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Companion

By Joseph Carriker, Jennifer LawrenCe, Jesse heinig,

Dean shomshak, DaviD nurenBerg, neD Coker,

Jason BoLte, Jeff ComBos anD m. seChin tower

CreDits

Writtenby: JosephCarriker,JenniferLawrence,JesseHeinig,

Dean Shomshak, David Nurenberg, Ned Coker, Jason Bolte,

Jeff Combos and M. Sechin Tower

Developer: Eddy Webb

Scion Line Developer: John Chambers

Creative Director: Rich Thomas

Production Manager: matt milberger

Editor: Jason Bolte, Genevieve Podleski

Art Director: matt milberger, Brian Glass

Book Design: matt milberger, Jessica Mullins

Layout: Jessica Mullins

Layout Assistance: Priscilla Kim

Interior Art: John Christopher, Oliver Diaz, Jenny Frison,

Tom Garden, Andy Hepworth, Woodrow Hinton III,

JeffHolt,JeffLaubenstein,JacobMasbruch,JustinNorman,

TedPendergraft,ChrisPritchard,DaveRapoza,JamesStowe,

Matias Tapia and Rich Thomas

Cover Art: Trevor Claxton

series

sCion: hero

find your Destiny

sCion: DemigoD

Live the myth

sCion: goD

embrace your fate

sCion ragnarok

end the world

sCion Companion

master the unknown

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rights reserved. Scion Hero, Scion Demigod, Scion God, Scion Ragnarök

characters, names, places and text herein are copyrighted by CCP hf. CCP

North America Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CCP hf.

This book uses the supernatural for settings, characters and themes. All mystical and supernatural elements are iction and intended

for entertainment purposes only. This book contains mature content. Reader discretion is advised.

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Companion

taBLe of Contents

introDuCtion

part one: the tuatha De Dannan

part two: manifestation of iChor

part three: CeLestiaL BureauCraCy

part four: seCrets of the worLD

125

part five: the Devas

159

part six: the worLD at war

199

introDuCtion

This book was cursed. Hell, this line was cursed.

I’m not exaggerating when I say that. It even had a name

around the ofice: “the Scion Curse.” It seemed that every single

Scion book was plagued with bizarre and unusual delays, compli-

cations and obstacles that no other projects seemed to encounter

in terms of frequency or originality. I’ve seen or heard of every-

thing from contracts completely disappearing to strange technical

problems that don’t show up again and couldn’t be duplicated to

children being born at inconvenient times to an artist’s house get-

ting struck by lightning and losing weeks of work (even sending a

picture from his cell phone of the damage the storm caused).

So when it was decided to make the Scion Companion an

even more complicated book to produce, I admit I was nervous

about the prospect. The idea was to make the Companion into

six small sourcebooks (which I ended up calling “parts” instead of

“chapters”), and four parts would be released individually as elec-

tronic books prior to this book’s release. Fans could either buy

the parts they wanted for their own games, or purchase a subscrip-

tion to all four parts, which would be conveniently delivered to

them in their email when each part was released. Not only would

this mean that we could get new material out to Scion fans faster,

but it was also a chance to get some of the material reviewed by

the fans and possibly revised before the inal book was released.

It was a really intriguing idea, and as the newly minted

Alternative Publishing Developer at the time, the book was

passed off to me to develop. I had some initial conversations with

Creative Director Rich Thomas and Scion Line Developer John

Chambers, and then proceeded to start work on the book. In ret-

rospect, trying to develop and produce each part one after the

other instead of all at once was a mistake; it added a lot of needless

complexity to a line that was already cursed with logistical prob-

lems. I tried to defy the Gods, and boy did they punish me for my

hubris. But I was blessed with a stunningly talented collection of

writers, artists and art directors, and the book you’re holding is

the result of all of that hard work in the face of astonishing odds.

Go back to the credits page; every single person there helped make

this book happen, and I have a huge debt of gratitude to them.

This is the second inal book for the Scion line. Originally,

Scion was intended only as a three-book line (to be concluded

with Scion: God ), but response to the game was so incredible

that it was decided to do two more books: Scion: Ragnarök and

the Scion Companion . Between its unusual production history

and its place as the ifth book of a trilogy, the Companion is a

unique book at the conclusion of a unique line.

Parts One, Three and Five each cover one of three new

pantheons: the Tuatha Dé Dannan or Irish Gods, the Celestial

Bureaucracy or Chinese Gods, and the Devas or Hindu Gods.

Each of these sections contains everything you’ll need to know

about these pantheons, including descriptions of the gods

of each pantheon, a complete 1 to 10 dot write up of their

pantheon Purview, new Birthrights, new allies, new antagonists,

details on their Overworld and Underworld, a new Titan that

plagues each pantheon and two sample Scions (one hero and

one demigod) so players can jump right into the game.

Part Two, Manifestations of Ichor , is a collection of new

rules for Scion players. Included are rules on how to make a

demigod or God at character creation, 27 new Knacks (three for

each Epic Attribute), 15 new Birthrights (three Creatures, three

Followers, three Guides and six Relics), a complete pantheon

Purview and Virtues for the Atlantean pantheon irst detailed

in Scion: Demigod , 32 new All-Purpose Purview Boons (two for

each Purview) and 10 new Magic spells.

Part Four covers the Secrets of the World , a variety of Storyteller

suggestions and articles to help expand your Scion cycle. There’s

information on politics between the Gods and their Scions, more

information on feats of strength, more equipment and weapons

(including new Relics), a new antagonist group (the Order of

the Divine Glory), information on Legendary companions for

Scions, step-by-step advice on how to create your own pantheons,

titanspawn and Relics, and 26 new story ideas for your cycle.

Part Six allows you to put your Scion cycle back in time

to World War II. The World at War covers the history of

WWII from a Scion perspective, updated information on

three of the original pantheons and the roles they play in the

conlict (along with a hero and demigod character), two new

pantheons – the Yankee pantheon and the Allied pantheons

– complete with sample hero and demigod for each (as well

as a full description of each new pantheon’s Purview), advice

on running a WWII cycle, mass combat rules for Scion , and

statistics for military equipment.

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

As mentioned earlier, this is a collection of parts. Each part in this book was designed to be included

into a Scion cycle as needed, with very little reference to the other parts. If you want to play a Scion of the

Celestial Bureaucracy but don’t want to deal with the Tuatha or the Devas, just lip to Part Three and don’t

worry about the other pantheons. If you want to use some of the powers in Part Two but not others, take

what makes sense and leave the rest. If you like the Yankee pantheon but want to run a modern-day cycle,

just bring them forward in time to deal with the titanspawn (and other realities) of the 21st century. This

is a toolbox of ideas, tools and inspiration – you can pick just the parts you want to use, or dump them

all out on the loor and start putting them together into new and different conigurations. Like any good

companion, this book tries to be as versatile as possible, so that it might have just the thing you need when

you’re in a jam or when you want to start moving things around and making some changes.

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