History TabletopGame / AgeOfAquarius

* NobleWolf: Evgeni Veeda, a LawfulGood and very badass [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]].

* ExtranormalInstitute: the Institute of Applied Exophysics was one before TheGreatPoliticsMessUp. Then it had to become a full-on force of TheMenInBlack.

* MainliningTheMonster: Vampire saliva is used to make a LaserGuidedAmnesia inducing drug. No profit on it is made, though, since [[{{MIB}} the Institute]], who owns the technology, is a noncommercial organization, and it needs the drug itself to enforce TheMasquerade.

%%* TheNewRussia:

* PostModernMagic: called "neo-magic". It allows you mix different magical traditions and will never conflict with modern lifestyles, but will always be underpowered compared to "pure" {{Ancient Tradition}}s.

* UsefulNotes/RedOctober: the ([[DevelopmentHell yet unreleased]]) prequel game ''Age of Pisces: Scarlet Dawn'' will be set in this era. Think {{Deadlands}} [[RecycledInSpace IN SOVIET RUSSIA!]]

* TricksterMentor: Granddaddy Semyon again. His favourite way of teaching magic is via phone prank. If Semyon [[CerebusSyndrome appears in person and speaks plainly and clearly]], it means [[OhCrap some serious trouble a-brewing]], serious enough to warrant his personal intervention. The last time he did so was UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo.

* KnightOfCerebus: the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Fallen Primordials]], not appearing in any of the two main edition books, but stated in previews to be the {{Big Bad}}s behind the prequel game ''[[RedOctober Age of Pisces: Scarlet Dawn]]'' and suspected to be actually responsible for the attack on the Institute in 1992. [=AoP:SD=] is already explicitly stated to be DarkerAndEdgier than the main setting, and the main setting itself grew somewhat DarkerAndEdgier after the developers (Aurora, to be precise) came up with these guys.

* RedOctober: the ([[DevelopmentHell yet unreleased]]) prequel game ''Age of Pisces: Scarlet Dawn'' will be set in this era. Think {{Deadlands}} [[RecycledInSpace IN SOVIET RUSSIA!]]

* TricksterMentor: Granddaddy Semyon again. His favourite way of teaching magic is via phone prank. If Semyon [[CerebusSyndrome appears in person and speaks plainly and clearly]], it means [[OhCrap some serious trouble a-brewing]], serious enough to warrant his personal intervention. The last time he did so was WorldWarTwo.

* BigBadassWolf: Evgeni Veeda, a LawfulGood and very badass [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]].

* TheNewRussia: but of course.

* GameBreaker: PsychicPowers in the first edition. Especially the infamous Psychic Vampirism bug that allowed psychics to boost their Confidence into space.

''Age of Aquarius'' (Russian: Эра Водолея) is the first commercial TabletopRPG produced in Russia. Appeared in 2001 and went through two editions to date, it is set in [[LikeRealityUnlessNoted a world similar to our own]], where various supernatural phenomena are a reality but are hidden under TheMasquerade. It was compared to the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'', but unlike it, Age of Aquarius is a [[WorldHalfFull more optimistic and idealistic world]].

* AllMythsAreTrue: played with. Because of the [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve somewhat malleable]] nature of supernatural reality, everything what a lot of people believe in exists in some form. Can it interact with you is another question.

* {{Expy}}: DEFENDER, of FinalFantasyVIII's [=SeeD=].

* KnightOfCerebus: the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Fallen Primordials]], not appearing in any of the two main edition books, but stated in previews to be the {{Big Bad}}s behind the prequel game ''[[RedOctober Age of Pisces: Scarlet Dawn]]'' and suspected to be actually responsible for the attack on the Institute in 1992. AoP:SD is already explicitly stated to be DarkerAndEdgier than the main setting, and the main setting itself grew somewhat DarkerAndEdgier after the developers (Aurora, to be precise) came up with these guys.

** DEFENDER has a pilot named [[FinalFantasy Cid]].

** The current development team is called POPEREK, which is Russian for [[Anime/ExcelSaga ACROSS]].

* ExtranormalInstitute: the Institute of Applied Exophysics was one before TheGreatPoliticsMessUp. Then it had to become a full-on force of {{MIB}}.

* {{MIB}}: all organisations of the Nettersheim Pact are various kinds of MIB. The Russian IAE is a quite benevolent (and mostly plainclothes) version; some others are not.

According to the story, the astrological age of Pisces, associated with organized religion and science, is [[EndOfAnAge slowly fading]], and the new age of Aquarius, [[TheMagicComesBack associated with magic]], is setting foot on the world. But our society is incapable to deal with it without catastrophical changes, necessitating use of TheMasquerade to unveil the truth very slowly. To do that, an [[{{MIB}} international conspiracy of security agencies]] is created in 1945, called the Nettersheim Pact.

* PostModernMagic: called "neo-magic". It allows you mix different magical traditions, but will always be underpowered compared to "pure" {{Ancient Tradition}}s.

''Age of Aquarius'' (Russian: Эра Водолея) is the first commercial TabletopRPG produced in Russia. Appeared in 2001 and went through two editions to date, it is set in [[LikeRealityUnlessNoted a world similar to our own]], where various supernatural phenomena are a reality but are hidden under TheMasquerade. It was compared to the WorldOfDarkness, but unlike it, Age of Aquarius is a [[WorldHalfFull more optimistic and idealistic world]].

** The current development team is called POPEREK, which is Russian for [[ExcelSaga ACROSS]].

** The (now defunct) Era-Aquarius forum also contained the [[WordOfGod developers' references]] to "the Black Net", who are supposed to be the Fallen Primordials' mortal agents and be capable of collapsing the intricate balance of TheMasquerade.

* KnightOfCerebus: the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Fallen Primordials]], not appearing in any of the two main edition books, but stated in previews to be the BigBads behind the prequel game ''[[RedOctober Age of Pisces: Scarlet Dawn]]'' and suspected to be actually responsible for the attack on the Institute in 1992.

* ShoutOut: the 13th Department of NSA (the American Nettersheimer organisation) is an allusion to Bureau13.