Solium Speculorum
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Player Characters
London, England
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During the Reign of Queen Victoria
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| Population: 5,633,806 (1896) |
The City
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |
- La Maupin, Moros Adamantine Arrow suffragette
- Lagnaippe, Moros Guardians of the Veil queen of the gamblers
- Aesculapius, Thyrsus Mysterium physician
- Edward Thackery, 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.
Victorian London
- Money in Victorian London, a quick primer to how money works in the Victorian British Empire.
- London Unveiled: Victorian Era, detailing the Awakened of Victorian London
Noteworthy Locales
- The Low Tide: a Limehouse gambling den, 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.
- 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.
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 Downtime Conditions: For characters with focused downtime interests.
- WoD Grief Conditions: For characters going through the stages of grieving.
- 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).
