Thoughts on black lunar magic
The rules for playing Selenim were never published in English, although the author posted a preview way back in the 90s. It's not clear how different this would have been from the French version, but there are some facts we can discern. In the American adaptation, the Selenim had invented "sarcophagi" that served as precursors to the stasis and pharaonic tombs used by Nephilim. (This is in contrast to the French version, where the stasis was invented by the secret societies to imprison the Nephilim.) The Selenim were unstable due to the lack of an independent black lunar field to sustain them, so they used their tombs to insulate and replenish their ka by drawing on the ambient magic fields. They could apparently survive indefinitely this way, at least until they started drawing on the more plentiful solar-ka found in mortals. Anyway, the French version was written haphazardly like a lot of 90s games so the Selenim ended up being given their own sub-systems that didn'