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THE COVENANT

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(REDITS Written and Designed by: Matt Forbeck

Editing: Patrick Kapera Cover: Cris Dornaus

Cover Background: Zeke Sparkes Interior Art: Julian Aguilera, Mike Hawthorne, and Paul H. Way

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Special Thanks to: Amber Buchheit, Martin Forbeck, Leticia Hayler, Ann Kolinsky, Ray Lau, Dave Seay, Kevin Smith (for Dogma), Maureen Yates, John Zinser, and John and Mary Zinser.

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Dedicated to: Sister Cabrini, Father Steve Zwettler, Sister Veronica, Sister Digna, Sister Mary Victoria, Sister Mary Dennis, Father Lange, and all the other Catholics that have made a difference in my life.

AEG would like to offer a hearty thanks to Matt Forbeck for all his hard work on this product, and for dreaming up the Brave New World line in the first place.

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TABLE Of CONTENTS ON THE SIDE Of RIGHT .................. 4 WORLD WIDE (OVENANT .............. 44 THE GUIDE'S HANDBOOK .., ...... .101 Welcome ......................... .5 The Great Mistake

of '89 ........... ....... .......... 5 My Mission Here ........... .7

IN THE 8E6INNIN6 .......................... 8 The Original Covenant..9 The Order of the

Covenant .................... 9 We All Have

Our Crosses .............. 11 The Covenant

is Formed .. ................ 14

JOINING THE (OVENANT ................ 16 It's an Exclusive Club .. 17 The Long, Hard Road .. 17 The Grace of God ... ..... 18 Delta-Corne-Lately ...... 19

OUR WORK .1111 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 20 We're on a

Mission from God .... 21 Our Duty ........................ 22 Rail Against

the Night.. .................. 23 The Darker Side ........... .28

MYSTERIOUS WAYS ...................... .30 Welcome to the Club .... 31 The Delta

Armageddon ............ 34

AMERIUN GOTHIL .................... .36 The Way It

Used to Be ............... .37 The Covenant

in the 20th Century .... 38 The Schism .................... 39 The Covenant in

America Today ....... .40

God Is Everywhere ..... .45 Asia ......... ....... ................ 45 (HAPTER TWO: Australia ... .................... .47 THE TRUTH Of THE MATTER ..102 Africa ............................. .47 Time to Be Good! .. ... ... 103 Europe ............................ 47 The Scandal ............. ... 103 The Middle East.. ......... .50 North America .............. 52

Sinning ........................ 104 Covenant Leaders ...... 105

South and Central Vampires ...................... 106 America ................ .. ... .53 Deaders ......... ............. .. 106

fOES Of RIGHTEOUSNESS ............ ..54 Werebeasts .................. 106 Demons ... ..................... l08

The Ultimate Evil... ....... 55 Possessions and Vampires ....................... .55 Exorcisms ................ 109 Deaders .......................... 56 Werebeasts .................... 57 Bargainers ...................... 57

Working with the Enemy ................ l09

Demons .......................... 58 fOR GOODNESS SAKE: Possessions ................... .59 A (OVENANT ADVENTURE ...... 110

(HAPTER ONE: THE AUTHOR'S AHERWORD ...... ..124 (OVENANT HEROES .................. 62 You Can Take the Kid

Holy Heroes! ................ 63 Out of the School....125 Do You Hear Religion and

the Call? ...... .............. 63 Roleplaying ............ 126 Joining the Covenant .. 64 Heroes of

Another God ............ 66 Covenant

Martial Arts .............. 66 Dressing the Part .......... 66 Weapons ........................ 66 Covenant Heroes ......... .74 Roman Catholic

Basics ............ .............. 76 Covenant Clergy .......... 76 The Sacraments ............ 78 The Hierarchy .............. 80 Covenant Orders .... ...... 80 Powers ............................ 82 Clerical Powers ............ 83 Covenant Powers .......... 87 Being Good .................... 94

ARCHETYPES ................................ 95

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WILCOMI My dear friends, welcome. Although

I may not know you personally at the moment, we are all children of God and as members of the Covenant, ~e are specially chosen emissaries of His word. With that much in common I believe that we will be friends if ~ver we do meet.

AN INTRODUCTION My name is Father Paul Joeson.

I'm a priest in Holy Roman Catholic Church, and-just like you-I'm a member of that legendary order of the faithful known as the Covenant.

