Unknown Armies NPC - O'Saa the Yellow Mage

Based on the character of the same name from Fear and Hunger 2: Termina.

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Baron Samedi and Papa Gede. Kali and Shiva and Yama. Edward Teller and J. Robert Oppenheimer. The Gods of Death. The Destroyers of Worlds. Every pantheon has ‘em, but there’s no ascended archetype to match. Someone should work on that.

O’saa is a Yellow Mage, a member of a decentralized avatar cult created by an unknown Motumancer who wanted to uplift the archetype of the Destroyer to the Statosphere. You get this type of Motumancer singularity sometimes - guy spends a major charge to inspire other flagburners to do something. They flame out fast, because by definition they can’t constructively participate in a social movement without losing their powers. Yellow Mages get around it by being an antisocial pyramid scheme. It never rises to a real community, just a shared bad idea that the “members” pursue for personal reasons. Everyone wants to be the Destroyer.

Nobody knows why they're called Yellow Mages. Whatever meaning the name had to the original founder of the sect has been erased by time and distance.