There are a lot of things in this
world that should have been, but never were. The Selenim
sourcebook for Chaosium's Nephilim
was one of them. Granted, there are a lot more important
events I would like to see come to pass in this world
before the completion of this book, but I put a fair
amount of effort over two years into shaping it up for
publication. After being shelved, it sat fallow on my
hard drive for another couple of years before I got a new
computer and saved various files and folders to floppy
disks with every intention of transfering them over to
the new hard drive. Regrettably, the Selenim files didn't
make the first round of transfers. I recently dug out the
floppy and tried to open it up, only to find that the
disk was now unreadable. Still, I've found hardcopy
printouts of all the work I did, and a few other files
that existed elsewhere. What you see below constitutes
the greater body of the latter.
Kitab es-Selenimi I was rather
pleased with this history of the Selenim when I wrote it
some years ago, and I'm still quite proud of it. I aimed
to fill in and smooth over some of the cracks and seams
from the Nephilim history that appeared in assorted books
and other writers' notes, and, by and large, I feel that
it came together rather well. Inexplicably, I neglected
to incorporate Arcanum XIII into the history in any
meaningful way. I've been meaning to remedy this
oversight for some time now, but the hopeful are advised
against holding their breath.
Selenim FAQ Certain questions
cropped up time and again on the Nephilim
discussion list, so over time I put together this list of
the most popular questions with my most consistent
answers. Certain parts may seem contradictory (witness
the description of Selenim occult sciences in different
places), the result of cobbling a single document
together from different sources. Recently, I came up with
even more to add, so look for a few changes soon.
Selenim Character Creation Adapted from a
translation of the original MultiSim book, these rules
outline the creation of a Selenim character from a
pre-existing Nephilim character. There are a few notable
twists that I put on the rules, but nothing too
spectacular. Oh, and you'll still need actual rules for
the occult sciences if you really want to put them into
play.
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