I was born in Brighton, Michigan, back in 1958, right in the middle of the Baby Boom generation. I grew up in a strictly Catholic home, and I was raised by my parents Jim and Mary Joeson, along with my brother Luke and my sister Bernadette.

I had a happy childhood. I attended 12 years of Catholic school and served as an altar boy for several of those. When it came time to go to college, I decided to go to Marquette University in Milwaukee. After a couple years learr~ing under the watchful eyes of my JesUIt professors, I decided that the priesthood was for me, so I applied to the Holy Name Seminary near Madison, Wisconsin, and was accepted.

Soon after I got out of the seminary, I was assigned to St. Patrick's Cathedral in Crescent City. It was a real honor to be one of the associates at the newest cathedral in America, and I quickly found that the post was everything I could have hoped for-and quite a bit more.

Our parishioners had a palpable hunger for the grace of God, and I was happy to be able to help them find it. Right from the moment I first set foot in St. Patrick's, I knew that I had made the right decision in heeding the Lord's call to the vocation of the priesthood.

Some time after that, though, I was given some small cause to regret it.

1"1 GRIAT MISTAKI Of '89 I was in Atlanta for a conference of

Catholic priests when the Soviets discovered that Delta Prime unit in the then-glowing ruins of Chernobyl. Fortunately, the hotel in which we were meeting was on the outskirts of town, miles away from ground zero.

I remember that day better than just about any other in my life. It was a fateful time for myself, my country, and my calling.

We only had about 25 minutes of warning before the bombs fell on the city. There was really no time to get away, but that didn't stop people from trying. The streets were clogged with cars, bikes, motorcycles-any kind of conveyance to get people as far away from downtown Atlanta as possible.

Even the streets were jammed, packed with people running toward a safety they knew in their hearts they would never reach. Women were screaming. Children were crying everywhere. The young and the old were being trampled underfoot.

They were all dead. They knew it. We-the priests who had gathered

for a closing mass in St. Michael's, ending the conference-knew it too. But we were prepared to deal with the oncoming darkness.

Well, most of us were ready. Even priests are only human, after all.

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AWAITING ARMAGfDDON Of course, not everyone in the city

was ready to trample each other to get to safety. Some realized the how fruitless such an effort was bound to be, and in their moment of need, they turned to the church.

Within minutes, the confessionals were clogged to overflowing, and every available priest was hearing confessions in the pews. People spoke openly, not caring who could hear them now. And then they begged for forgiveness and wept without shame.

When the bombs actually hit, we were still all ministering to our flock. Bishop Herndon was taking the extremely unorthodox action of administering a group version of extreme unction to everyone in the building when all Hell broke loose.

THf INDTIMf AND BfYOND To be honest with you, I don't

remember a whole lot of what happened next. It's all pretty much a blur of heat and shock and action.

I was forgiving the sins of a 30-year­old mother of three when suddenly it seemed like the world was turned inside out. When I regained my senses, I found myself buried under the rubble of the church's vaulted ceiling.

In some kind of miracle-and I honestly do believe it as such-the peak of the ceiling actually managed to survive the fall to the ceiling. I've never been so happy about flying buttresses in my entire life.

The reinforced roof actually managed to protect dozens of us from being crushed by the rest of the building as it collapsed in on itself from the force of the bombs'

shockwave. Nearly 100 of us survived those first few moments. Most importantly, there were 40 of us who did more than survive.

BUSSINGS fROM ABOn We were all blessed to have lived

through that experience. But some of us were more blessed than others.

Forty of us became deltas on that day. To this date, it's the largest mass awakening that the Church is aware of.

That's top secret, of course, as is much of the information I'm going to give you in this primer. Now that you're a part of the Covenant, however, you have a right to know all of this. More than that, you need to know.

As the dust settled, we realized what had happened to some of us. I first figured it out myself as I was struggling to pull a column of stone off of the woman whose confession I'd been hearing just bare minutes before.

I prayed to God to give me the strength to move the stone from this woman, and miraculously it was granted to me. I was able to shift the column enough to shove it off of her, freeing her trapped legs. Then, the power of God still coursing through me, I put my hands on her wounds and prayed with all my might for God in His infinite wisdom to let this mother live.

And my prayer was answered. All around me, I saw similar things

happening as priest after priest made true contact with the power of God and channeled it through his mortal form to lend selfless aid to those suffering around him. Right away, I knew that we'd been given the power of the Covenant.

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