The Tranquil

Mage Training

In cases where the enchanters of a Circle feel a particular candidate will not ever be ready to face the Harrowing, or if a candidate proves otherwise unworthy before the rite, the only other option is the Rite of Tranquility, which permanently severs an apprentice’s connection to the Fade in order to protect all concerned.

Culture

Culture and cultural heritage

The Tranquil are generally in charge of working with lyrium and making enchanted items. They also trade in such items with outsiders. The calm face of the Tranquil is the face of the Circle known to many outside its ranks.

Shared customary codes and values

Their brand renders them immune to the possibility of demonic possession, with the side effect that subject can no longer dream or experience emotions. True to their name, the Tranquil exist in a state of peace and calm, untouched by feeling. They have simple, theoretically untroubled lives. Most prefer to keep to themselves.

Common Customs, traditions and rituals

Some apprentices also request to be made Tranquil, most often because they fear either their own power or the Harrowing itself.

Coming of Age Rites

As part of the ritual, a magical lyrium brand is inscribed on the candidate’s forehead, severing the mage’s ties with the Fade.

Common Taboos

Apostates have no Tranquil and it is the threat of this and other such “precautions” by the templars which drive many to flee the Chantry Circles. More than one willful apprentice became an apostate after discovering they were selected to become Tranquil.

Major organizations

• Circle of Magi 

Parent ethnicities

• Circle Mage

Diverged ethnicities

• Drunari Ben-Hassrath

Related Organizations

• Formari
• The Circle of Magi