History TabletopGame / GURPSTechnomancer

Has been integrated into the ''TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' meta-setting, under the designation of 'Merlin-1'. It's mostly used as an example of a high-mana world and a world you want to tread lightly in. ''No one'' wants these guys figuring out crossworld tech.

* ChurchMilitant: The Rachelites believe that magic is God's gift, and is to be used to fight evil. While they don't form a military organization themselves, joining the US military or police is a religious calling.

* FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Religion has had to adapt to the manafall. In general, mainline Christianity has accepted the coming of magic with good grace, but a few new sects have popped up (such as the Knights of the Apocalypse, who are the Klan for chimeras, and the Rachelites, an ecstatic branch of Christianity that seeks magical visions). Also, Wicca and other neopagan religions are far more popular than they are on our Earth.

* {{Ghostapo}}: The Condor Group in Argentina are former SS wizards.

* FantasticDrug: There's a couple. Spelljack is a mix of cocaine and crushed [[PowerStone powerstones]], giving a boost to any mage who uses it, along with GlowingEyesOfDoom and a hint of power-madness. Then there's purified human theokinesin protein (PHTP). It gives Magery to nonmages who use it, and powers up weak mages, but the side effect is that it loses its effect and wipes out any existing magery, just leaving a sucky addiction. Also, while it can be synthesized, it's easier for the cartels to just [[HumanResources kidnap mages and grind their brains up to make it]].

* MilitaryMage: "Warlocks" are mages who use their abilities in the military. The 13th Necromantic Operations Group was largely responsible for America's victory in the Vietnam War.

* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Two chimeras (spider centaurs and serpent centaurs).

* WeirdHistoricalWar: After the [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent Hellstorm]] in 1945, a number of real-world wars still went ahead with China facing stiff resistance from magic Tibetian monks in their invasion of 1950 and Iranian Revolution takes place while Shah is being treated for vampiric leukaemia in the United States in 1979.

* {{Magitek}}: Check the title. It's ubiquitous and has profoundly shaped North American society (and the rest of the world to a significantly lesser extent). Architecture is neo-Gothic because it's cheaper to build skyscrapers out of elemental stone than glass and steel, medicine has been replaced with healing magic to the point that "old skills" like basic surgery are considered an elective, NASA uses teleportation in place of rockets, and the 13th Necromantic Operations Group and the Blue Dragons won Vietnam for the United States. And while using magic while playing football is forbidden, celebrity wizards cast the spells that keep it from raining on the Super Bowl.

* TheMenInBlack: "Mages in Black" are part of the general lore around [[TheFairFolk Seelie]] sightings and abductions (which may or may not actually happen).

* OurDragonsAreDifferent: There are two kinds of dragon. Blue dragons are intelligent, friendly Western dragons, who work for the US Air Force as self-aware aircraft (their scales are green; "blue" refers to their employment. The "red" dragons are really of the same color, but they worked for the USSR). Black dragons also work for the USAF, but have been genetically engineered into {{Magitek}} stealth fighters.

* CatGirl: It's a David Pulver book, so they will exist somewhere. In ''Technomancer'', cat halflings (half-human, half-chimera) are LittleBitBeastly, and their females fit the trope - though they're technically ''puma'' girls.

* CureYourGays: This is possible with the right magic, but the Geas is not endorsed by the psychiatric profession for this purpose. The geas ''is'', of course, being advocated by the usual suspects.

* WhoShotJFK: It is briefly mentioned that Oswald's use of a {{CIA}} developed "Magic Bullet" spell was covered up. The how and why he got his hands on the spell is left unstated.

* {{Ghostapo}}: The Condor Group in Argentina are former SS wizards.

** [[TruthSerums Compel Truth]] is the ''big'' example of this trope: it's constitutional, every witness who takes the stand has to take it, and it's a big help in getting the innocent exonerated.

* TheDarkArts: This concept isn't really a part of American discourse on magic, and very few spells are illegal [[note]]though some potions are, and some spells are ''classified''[[/note]] in and of themselves; raising human zombies (outside of Louisiana) is unlawful interference with a corpse [[note]]silk from zombie ''spiders'' is a vital industrial product[[/note]], while summoning demons is an immigration issue. Also, the US military will use any and every tool that'll win it victory. With that said, society is ''really'' afraid of magical mind control.

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Averted. When discussing activist groups and terrorists, the book makes it pretty clear that the League of Chimera Voters and the Nightclaw vigilantes are supposed to look like white hats, while Loki's Stepchildren (a chimera group who [[AssholeVictim attack the Knights of the Apocalypse]]) are listed under "terrorists."

** Before youth elixir, the Argentine Nazis had their own tricks, often necromantic, and (as one would expect from Nazi magic) reeking of ImmortalityImmortality. The favored method is to BodySurf, but literally stealing the youth from political captives works too.

** Before youth elixir, the Argentine Nazis had their own tricks, often necromantic, and (as one would expect from Nazi magic) PoweredByAForsakenChild. The favored method is to BodySurf, but literally stealing the youth from political captives works too.

** Eva Peron is also immortal due to Nazi magic. This is most notable because she did it ''before'' youth magic became publically available, and led the Condor Group to become the central controlling organization in Argentina.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: The Condor Group qualify despite being [[{{Ghostapo Nazi wizards]]. The magical gene is rare enough that they've taken to adopting Native children from Tierra del Fuego, as the population there was heavily dosed by the Antarctic manafall. These kids are now part of the Peronista ruling class, and are fighting their own cousins in the ongoing Dirty War.

* BountyHunter: "Hellhound" is the general slang for "monster hunter." In this setting, weird stuff escaping from a lab or the Hellstorm happens often enough that there are people who specialize in it - particularly when someone would rather not call the police. Hellhounds range from clean-cut CDC teams, to grizzled duos working out of Albequrque offices and resembling private detectives with trenchcoats and broadswords, to the Leviathan Group's Cerberus black-bag team (who gave the profession its nickname).

* BountyHunter: "Hellhound" is the general slang for "monster hunter." In this setting, weird stuff escaping from a lab or the Hellstorm happens often enough that there are people who specialize in it - particularly when someone would rather not call the police. Hellhounds range from clean-cut CDC teams, to grizzled duos working out of Albequrque offices and resembling private detectives with trenchcoats and broadswords, to the sinister black-bag teams of the Leviathan Group's GHOST.

* BountyHunter: "Hellhound" is the general slang for "monster hunter." In this setting, weird stuff escaping from a lab or the Hellstorm happens often enough that there are people who specialize in it - particularly when someone would rather not call the police.