Over a hundred generations ago, the Occultists of old began a great
Working of magic. This Sarapin, 304 years after the fall of the
Selucarian Empire, we the modern Occultists have seen that Work to an
astoundingly successful completion. With this, we have regained the
mystical karmic knowledge of Occultism lost to us in the Burning Times.
Long before we became Masters of the Major Arcana - before we discovered
the secrets of interplanary travel and forging pacts with powerful Chaos
Lords - before Countess Belladona corrupted our ways and turned us on
the path of Necromancy - we were scholars of Occultism, powerful chaos
magicks beyond imagination.

Once we were persecuted and forced to practice our arts from the
shadows. We were burned alive because of our desire to study the
unknown, to discover secrets hidden in the very fabric of space-time and
reality, the powers that lie within each soul. We were driven
underground, yet we bore it and survived despite losing much of what we
had known. Since the time of Nicator, when the Occultists fought against
the Black Wave, we have slowly emerged further from the shadows, many of
us becoming prominent Achaeans unafraid of concealing our identities in
this more free and enlightened age.

I herald the dawning of a new age for the Occultists guild! We reclaim
Occultism as our true art, the core of the teachings that make us who we
are. Gone are the days when we had to rely on the essence of living
beings. Gone are the magicks fueled by decay. Our powers stem now from
Chaos and Art, no longer undeath and evil. And to those who insist on
holding on to the old delusion that Chaos and Evil are one and the same,
I advise you take a look to recent events instead of digging up
allusions to a the past, for the past is dead and gone. Life is here,
for the living, and it is how we live it now and tomorrow that matters.

"I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists
build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh
in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are
free."
- Eris, Goddess of Chaos

For the Occultists,

Shakti Devi, Demiurge

Penned by my hand on the 8th of Daedalan, in the year 304 AF.