Tower of Al Durab

The Tower of Al Durab is more legend than reality in the World of Darkness, and that is just as the Awakened who study there prefer it. The people of Jordan occasionally talk of seeing the Tower just before a blistering sand storm tears their sight away, often these sand storms seem to appear from nowhere, leaving the people who have seen the Tower buried under tons of sand, or miles away from where they thought they were.

The Tower holds a powerful cabal of vaguely Hermetic mages, or, more precisely, followers of the Kabbalah - mages named for the powerful tomes they study and revere as the one truth. This cabal has little to do with the outside world, primarily because they suffer from a odd form of insanity. The mages of Al Durab have dedicated themselves to understanding the Kabbalah, completely ignoring the world beyond their Chantry's walls.

Nodes

There are several Nodes of the Tower of Al Durab in places around the world, but more are in the Middle East. Mages familiar with the bygone Ahl-i-Batin may speculate that remains of the Web of Faith feed the Tower. Places where the Israeli faith is strongest normally hold Nodes to the Tower of Al Durab. Some even claim that a node of the Chantry exists in Eden.

The Horizon Realm

The Tower's Realm is a massive sprawling library dedicated to the Kabbalah. The only inhabitants of this Realm are the mages themselves and at least 30 golems that defend the library from intruders and deliver parchments for research to the different mages upon their requests. No sound above a whisper is ever heard in the Horizon Realm. No one outside the Chantry is ever willingly permitted into the Library. There are no exceptions.

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