Conventions

Each convention is an element of the fiction you would like to see consistently in play. It might be a particular genre convention, or it might be a broad truth about the world in which the game is set or the attitudes of the society.

Add your Convention ideas below:

Mood Conventions

• Operatives will do anything for hope
• No society member will break his word
• Honour is all things to the society
• The life of a master is sacrosanct
• The society abhors change
• Revisionism is the true core of the society
• We are all somehow failures
• No two cells ever agree on policy

Belief Conventions

• The society holds to a dualist philosophy akin to Manichaeism
• The society holds a Zoroastrian-based faith
• The society holds a pagan belief set
• The society are Mithras worshippers
• Astrology guides all choices in the society
• Always refer to the sacred texts
• Every member of the cell must be married

Conventions on how the world works

• Guns finish situations
• Training always wins
• The society abhors modern technology
• Duelling is the final solution
• There are invisible entities

Conventions that detail the setting

• The Inner Council are all dead
• The order of the sword has been disbanded by the council
• Renegade masters are eliminating rogue cells

Related

Wikipedia of Manichaeism∞
Wikipedia on Zoroastrianism∞