The Fallen World Chronicle Anthology

by Dave Brookshaw (Editor), Wood Ingham, Matthew McFarland

The world is a Lie

A prison for souls warped by an Abyss of madness. People Sleep through their lives, never knowing the wonders and terrors concealed from them. Awakened mages see the Lie for what it is, scratching the surface and uncovering the World of Darkness' Mysteries. Each is a revelation, a danger, an obsession in the making. Armed with magic and a need to know, mages confront the supernatural and unexplained.

The Fallen World Anthology contains 12 short stories (8 original to this collection) of magic and mystery, in celebration of the second edition of Mage: The Awakening.

Featuring stories by:

Rick Chillot, Wood Ingham, Matthew McFarland, John Newman, Malcolm Sheppard, Geoff Skellams, Tristan J Tarwater, Eddy Webb, and Eric Zawazdki.

Genres: Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Role Playing Games, World Of Darkness

137 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2015

Reviews

[Krzysztof · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ponieważ to zbiór opowiadań, to dość ciężko jest go oceniać jako całość. Ostatecznie decyduję się na 4 gwiazdki, ale od razu zaznaczam, że wewnątrz znajdziemy opowiadania warte ledwie 2 jaki i takie, które spokojnie zasługują na 5. Na pewno jednak jest to pozycja do której warto jest sięgnąć, zwłaszcza jeśli ktoś lubi grać w Maga. Na pewno też stanowi dość ciekawe uzupełnienie obrazu świata przedstawionego w głównym podręczniku do Maga - przebudzenia.

[Roger Nicholls · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mixed bag of stories within this anthology.

Mixed bag of short stories within this anthology. For the most part enjoyable easy reads but the odd 1 or 2 didn't quite hit the mark for me.

[Peter De Kinder · Rating 3 out of 5]

The stories in the anthology aren't bad, but not up to snuff with what I expected after reading the God Machine Anthology a while back. The story about the demonic wheel was at least reminiscent about this preivous anthology. I also find it requires some knowledge of the world setting to gete all the nuances, where I had hoped to read this book to get an introduction into the world.

[Kevin Weaver · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the style of Onyx Path's other fiction anthologies, The Fallen World Chronicle Anthology is a combination of new stories and reused "chapter fiction" from books in the Mage: The Awakening role-playing setting.

The anthology is well-written and covers a myriad of different characters, with the essential theme of "What happens when humans have access to world-altering magical power."

Depth of the stories range from pulpy urban fantasy to heady contemplation of the nature of power. Due to the concepts covered, some of the stories were hard to grasp. When a tale begins with a wizard putting a new soul into another wizard in order to investigate the mystery behind his own death, you know things are gonna get weird.