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The Asylum is both a place and the name of the pylon that runs that place, a place of despair and the mages who spread that despair. It is Boston’s reigning pylon and, technically, outranks the other two pylons, meaning — theoretically — that members of the Asylum are more likely to have more direct knowledge of the Exarchs. This is certainly the impression of the other two pylons. While the shadowy mages of the Asylum may deploy other mages or even other cabals as the Asylum sees fit, the Asylum’s rarely, if ever, personally involve themselves in conflict. The Asylum’s members expect to be the ones who rid the city of the Ebon Noose and the White Putnams — but this pylon do it through the hands and magics of others.
The Asylum conducts a quiet war on Consilium mages. Tactical applications of Fate and Time magic ensure that the Asylum has an uncanny — and terrifying — knack for being where Boston’s mages least want them to be: during a Paradox backlash, approaching right as a mage passes out from loss of blood or any time a solitary, overly curious, mage is poking her nose where it doesn’t belong.
The Asylum typically overwhelms its targets with numbers. Three or four powerful Asylum mages will converge on a tired, wounded or otherwise compromised mage and launch a massive assault using Mind magic. A solitary mage might defend against one or even two such attacks, but the Asylum knows quite well just how much force to apply to drop a mage.
The Asylum is obsessed with isolating the portion of the brain responsible for Awakening. Those mages it abducts are often subjected to a barrage of tests, both magical and mundane, as the members of the Asylum use their victims as research subjects. The mind, the body and the soul are all fair game to these mages, and, whether they acknowledge the fact or not, most Consilium mages are terrified of the Asylum. In particular, Anacaona de Xaragua of the Ebon Noose has a particular dislike for the Asylum because it represents a threat to the Consilium that she has not yet been able to neutralize.
The mages of the Asylum are experienced and capable. Their leader is a nigh-legendary Seer called the Gray Pope, a shadow name that elicits both fear and respect from other mages.
Sanctum: The Asylum
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In downtown Boston, within mere blocks of the commonwealth’s capitol, is a grand old building constructed at the end of the 19th century. The structure’s conservative architecture belies the intense nature of the magic that takes place inside.
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