Editing Mage: the Awakening: Twenty-Five Lighters (section)

==Local Rumors and Legends==
* A suspected serial killer is stalking the Sharpstown and Neartown areas, with police blaming four ritualistic murders on the killer over the last three months based on the Roman numeral "IX" branded on the back of the victims' necks. So far the victims were all last seen within a few blocks of either the Botanica Eleggua yerberia or the Magick Cauldron pagan supply store.
* Black Fist, the flamboyant Solitary mage formerly associated with the Fiery Analemma cabal, has been spreading whispers to the effect that the Arrows are preparing to emerge from seclusion.
* Younger mages in Southeast Houston report signs of a massive abrasion of the Gauntlet near Ellington Airport, the airfield formerly used by the US Air Force.
* Majority stockholder and AZB chairman Aydin Arvin has gone into hiding days after federal agents raided the AZB home office. Financial analysts predict that the real estate magnate Roderick Saxon will acquire all AZB assets if the company goes into bankruptcy. AZB held the leases on hundreds of acres of retail and residential properties in Pasadena, South Houston, Downtown and the Medical Center.
* Copies of the mysterious recording known as the '''Hildebrandt Tape''' are circulating through the Houston underground. Some report that the last three owners of the Tape have either been committed or have attempted suicide.
* Horakhty, the shadowy leader of the Order of the Bennu cabal, is quietly searching for a lost text known as the '''Book of the Luminous Ib'''. Some report that the Order will pay as much as twenty pawns of Tass for the text.
* Graffiti defacing a mural on the University of St. Thomas campus: "''KADMON BECOMES/OMNIA MUTANTUR/NIHIL INTERIT''." Concerned that this may mark the return of the Mad sorcerer Kadmon (whom the Council insisted had been destroyed in the series of magical battles of the nights following the Storm), Heirarch Gavriel has ordered Sentinel Marian Made to investigate, with the authority to "deputize" any mages as she sees fit.