User blog:NyricTheDeceiver/The Shadows of the Veil (Mage: The Awakening)

Chapter 1:
As children, we are taught that lying is bad, and you shouldn't do it. Over time, more and more forms of lies become known to us as adults: polite lies, bold-faced lies, half-truths, lying by omission and so on. If you do lie, you're a terrible person and you should feel guilty for lying. You just took away another human's right to the truth, you monster! Right? Wrong, lies can be used to achieve great things, goals that the scope of which most wouldn't understand. These are noble lies, the lies that I and my ilk are skilled in.

I stood towering over my seated associate from the Silver Ladder who went by the name Reed Simmons, a shadow name no doubt. He sat in a vinage leather chair his legs crossed, the left one neatly over the other, tapping his fingers on the armrest. It was without saying that he was of the same Path as I, a Warlock, a Mastigos mage.

My name is Matthias Wright (a false name, of course; Keeping my real name private is of top priority to me), my shadow name is Lucifer, a Cultor of the Guardians of the Veil. If you're reading this codex, you've either forcibly broken the ward that would have irrevocably shattered your mind or you're a friend of mine.