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* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Broken Diamond" can refer to how DC was carved out cartographically as an uneven, somewhat diamond-like shape. It can also refer to the broken state of the Diamond Orders due to their internal politicking.

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[[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=279847 The Broken Diamond]]

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[[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=279847 The Broken Diamond]]
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FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond, along with FanFic/TheSoulCage, is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness or TabletopGames in general.

[[Characters/TheBrokenDiamond The character sheet may be found here.]]

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FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond, ''The Broken Diamond'', along with FanFic/TheSoulCage, ''FanFic/TheSoulCage'', is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'', the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' or TabletopGames in general.

The story can be read [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=279847 here]]. [[Characters/TheBrokenDiamond The character sheet may be found here.]]



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* BrownNote
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* ClingyMacGuffin: [[spoiler: the Regalia]]
* ContainmentField
* CosmicRetcon
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* FightingAShadow: Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:the Exarch Shiva deploys an Ochema, a fraction of his soul projected into the Fallen World.]]
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* FightingAShadow: Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:the Exarch Shiva deploys an Ochema, a fraction of his soul projected into the Fallen World.]]
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* IKnowYourTrueName
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* MindControlDevice: The Crown, along with the regular type of Profane Urim.
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* FightingAShadow: Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:the Exarch Shiva deploys an Ochema, a fraction of his soul projected into the Fallen World.]]



* ProjectedAvatar: Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:the Exarch Shiva deploys an Ochema, a fraction of his soul projected into the Fallen World.]]
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* RevengeMyopia: The Seers don't care that Seraph started the whole mess and that [[spoiler:his execution]] came after a prolonged pattern of interference with the Pentacle; [[spoiler:he was killed by them]] and that's all that matters.

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* BigBrotherIsWatchingBavarianFireDrill: Wolsey deals with the belowmentioned BigBrotherIsWatching by using magical and mundane tricks to pretend he's a NSA agent and the FBI are intruding on his work.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Late in the Chronicle, Wolsey catches FBI agents snooping on Consilium matters and suspects but never gets to prove that they were Seer plants.



* ExperiencedProtagonist: While none of the three starting members of the Crucible are Adepts or even have Legacies at the start, they nevertheless have some time as Awakened under their belts and some renown already.



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* GreatBigBookOfEverythingGreatBigBookOfEverything: The DC Consilium has to deal with an Abyssal that takes the form of a book and tempts people into using it by providing information that would be hard if not impossible to get otherwise.

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* DueToTheDead: The Crucible had little good to say about [[spoiler:Malakii]] while he was still alive, but they choose nevertheless to free the shade of him [[spoiler:in Beckett's library]] even though it's not the real deal's soul.

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* DueToTheDead: The Crucible had little good to say about [[spoiler:Malakii]] while he was still alive, but they choose nevertheless to free [[spoiler:free the shade of him [[spoiler:in in Beckett's library]] library even though it's not the real deal's soul.]]


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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early on, Wolsey scoffs at Damascus's faith, suggesting that the Christian God is just an Exarch. [[spoiler:We never learn if this is true, but there is at least one deity from an existing religion who is indeed an Exarch, namely Shiva.]]
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* DueToTheDead: The Crucible had little good to say about [[spoiler:Malakii]] while he was still alive, but they choose nevertheless to free the shade of him [[spoiler:in Beckett's library]] even though it's not the real deal's soul.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Shiva's motivation for intervening ultimately turns out to be freeing his wife, whose soul was trapped in the Regalia of the Dethroned Queen after her hesitation cost her the chance to Ascend to Exarchdom alongside him and she died after the Fall.]]
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* TheArchmage: [[spoiler:Samuel]] becomes one partway through the Chronicle. Another one is responsible for the Ananke [[spoiler:that interferes in Kali's life.]] Then there's [[spoiler:Shiva, who even fragmented into an Ochemata]] still has Archmastery of Mind and Space.

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* TheArchmage: [[spoiler:Samuel]] becomes one partway through the Chronicle. Another one is responsible for the Ananke [[spoiler:that interferes in Kali's life.]] Then there's [[spoiler:Shiva, who even fragmented into an Ochemata]] Ochema]] still has Archmastery of Mind and Space.



* LordBritishPostulate: Indirectly brought up by the Storyteller regarding [[spoiler:Shiva's Ochemata]]; the stats he has - Archmastery of Mind and Space along with Mastery of almost every other Arcanum - makes him a magical monster far above anything in the DC Consilium, never mind the Crucible, but having stats at all does make him theoretically defeatable. [[spoiler:For better or worse, the Consilium doesn't end up needing to beat him in a fight.]]

