By Hector Alvarez Alonso and Adrian Rodriguez
(Note that the original version of this document was in very garbled English. I have tried to put it in a more understandable form, but if I have misrepresented the intentions of the authors, please let me know.)
Since early times the inhabitants of the the Valley of the Ebro have exalted the image of the Butterfly of three heads, symbolizing change and the cycle of life and death. The priests of the primordial Order of Hermes felt their beliefs were a perversion and taking advantage of Ebro's support of Carthage, had the Romans lay seige to Numancia, the capital of the valley, 133 B.C. Numancia, at that time populated by ethnic OIlerguetes, was eventually destroyed by Roman troops, but not after a long seige. The Numantinos could endure many days of isolation, but finally their spirits weakened. By the end of the seige, the city's inhabitants had been reduced to cannibalism. Before being enslaved by the Romans, however, they did manage to perform the Baptism of Fire. The few men and women who survived were expelled and harbored a deep hatred that has never diminished. After many years, they founded the city of Lleida.
When the Romans were converted to Christianity, the people of Lleida were pressured to admit the Church of Christ to their city. Finally, the Tricapita had to relinquish control. A Summo Sacerdo named Gelet reformed the Cult of Tugej, drastically changing its structure. Known from then on as the Order of Gelet, there is little information about the original cult. The Order fled Lleida, allowing foreigners into the city. The invaders ransacked the city, killing many of the inhabitants, but also destroying the Christian churches. The men of Gelet returned to a city in ruin and soon had established their rule.
The Christians, however, were not expulsed and the Geletianos had to live with them, though everyone knew who was in charge. The Church, hated the Geletianos and the Hermetics viewed them as rivals. In the Middle Ages, the Order of Hermes declared Magi War on the Order of Gelet and after huge losses on both sides, defeated them. The Hermetics dubbed the war the War of the Idol when, at its close the Summo Sacerdo fled with the Three Headed Butterfly. The Idol was lost and the cult decimated.
Without their idol, the Order of Gelet fell into decline. They became violent and lost. The Christians took advantage of their situation and obtained position of power within the cult, which is why Soria is known for its wonderful Gothic Churches. The magicians that were followers of the Cult could see that their grip on power was fading. They tried to control from the shadows, but because they could not communicate with their butterfly, they failed even there.
Finally in 1464, the Idol reappeared in the hands of a young, unknown Sacerdo named Oujel. He was elected the new Summo Sacerdo and appearing in Numancia, repaired the scattered Sacerdos. In a few years, there were thirty Sacerdos and Oujel spoke:
Ours is the fervor of its thirst,
thirst of power, violence and death.
The road will be made obscure sometimes,
many will have to succumb to their mistake
they will eat our dregs,
because will not be men by the terror.
Ours is the fervor of its thirst,
thirst of power, violence and death.
In Numancia capital of the death"
Little is known about Oujel and almost nothing about how he had found a way to obtain the power to allow the butterfly to be incarnated as an Idol. But the Idol was there to demonstrate that they had returned to be born. The Seed of Tugej was planted, and the Numantinos after having died two times and been born three were returning to be in their home: Numancia.
Numancia the then glorious capital of the Ilerguetes from the days of its destruction had stayed solitary, inhabited by sporadic families. Oujel, gathered all the men and women that who had been scattered all over the region and delivered his speech, the Revelation of the Butterfly. It was a massive Epiphany and all the people were converted to the new Sacerdos. The momentum of the Oujel permitted the Men of Tugej to join the Euthanatos, protecting them from the Order of Hermes. the Oscuristas, though knowing the Order of Hermes is much more powerful, continuies undaunted along its road toward Eternity.
The Oujelitas gather on the nights of important dates. They have a complex organization, which can be expressed by a complex flowchart of power between the Sacerdos, finishing in the Summo Sacerdo. They are more subtle than past times, for they have been defeated thrice before and do not want to be defeated again. It is not cowardice that runs the politics of the new order, but subtlety. Do the work well, they say, but do it silently, or you will make enemies more dangerous than every before.
The Philosophy Oujelita is that of the violence, that violence forces man to improve, that violence brings death and removes what is static. Furthermore, through violence, the Oscurista can improve and through his violence, incites violence in others, bringing them closer to Ascension. When life lacks sense, violence sparks that person to revive, to die and relive.
The Oujelitas are not interesting in the Ascension of all of humanity, but instead wish to bring on the Age of Tugej, the Age of Death.
rituals are extremely powerful and feared.
The Oujelitas learned this field from the other Traditions, and after many years a Sacerdo adapted it to the philosophy of Tugej. They are capable of seeing through insects, of practically any nocturnal animal. In addition to already learning what is sufficient, they can leap and in an instant and reappear where before there was an insect.
Entropy: The Violence
The Violence is the mother of all the other spheres. Through The Violence is procured all, and the Oujelitas can be considered corruptive by their own violence. The Oujelitas can influence violence on the living and dead beings, and on inanimate and animate objects.
Forces: Ignis
Fire is almost the only force that the Oujelitas know, thus they are capable of creating and finishing with fire. Perhaps it is after so many years fighting with their enemies, the Flambeau.
