Solium Speculorum

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Player Characters

London, England

During the Reign of Queen Victoria

Population: 5,633,806 (1896)

The City

Central London, based around the "Square Mile" that is the old original walled city of London.

Bloomsbury • Charing Cross • Covent Garden • The Docks & Wapping • Holborn • The Square Mile • St. Giles

The West End

Formerly swathes of farmland, the West End is now home to many grand houses and sections of new city life.

Bayswater • Belgravia • Brompton & Chelsea • Fulham • Hammersmith • Kensal Green • Kensington • Marylebone • Mayfair • Notting Hill • Paddington • Pimlico • St. James (Clubland) • St. Johns Wood • St. Pancras • Westminster

The Hills

The high ridge north of old London. Formerly agricultural, but the city has grown over and swallowed up the old farms into new metropolitan areas.

Former Villages • Islington • Hampstead • Highbury • Highgate • Holloway

The East End

Poverty and crime are a way of life in the East End. Home to the desperate, as well as those immigrants who rarely find a welcome anywhere else in the city.

Limehouse & the Isle of Dogs • Mile End & Stepney • Whitechapel

The Southwark

The southern bank of the Thames, originally where the rich escaped the city. Now it is home to rookeries and poverty, and those industries not tolerated in finer parts of the city.

Battersea & Clampham • Bermondsey • Deptford & Greenwich • Lambeth • Peckham • Putney • Rotherhithe

Mage Awakening PC Template

• La Maupin, Moros Adamantine Arrow suffragette
• Lagnaippe, Obrimos Guardians of the Veil queen of the gamblers
• Aesculapius, Thyrsus Mysterium physician
• Oberon, Acanthus Guardians of the Veil natural history curator
• Iblis, Mastigos Mysterium gem merchant and lapidary

Storyteller Characters

• The Maidstone Three: A trio of mages originally from Maidstone, in Kent, who are now all in London. Each of them has at least one apprentice.

Chronicle Resources

• Solium Speculorum Chronicle Stats, a compilation of the Attributes, Skills and Arcana ratings of the PCs in the chronicle, used to determine relative importance of focus areas to the group.
• Solium Speculorum Starting Obsessions: A collection of starting Obsessions for player characters.

Victorian London

• Money in Victorian London, a quick primer to how money works in the Victorian British Empire.
• Metropolitan Police in Victorian London: A look at the Metropolitan Police, as established by Sir Robert Peele (in 1829).

Awakened London

• London Unveiled: Victorian Era, detailing the Awakened of Victorian London

Noteworthy Locales

• The Low Tide: A Limehouse gambling den located just north of where West India Dock Road and Commercial Road East meet, one of the "copper hells" frequented by the lower classes. Dice and card games abound, as does the occasional bare-knuckles bout. Owned by Lagnaippe.
• Vicrum's Townhouse: A Limehouse townhouse, located in a good middle-class neighborhood at the upper edges of Limehouse, close to Vicrum's work offices along West India Dock Road, in south Limehouse.
• Dr. Goddard's Surgery: The resident and office of Whitechapel physician Dr. Francis Goddard. Though he has space for visiting patients, he also makes extensive house calls throughout Whitechapel.
• Sutton Gardens: A Holborn house owned by the Sutton Baronetcy of Norwood Park, Sutton Gardens is one of several grand townhouses arrayed around Russell Square. La Maupin lives there.
• Addington Terraces: The Brompton row of houses in which Edward Thackery, a curator at the nearby Natural History Museum dwells. It is a small dwelling, the sort of thing that a widower on his salary might afford.

Reference

• Victorian London: The ultimate resource for Victorian London.
• Victorian Cost of Living: A guide to weekly and yearly expenditures in Victorian England.
• Servant Hierarcy:, discussing the roles of various servants of household

Merits

• Victorian Resources Merit: The Resources Merit, as presented for Victorian chronicles.

House Rules

• WoD Merits: Current Roster: Library (• - •••) and Quick Healer (•• or ••••)
• WoD Health Levels: House rule regarding World of Darkness Health Trait.
• Natural Healing: Recovery from injuries in the World of Darkness, including information on medical care. Includes the Quick Healer Merit.
• WoD Research: System for researching the lore of the World of Darkness.
• WoD Conditions: Conditions for the World of Darkness.
• WoD Tilts: Tilts for the World of Darkness.
• CoD Urban District Traits: The six Traits associated with neighborhoods in Chronicle of Darkness cities.
• Legacies for Mage 2nd: A set of homebrew Legacies to tide us over until we get official versions (if we ever do).