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* LordBritishPostulate: Indirectly brought up by the Storyteller regarding [[spoiler:Shiva's Ochemata]]; Ochema]]; the stats he has - Archmastery of Mind and Space along with Mastery of almost every other Arcanum - makes him a magical monster far above anything in the DC Consilium, never mind the Crucible, but having stats at all does make him theoretically defeatable. [[spoiler:For better or worse, the Consilium doesn't end up needing to beat him in a fight.]]



* ProjectedAvatar: Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:the Exarch Shiva deploys an Ochemata, a fraction of his soul projected into the Fallen World.]]

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* ProjectedAvatar: Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:the Exarch Shiva deploys an Ochemata, Ochema, a fraction of his soul projected into the Fallen World.]]


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* ShoutOut:
** Two Pentacle Mages are named [[Series/QuantumLeap Samuel and Beckett]], with the former even involved in time travel matters.
** The final part of the Chronicle involves storming an office building in the middle of a snowstorm, like in the first ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''.
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[[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?279847-Actual-Play-Mage-The-Awakening-The-Broken-Diamond-(contains-Reign-of-the-Exarchs/page77 Links to compilation of the whole Actual Play.]]

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* TheArchmage: [[spoiler:Samuel]] becomes one partway through the Chronicle. Another one is responsible for the Ananke [[spoiler:that interferes in Kali's life.]] Then there's [[spoiler:Shiva, who even as a fragment of an Exarch]] still has Archmastery of Mind and Space.

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* TheArchmage: [[spoiler:Samuel]] becomes one partway through the Chronicle. Another one is responsible for the Ananke [[spoiler:that interferes in Kali's life.]] Then there's [[spoiler:Shiva, who even as a fragment of fragmented into an Exarch]] Ochemata]] still has Archmastery of Mind and Space.



* LordBritishPostulate: Indirectly brought up by the Storyteller regarding [[spoiler:Shiva]]; the stats he has - Archmastery of Mind and Space along with Mastery of almost every other Arcanum - makes him a magical monster far above anything in the DC Consilium, never mind the Crucible, but having stats at all does make him theoretically defeatable.

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* LordBritishPostulate: Indirectly brought up by the Storyteller regarding [[spoiler:Shiva]]; [[spoiler:Shiva's Ochemata]]; the stats he has - Archmastery of Mind and Space along with Mastery of almost every other Arcanum - makes him a magical monster far above anything in the DC Consilium, never mind the Crucible, but having stats at all does make him theoretically defeatable.defeatable. [[spoiler:For better or worse, the Consilium doesn't end up needing to beat him in a fight.]]



* ProjectedAvatar: [[spoiler:Shiva is an Ochemata, a fraction of an Exarch projected into the Fallen World.]]

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* ProjectedAvatar: [[spoiler:Shiva is Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:the Exarch Shiva deploys an Ochemata, a fraction of an Exarch his soul projected into the Fallen World.]]
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FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond follows a Cabal of [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Mages]] as they navigate the politics of Washington, DC, look for the line between their normal lives and the Supernal power that have placed them above {{Muggles}} and try to find out what it is they want to do with their [[AGodAmI unlimited]] [[RealityWarper power]]. FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond, along with FanFic/TheSoulCage, is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness or TabletopGames in general.

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FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond follows the Crucible, a Cabal of [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Mages]] Mages]], as they navigate the politics of Washington, DC, DC - the eponymous Broken Diamond - look for the line between their normal lives and the Supernal power that have placed them above {{Muggles}} and try to find out what it is they want to do with their [[AGodAmI unlimited]] [[RealityWarper power]]. What starts as a simple, almost makework task to discover who is painting graffiti of Atlantean glyphs, however, quickly becomes something with wide-ranging consequences for the whole city, if not the rest of the Fallen World.

FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond, along with FanFic/TheSoulCage, is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness or TabletopGames in general.



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* [[spoiler: CosmicRetcon]]
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* [[spoiler: DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu]]

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* EnemyCivilWar: [[spoiler:The House of Stone and House of Steel]] turn out to be opposing Ministries of Seers. Then there's [[spoiler:Shiva]], who mows down Seers in his way as nonchalantly as he does Pentacle Mages.



* [[spoiler: KingmakerScenario]]

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* [[spoiler: NightmareSequence]]
* [[spoiler: PhysicalGod: Why hello there, Shiva]]

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* TheArchmage: [[spoiler:Samuel]] becomes one partway through the Chronicle. Another one is responsible for the Ananke [[spoiler:that interferes in Kali's life.]] Then there's [[spoiler:Shiva, who even as a fragment of an Exarch]] still has Archmastery of Mind and Space.


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* LordBritishPostulate: Indirectly brought up by the Storyteller regarding [[spoiler:Shiva]]; the stats he has - Archmastery of Mind and Space along with Mastery of almost every other Arcanum - makes him a magical monster far above anything in the DC Consilium, never mind the Crucible, but having stats at all does make him theoretically defeatable.


