My Nephilim Occult RPing Blog

In the third edition Gamemaster's Screen , the Quest for the Cycle of Destiny is introduced. (The fanzine  Vision-Ka  #3  specifies on p41 that this Quest is one and the same as the Arcane Quest of The Magician.) The goal of this quest is to acquire and study the Minor Tablets, crafted by Akhenaton as supplements to the 22 Major Arcana Trumps. The purpose of these Minor Tablets is to help mortals reach Agartha. There are four Minor Arcana  in total: The Wand (Fire), The Cup (Water), The Sword (Air) and The Coin (Earth). Keen-eyed readers may notice that the symbolism of the suits correspond loosely to the traditional magical tools (see Liber Ka p52). By pursuing this quest, the Nephilim is better able to understand their Simulacrum's Solar-Ka: they can boost their chances of Critical Success based on their Solar-Ka, retain player control during Shouit seizures rather than handing control to the GM, and develop Solar Resistance through initiation into a Minor Arcanum...

Source The following extract was translated from the fourth edition’s  Le Codex de la Lune p30-1. The 666 is a secret organization organized by a Nephilim called the Devourer who resembles the god Seth or Anubis. Its existence was only hypothetical until the Major Conclave of the Apocalypse where the identity of the members of 666 was revealed. Some think that it has existed for more than three millennia. The Nephilim have long believed that the 666 was only a sect of Khaiban or Selenim dissidents, or even a new Minor Arcanum. Everyone now knows that the 666 is an initiative of five Nephilim whose Pentacle has a Black Moon Core instead of the Moon-Ka. Their members are perceived as aberrations by the Nephilim. However, they may sort their modified Pentacle and do not seek pure and simple destruction but renewal by a radical magical tabula rasa . The organization of the 666 is very opaque: around the council of the five gravitates a nebula of occult actors who act on its behalf. Th...

In this post I introduce and tackle the topic of... Bohemians! In Chaosium's books In the  Nephilim  rulebook p57, it's stated that: When the Theban armies and assassins overwhelmed their homes, the Nephilim Arcana tribes avoided destruction by scattering throughout the world. So thorough was their diffusion that many even lost contact with each other. Yet from many secret locations they initiated others into certain Nephilim secrets and bade them to continue the search to locate the other lost Arcana. This was the birth of the great bohemian people called “Egyptians” or “gypsies” in Victorian England. Those nomads created their own culture based upon secret Nephilim rites, Egyptian customs, and elements borrowed from the many countries which they crossed over the centuries. There are other passages in the books linking Romani groups to the occult world and to the Tarot. Liam Routt  suggested some ideas  for Romeny Nephilim based on this passage, but never produced a...

In the books, sometimes the “black star” and “black sun” are mentioned. These are usually epithets for Saturn or aliases for the Order of the Black Star. In Major Arcana , “The Black Star” is noted as a possible Shadow Arcanum by Wheel of Fortune and and “The Black Sun” is mentioned by The Chariot as the mysterious power source behind the Saurian empire. (I get the feeling different writers came up with different ideas independently of each other that contradict when written side by side.) Source One day the following idea was shared with me on Discord, having been generated by ChatGPT. I found it so interesting that I had to share it here. In the context of the Nephilim RPG, the Black Star is a mysterious and powerful cosmic entity. It is said to be a dark star that orbits our solar system and exerts a profound influence on the forces of magic and the occult. The Black Star is also associated with the planet Saturn, which is considered to be its physical manifestation in our solar sys...

Sorry for the change in trajectory. I've got a bunch of posts in progress dealing with basic stuff, but I haven't been able to work on them recently. So here's a fluff piece to distract you. On page 84 of Major Arcana , the author speculates on other "Shadow Arcana" beyond the traditional 22 in the Rider–Waite tarot deck. These include "the Ship, Prudence, Misery, the Drowned Sailor, or the Merchant." Most of the cards named come from unorthodox tarot decks–the Ship from the Lenormand tarot deck , Prudence from the Thoth tarot deck , Misery and the Merchant from the Mantegna tarot deck –except the Drowned Sailor which comes from T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." The passage speculates on the origins of the these Shadows: are these paths founded by Agarthans that were not revealed to Akhenaten? Tools of the Saurians, the Dragon, or the Black Star? Creations of the other immortal traditions indigenous to China, Africa, the Americas, et al? Crea...