Life: Naturalis
This is a field that is semi-restricted by the Oujelitas. They always link it to the Violence, for they feel if they focus on life, then they will lose site with the real reality, Violence.
Matter: Mud, Wax
Water and the natural materials are what the Oujelitas know as matter. They are experta in creating mud or wax statues that at high levels imitate life.
Mind: The Impulses
The Oujelitas are expert in awakening impulses of terror, violence, passion, etc... Furthermore, they can access the violent part of people and to awaken a violent spark even in the calm.
Prime: The Residue
To see Quintessence, and furthermore, when a Oujelita uses well the Residues, he is capable of creating other Impulses or Violences. Thus they are capable of potent effects. The Violence tends to leave a residue that a Oujelita, learned in this field, can use.
Spirit: Ars Mortuus
The Oujelitas believe that the spirits are the men who someday will return to life and teach them to forge their own violence. Thus alone Oujelitas can accede to the inferior threshold. Furthermore, for power to use this field the Oujelitas should have something dead in hand.
Time: The Cycle
All the Oujelitas who begin this field, know that life and death processes are always united in cycles and time effects for them are united also in the cycles.
All life, acts, facts, or violent situations are capable of leaving a residue that the expert Oscurista knows to collect. The residues that keep a relationship to the effect that they want to accomplish, help oscurista to guide the acts toward that path. The residues that do not keep a relationship, on the other hand, guide the randoms toward other effects.
Paradox: The Contramedida
When a Oscurista carries out an action that carries unnecessary violence, there is created a reaction that violently punishes Oscurista. Tugej punishes those who use the violence in a way with little intelligence, or when a oscurista accomplishes extremely violent actions. (something which would reveal to the men the existence of the Idol)
Awakening: The Larva Interna
When a Oujelita starts to take his first steps toward ascension he starts to perceive an impulse toward the violence. It is not something else but his Larva Interna, that causes his change, and will guide it by the road.
Arete: The Larva Interna
When an Oujelita has Arete 5, his Larva Interna returns to be reborn (by means of a ritual that the Supreme Sacerdo alone knows to accomplish) and starts to communicate with him by means of messages that only the Oscurista can understand .
Tugej today is afraid. It has had to flee its house twice before, so now it uses Oscurismo to hide the Oscuristas. To the Oujelitas, Oscurismo is a sign that their god is alive.
Avatar: The Larva Interna
The Oujelitas upon Awakening, sacrifice themselves to Violence. The avatar of a Oujelita is marked by a zeal for violence.
Destiny: The Brand
The Oujelitas who have been selected for a high future are labeled by Tugej; between its breed it chooses their chosen ones, thus his future will be very high and violent.
Dream: The Dream
Tugej communicates with them through impulses that the Oujelitas do not contain, thus Tugej teaches them to be better.
Node: The Altair
There are places that are converted into perfect places for the violence, due to the great quantity of unleashed violence already there. Thus large quantities of residue are formed there.
The Summo Sacerdo is the will of Tugej, the Idol as it exists in the land of the living. Though never discussed, it is as adored, observed and venerated as the Idol itself.
The Sinistra Capita
About Supreme Sacerdo there are other men who form the Sinistra Capita. They are the incarnations of the three powers of the Butterfly.
Vera Caecus (the Blind), continues on the road of truth. His words are rarely understood by all, but perhaps they are not meant to be understood. He is the truth of Tugej.
Iluminati (the Deaf) walks down the road of action and nothing can be interposed in his way. When he says something one must to accomplish it. He is the action of Tugej.
The actions Mortus (the Mute) can never be discussed. His knowledge is that of the Idol, and knows all what Tugej knows. When he talks to you, always listen. He is the knowledge of Tugej.
Tertius Sacerdus
The Tertius Sacerdo is the magician who governs the mundane power of the Order. All the possessions of the Order are under his supervision. Normally there is one though lately there have been two. The Tertius Sacerdo s a man of great power, and acts as the Judge when the Summo Sacerdo is not available.
Sacerdos
These are all the magicians who have begun to walk the road of the Three Headed Butterfly.
Initiates of the Three
The Awakened apprentices of the Order, they have not yet proved themselves worthy to be considered Oscuristas.
Silent
The Silent are Unawakened members who are highly valued for their actions and conduct.
Neophytes
They are everyone else who worship Tugej.
The Oscurista creates a wax base, giving to it his own form. The Imitator is a being capable of multiple functions, and is apparently alive. Normally after finishing the execution time, it is melted slightly, thus losing the aspect.
It is possible to make an Imitator of another person, if there is a connection with that person in the moment of the execution of the effect.
It is possible for the Oscurista to add a Spirit 3 effect to thus bind the dead to the physical form of the Imitator, either a Drone or even a true Wraith. For Drone, the previous rules apply but a Wraith is capable of any action that it is normally capable of. To bind a wraith the Imitator, either the Wraith has to be willing or the mage must defeat the wraith in a contest with his Arete rating vs. the Wraith's Embody.