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* ProjectedAvatar: [[spoiler:Shiva is an Ochemata, a fraction of an Exarch projected into the Fallen World.]]


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* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Shiva no sells Beckett's spell,]] then kills him with contemptuous ease.
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FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond follows a Cabal of [[MageTheAwakening Mages]] as they navigate the politics of Washington, DC, look for the line between their normal lives and the Supernal power that have placed them above {{Muggles}} and try to find out what it is they want to do with their [[AGodAmI unlimited]] [[RealityWarper power]]. FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond, along with FanFic/TheSoulCage, is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness or TabletopGames in general.

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FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond follows a Cabal of [[MageTheAwakening [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Mages]] as they navigate the politics of Washington, DC, look for the line between their normal lives and the Supernal power that have placed them above {{Muggles}} and try to find out what it is they want to do with their [[AGodAmI unlimited]] [[RealityWarper power]]. FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond, along with FanFic/TheSoulCage, is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness or TabletopGames in general.
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* HowDoYouLikeThemApples
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FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond follows a Cabal of [[MageTheAwakening Mages]] as they navigate the politics of Washington, DC, look for the line between their normal lives and the Supernal power that have placed them above {{Muggles}} and try to find out what it is they want to do with their [[AGodAmI unlimited]] [[RealityWarper power]]. FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond, along with TheSoulCage, is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness or TabletopGames in general.

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FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond follows a Cabal of [[MageTheAwakening Mages]] as they navigate the politics of Washington, DC, look for the line between their normal lives and the Supernal power that have placed them above {{Muggles}} and try to find out what it is they want to do with their [[AGodAmI unlimited]] [[RealityWarper power]]. FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond, along with TheSoulCage, FanFic/TheSoulCage, is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness or TabletopGames in general.
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TheBrokenDiamond follows a Cabal of [[MageTheAwakening Mages]] as they navigate the politics of Washington, DC, look for the line between their normal lives and the Supernal power that have placed them above {{Muggles}} and try to find out what it is they want to do with their [[AGodAmI unlimited]] [[RealityWarper power]]. TheBrokenDiamond, along with TheSoulCage, is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness or TabletopGames in general.

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TheBrokenDiamond FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond follows a Cabal of [[MageTheAwakening Mages]] as they navigate the politics of Washington, DC, look for the line between their normal lives and the Supernal power that have placed them above {{Muggles}} and try to find out what it is they want to do with their [[AGodAmI unlimited]] [[RealityWarper power]]. TheBrokenDiamond, FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond, along with TheSoulCage, is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness or TabletopGames in general.
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[[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=279847 The Broken Diamond]]

Order and Chaos. Liberty and Control. The use of Power.

The man trying to perfect himself as an example to others, finding enlightenment in serving others.

The one-eyed man in the labyrinth of the blind, breaking rules and committing sins in his search for something precious.

The woman finding herself by destroying herself, ripping lives apart in a search for something real.

TheBrokenDiamond follows a Cabal of [[MageTheAwakening Mages]] as they navigate the politics of Washington, DC, look for the line between their normal lives and the Supernal power that have placed them above {{Muggles}} and try to find out what it is they want to do with their [[AGodAmI unlimited]] [[RealityWarper power]]. TheBrokenDiamond, along with TheSoulCage, is an absolute must-read to anyone interested in TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening, the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness or TabletopGames in general.

[[Characters/TheBrokenDiamond The character sheet may be found here.]]

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* AmplifierArtifact
* AncientArtifact
* [[spoiler: AwesomeMomentOfCrowning]]
* BigBrotherIsWatching
* BrownNote
* TheClimax: complete with a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''.
* ClingyMacGuffin: [[spoiler: the Regalia]]
* ContainmentField
* [[spoiler: CosmicRetcon]]
* [[spoiler: CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure]]
* TheDarkSide
* [[spoiler: DeadPersonConversation]]
* [[spoiler: DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu]]
* FunctionalMagic
* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[HyperAwareness Mycroft]]
* GreatBigBookOfEverything
* HowDoYouLikeThemApples
* IKnowYourTrueName
* InvisibilityCloak: The Robe
* InvisibleToNormals: The Robe, again
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind
* [[spoiler: KingmakerScenario]]
* MacGuffin: Two different groups: [[spoiler: the Regalia of the Dethroned Queen for the Dethroned Queen, along with the Eyes of Salt/Heart of Flies for Cxaxa Querephas]]
* MindControlDevice: The Crown, along with the regular type of Profane Urim.
* MindRape
* [[spoiler: NightmareSequence]]
* [[spoiler: PhysicalGod: Why hello there, Shiva]]
* PoliceAreUseless
* [[spoiler: {{Reincarnation}}]]
* SecretIdentity
* SevenDeadlySins
* SevenHeavenlyVirtues
* TimeTravel
* TwoGuysAndAGirl
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