goodbye. Then again, kiss heart ache goodbye – so becoming tranquil will become handy if you’ve just gone through a messy break up or disappointing sexual encounter. You will no longer annoy the other mages because you will keep yourself to yourself, and, if asked directly, you will readily agree that having the opportunity to live out a peaceful, tranquil, (hence the name) and a far more useful existence  is far more preferable when you compare it to what the alternatives would be. In the emotional world, when people spit in your faces, you might get angry.  In the tranquil world, no anger… and free spit!

Instead of colourful, sparkly and really rather cool magic spells, you Tranquils will manage the archives, run the tower, purchase the supplies and maintain the accounts for the Circle of magi. Thrilling stuff quite frankly – and we can guarantee that as a tranquil you will be just as thrilled by cleaning out the gunk at the bottom of cauldrons.  We would say that you will feel satisfaction in everything – but that would be untrue as you won’t feel anything at all.

When the Circle of Magi find a mage too crap to survive the threat of demonic possession, making them Tranquil is actually considered an act of kindness. If you are gonna get  your ass kicked anyway then it makes perfect sense to not get upset about it.

“My Harrowing came at last. ‘You must now face a scary demon’, they said, ‘either that or submit your pitiful soul to the Rite of Tranquility bitch!’ Yes they will sever my connection to the Fade, and then I would never dream again, but on the plus side, no demon could ever touch me again… Oh but I would also be unable to do any magic, and I would never feel an emotion ever again, oh decisions, decisions. But then I figured… damn, who am I kidding, I’m shit, a demon will be using my intestines to hang the washing out to dry on, so as you can tell, my choice was a very easy one.“– Bobert the Nard, Tranquil of the Circle of Magi

… you won’t feel like you made a mistake in the morning – you won’t feel anything.