Beneath the Skin (Skinchangers and Demon)
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Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras reveals the world throughout its long and storied past.
Through sixteen eras¸ you'll learn the secret history of the world¸ from the flame-lit tales of the Neolithic to the drug-fueled rebellion of the 1970s. Delve into the past¸ and learn that the Chronicles of Darkness began long before the modern nights.
Dark Eras: Beneath the SkinThere is a face beneath this mask¸ but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it¸ or the bones beneath that.
-Alan Moore¸ V for Vendetta
Ahuitzotl sits on the throne at the height of the Aztec Empire¸ overseeing his sorcerer-priests ' sacrifices and the endless flower wars his jaguar and eagle warriors carry out in his name to keep the altars well-supplied with victims. The gears of the Aztec Empire turn smoothly and inexorably¸ but not everything is what it pretends to be. Skinchangers take the shapes of animals to run the wilds or bring down human prey¸ the Unchained cobble together identities from stolen lives¸ and stranger things still lurk in the deserts and jungles beyond the walls of Tenochtitlan.
This is a single chapter from the larger work¸ Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras. Now available on its own in PDF and Softcover formats.
Also available now for Dark Eras:
Tales of the Dark Eras
As a companion to Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras the Tales of the Dark Eras anthology reveals secrets of the mystics¸ whispers rumors of the dead¸ and shines a light into the darkest corners of the world.
This collection includes historical stories based within the shadowed past of Vampire: the Requiem¸ Mage: the Awakening¸ Werewolf: the Forsaken¸Changeling: the Lost¸ and other Chronicles of Darkness settings.