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5	Order and Chaos. Liberty and Control. The use of Power.
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7	The man trying to perfect himself as an example to others, finding enlightenment in serving others.
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9	The one-eyed man in the labyrinth of the blind, breaking rules and committing sins in his search for something precious.
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11	The woman finding herself by destroying herself, ripping lives apart in a search for something real.
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13	FanFic/TheBrokenDiamond follows the Crucible, a Cabal of [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Mages]], as they navigate the politics of Washington, 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.
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15	''The Broken Diamond'', 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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17	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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19	[[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?279847-Actual-Play-Mage-The-Awakening-The-Broken-Diamond-(contains-Reign-of-the-Exarchs/page88 Links to compilation of the whole Actual Play.]]
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21	As per Administrivia/HandlingSpoilers, trope listings are not to be hidden; read on at your own risk!
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24	!! This LetsPlay provides examples of:
25	%%* AmplifierArtifact
26	%%* AncientArtifact
27	* 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 Ochema]] still has Archmastery of Mind and Space.
28	%%* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning
29	* BavarianFireDrill: 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.
30	* 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.
31	%%* BrownNote
32	%%* TheClimax: Complete with a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''.%%ZCE
33	%%* ClingyMacGuffin: [[spoiler: The Regalia.]]
34	%%* ContainmentField
35	%%* CosmicRetcon
36	%%* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure
37	%%* TheDarkSide
38	%%* DeadPersonConversation
39	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu
40	* 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.
41	* DueToTheDead: The Crucible had little good to say about [[spoiler:Malakii]] while he was still alive, but they choose nevertheless to [[spoiler:free the shade of him in Beckett's library even though it's not the real deal's soul.]]
42	* 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.
43	* 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.]]
44	* 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.
45	* {{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.]]
46	* FightingAShadow: Near the end of the story, [[spoiler:the Exarch Shiva deploys an Ochema, a fraction of his soul projected into the Fallen World]].
47	%%* FunctionalMagic
48	%%* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[HyperAwareness Mycroft.]]
49	* GreatBigBookOfEverything: 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.
50	%%* IKnowYourTrueName
51	%%* InvisibilityCloak: The Robe.
52	%%* InvisibleToNormals: The Robe, again.
53	%%* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind
54	%%* KingmakerScenario
55	* LordBritishPostulate: Indirectly brought up by the Storyteller regarding [[spoiler:Shiva's 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.]]
56	* 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]]
57	%%* MindControlDevice: The Crown, along with the regular type of Profane Urim.
58	%%* MindRape
59	%%* NightmareSequence
60	%%* PhysicalGod: Why hello there, [[spoiler: Shiva]].
61	%%* PoliceAreUseless
62	%%* {{Reincarnation}}
63	* 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.
64	%%* SecretIdentity
65	%%* SevenDeadlySins
66	%%* SevenHeavenlyVirtues
67	* ShoutOut:
68	** Two Pentacle Mages are named [[Series/QuantumLeap Samuel and Beckett]], with the former even involved in time travel matters.
69	** The final part of the Chronicle involves storming an office building in the middle of a snowstorm, like in the first ''VideoGame/MaxPayne''.
70	%%* TimeTravel
71	%%* TwoGuysAndAGirl
72	* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Shiva no sells Beckett's spell]], then kills him with contemptuous ease.

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