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Order of Hermes (Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary)

The Order of Hermes is the Traditions' classical academy: grades, houses, oaths, and centuries of accumulated formulae. Their claim is that magic obeys laws, that those laws can be written down, and that disciplined will applied through the correct formula gives a reliable result. Forces is their specialty Sphere, and their reputation for firepower follows straight from it. In play a Hermetic is the cabal's expert and often its arrogance. Preparation is your advantage: you are the mage who arrives with the effect already researched. Backgrounds matter more here than for most Traditions, so spend part of your 7 starting dots on Library, Mentor, or Node. The friction is social by design, since a Tradition organized around rank and precedent will argue with Virtual Adepts and Sons of Ether about almost everything.