aragon Society

aragon Society

their Suchid forms. Among them there have been many heroes, and they are the greatest warriors among the Mokol6.

The Zhong Lung, the Stream of the Philosophers, are the scholars and teachers of the Dragon Breed, the stream least harmed by the ravages of the Garou. They are the Mokol6 of the Middle Kingdom, including China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam and surrounding areas. They have great learning and share it with the other shapeshifters of the East, the hengeyokai. In their Homid forms, they are Asians of various kinds, and in their Suchid forms, they are Chinese alligators, saltwater crocodiles and monitor lizards. Like their kin the Makara, they count their auspices by the seasons of the year, not by the times of day.

But every stream has a spring, and all four streams of the Mokok remember their source in the Dinosaur Kings.

According to the most ancient of Mokol6 lore, these reptilian toolmakers walked Gaia’s Face two hundred million years ago, and were Her original guardians. Their living cities and tools surpassed any work of human hands, and their Memory served them in place of written record or schooling. Among them the Mokok of that age were scholars, teachers, soldiers, workers, hunters and priests of Sun.

Their reign endured for over one hundred and fifty million years, until a mysterious catastrophe called the Great Dying or the Wonderwork of the Wyrm laid them low. No Mokol6 who saw this disaster lived to speak of it, but in time, surviving Kin produced more shapeshifters. The next sixty Sunrise: Dragons in our Midst million years were an Age of Sleep, from which the Mokol6 awakened when human beings evolved. In the Wars of Rage the Garou savaged the Mokoli, and the memory of the slaughter remains fresh today. The Mokol6 are the Memory of Gaia, and each one carries within him a myriad of ancestral names and faces. This tumult of inner voices makes it a wonder that the Mokoli ever get anything done at all, but in fact they have a complex social order, one traditional since the time of the Kings. aragon Society The past ain’t dead. It ain’t even past.

William Faulkner Mokol6 are anything but tribal. Their concerns are at once more global and more local. Their society, embracing both Changers and Kin, is one of strict roles and close community.

Mokoli live among humans when they must, but prefer the company of Kin and other weresaurians. They realize this by grouping into wallows - homes for the human and reptile shapes that they take. A wallow can be a traditional village, an apartment building (hopefully with a pool!), a remote jungle mudhole, or a high-tech alligator refuge with tourist shows. Visitors can be admitted (or eaten), but the wallow belongs to the clutch. Clutches can be rivals to one another, competing for lands, mates and treasures through courtship, games, ridicule and even dueling. But as the Mokol6 dwindle in number, their main concern is the struggle for survival against the encroaching forces of the human despoilers. The forces of a market economy are cutting forests, damming streams, and scattering Kin to the winds. Like their enemies, the Garou, the Mokol6 see and fear the death of Mother Gaia. This has moved MokolC all over the earth from thought to action.

A Mokol6’s role in his society is determined by his sun sign. The Rising Suns are hunters, explorers and soldiers.

The Noonday Suns are judges, lawmakers and executioners.

The Setting Suns protect and defend, while the Midnight Suns are clowns, poets and doers of the impossible. The Shrouded Suns perform the mysteries, while Mokol6 born beneath a haloed or Decorated Sun organize. Finally, the rare MokolC born under an eclipse are rulers and priests.

Mokol6 are born either human or reptile, and live as such, having no special powers, until adolescence. At maturity, the ancestral memories of the MokolC emerge, and the young Mokole falls into a trawe. At that time, a new sh&+ is born: the battle-form, the di Kings. When the trance ends, a experience binds all Mokol6 tog memories it holds a “Before, I was like aman. I’mnothingnow, all brokenup.

So 1’11 remain in the water, and everyone will be afraid of me.”

He sang himself into a crocodile.

-“Becoming a Crocodile”, Koori folktale, Daly River, Australia This book is for anyone who loves dinosaurs, tropical rain forests, history and time. Its themes are evolution, memory, and the return of the lost. It contains information on how to flesh out MokolC characters for your World of Darkness chronicle, as well as all-new information about roleplaying in the reign of the Kings. You’ll need to have Werewolf: The Apocalypse Second Edition, obviously, but other World of Darkness books might help as well.

The book is laid out as follows: Sunrise: Dragons in our Midst - a summary of this book, including a lexicon.

Morning: Was - A short summary of the past of the Mokok, as Jeffo and Morwangu remember it.

Noonday: Us -The four streams, as well as notes on Mokok society.

Mokole‘ Afternoon: Dragon Making - Rules for character creation, including Archid-form characteristics and new Merits and Flaws.

Evening: Dragon’s Eye - Gifts and rites for the Mokol6, including many new ones.

Sunset: Dragon Lore - Ideas useful for MokolCspecific chronicles, such as clutch design, Mnesis questing and the like.

Night: Roleplaying - An appendix ofuseful tidbits, including templates, famous MokolC, details on the Mokole’s reptile Kin, dragon-specific antagonists and roleplaying notes for chronicles set in the Was. wokole’ Lexicon Age of Sleep: The time between the Wonderwork and the beginning of mankind.

Ambalasokei: The neotropical biome; South America.

Archid: Thkintermediary (“Crinos”) form of the vama of Mokole since the Age Clutch: A group, especially Damned: Vampires.

Designer: The shaper of life, called the Weaver by Garou.

Devisor: The creative power, later called “Wyld” by the Garou.

Dinosaur Kings: The Archiosauria, including dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and crocodilians. Rulers of the earth for over 150 million years.

Dissolver: The Unmaker, called Cahlash by Bastet and Wyrm by Garou. Time after time, the Dissolver has cleared the Mother’s face of life so that the Devisor could make anew.

Drachid: The “lost” form of the MokolC, the shape of the Kings. No Mokol6 hatched since the Wonderwork has been able to assume this reptilian toolmaker form.

Dragon Kings: Legendary progenitors, found in the Umbra.

Dream Hunter: A monster inhabiting the depths of Mnesis, a dream of terror come alive.

Egg-smasher: Adeadly insult, or descriptionofthe Garou.

Entoban: The ark-continent, birthplace of humanity; Africa.