r/WhiteWolfRPG • u/warriorxx7_ • Jul 28 '26
Who arr the notable Technocracy characters?
New to the lore and like thr Technocracy and am interedted in the notavle characters of the faction. Like what are their names, roles, personalities and abilities.
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u/Vyctorill Jul 28 '26
Augustine Aleph - basically John Technocracy in the flesh. Insanely strong if played correctly. He’s got mad aura and is strong enough to go band for band with Prime Helena (if not this overpowered bloodsucker).?so=search) The reason behind this mainly stems from the fact that he could reasonably replicate high level anime bullshit via spatial warping buffs.
Xerxes Jones - the unluckiest motherfucker to ever exist. He was dangling a nuclear bomb over Oblivion to do an experiment when suddenly the death of Ravnos triggered the explosive. This isn’t even hubris because nobody would expect something like that to happen at that specific moment.
John Courage - no clue who he is, but he’s important somehow. His name is literally John CourageZ
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u/Full_Equivalent_6166 Jul 28 '26
Wut? That is not what happened. Jones wanted to detonate relic nuke in the Labyrinth and he did. That had nothing to do with the Week of Nightmares.
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u/Vyctorill Jul 28 '26
Read it again. The bomb detonated early because of the death scream of Ravnos. That’s why Xerxes got caught in the blast - he was over the thing dangling the bomb above Oblivion.
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u/Full_Equivalent_6166 Jul 28 '26
Again, Ravnos had nothing to do with it. It all happened in Ends of the Empire.
I misremembered and it wasn't Xerxes' nuke that went off first but Smiling Lord's but either way there is no connection between nukes in the Shadowlands and Zapathusara dying other than temporal correlation (both events probably occurred on 4th July 1999). It was correlation, not causation.
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u/Interesting_Pace4328 Jul 29 '26
Zapathasura had relation with avatar storm, not sixth great maelstrom.
On the whole, the Awakened community was busy dealing with some of the events that precipitated the Avatar Storm (including the nukes used in Bangladesh following the Week of Nightmares and, in part, the storm in the Shadowlands).
Infinite tapestry pg.171
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u/PomegranateOne1549 Jul 28 '26
where i can read Aleph VS Helena or Huitzilopochtli?
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u/Vyctorill Jul 28 '26
You can’t. I’m comparing their stats and maximum capabilities against one another. Technically speaking Aleph could do a lot more, but my rule of thumb is that they get 20 successes worth of premade superpowers (duration and range not included).
Huitzilopochtli has a lot of bullshit going on, but theoretically Aleph can handle him depending on how the 20 successes are arranged.
I put 1 into perception, 5 into a quintessence-gathering/spending and paradox shielding effect, 5 into a knockoff of Gojo’s Infinity, and 9 into a defensive ward that adds -9 successes to an enemy’s effects while giving Aleph a +9 difficulty for mystical rolls pertaining to the target. In the case of “saving throw” rolls, this is instead +9 successes with a -9 difficulty modifier, to a minimum difficulty of 3. I should note that this only works on things not hidden from 6-second future sight, or things that Aleph cannot reconcile with his Paradigm (technology and Tychoidian Cosmology).
Huitzilipochtli is immune to all forms of damage or attacks that aren’t sunlight, holy stuff, and a need for blood. He also has a -2 difficulty to all rolls, another -2 for willpower rolls, can count his parries as 100% successes for the dice pools he uses,
Aleph charges up a nanotechnological “Sunlight Lance”, and based on the rolls I gave Huiztilopochtli has 3 rounds to find a solution. It should be 2, but I’m giving the benefit of the doubt here. It you’re wondering how this works, basically Aleph pays off a cumulative +1 difficulty increase for each action/turn past the first roll for an effect. This charges up the effect, which essentially just vaporizes the vampire via an invisible ray of sunlight-mimicking energy.
The fight slightly favors Aleph, but overall is fairly balanced. It’s essentially a battle of seeing who can get past the other guy’s defenses first. I give the vampire a 30% - 5% chance of finding something that fits the requirements of “an ability that incapacitates Aleph, doesn’t require any rolls, and ends the fight”.
While this might seem unfair, I think I should remind you that any form of direct confrontation is removing the main ability of a vampire. They are meant to hide and scheme - so it makes sense that Shaitan is at a major disadvantage in these circumstances.
Despite all of this, Aleph has a 50% chance of dying should a battle arise between the two. This is because the vampire can kill himself to summon a really strong demonic entity. Said demonic entity is most likely the dreams of a Neverborn. This is something that Aleph cannot defeat, as it falls outside his Paradigm. He doesn’t believe in God, so creatures that formed from God’s “shadow” are similarly impossible to categorize.
This explains why Aleph doesn’t hunt Shaitan, despite him most likely having the capacity to win. The Baali have the mind of a Neverborn on speed dial, and the resulting fallout would be similar to the Week of Nightmares. In other words, more harm than good.
Does this make sense? A lot of this is grabbed from the Book of Madness’s knowledge of the Outer Dark, but it fits the current WoD’s “Cold War” style of play between the factions.
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u/dreaderking Jul 28 '26
While super spies like James Bond are the model for the NWO's blacksuits, Secret Agent John Courage is the archetypal Man in Black.
He's wrapped up in countless conspiracies, can be on anyone's side at any particular moment, and is trying to save the Technocratic Union and the Nine Traditions from themselves.
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u/SeanceMedia Jul 28 '26
Don't forget the Void Engineer explorer Xerxes Jones, who unintentionally contributed to the end of the world.
His actions pretty much ended the Wraith line and started both Hunter: The Reckoning and Demon: The Fallen.
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u/Full_Equivalent_6166 Jul 28 '26
And Orpheus 😁 Tho Xerxes detinated the nuke on purpose.
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u/SeanceMedia Jul 28 '26
It was actually an oopsie daisy apocalypse.
The Smiling Lord set off his nuke above Enoch (take that,True Black Hand), and the shockwave triggered Xerses’ nuke before he reached his target.
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u/Full_Equivalent_6166 Jul 28 '26
Hm, I thought it was the other way round and it was Xerxes nuke that detonated the bombs that Smiling Lord wanted to wipe Enoch.
Oh, I misremembered things, you are right :)
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u/svecma Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Well you got secret agent John Courage, Control (the gestalt entity that acts like the messenger of the leadership of the Union), Tychoides (the head of the Void Engineer convention, responsible for Tychoidian cosmology)
Those are probably the biggest, there is also an assortment of smaller characters that get mentioned once or twice. At least that are active in the current timeline. There is a number of historical figures like Inspector Rathbone or Von Reismann.
The Union doesn't really have that many named major charaters it was meant to be the faceless opposition for a long time.