num_pages: 50
description: Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras reveals the world throughout its long and storied past.Through sixteen eras, you’ll learn the secret history of the world, from the flame-lit tales of the Neolithic to the drug-fueled rebellion of the 1970s. Delve into the past, and learn that the Chronicles of Darkness began long before the modern nights.Dark Eras: Beneath the SkinThere is a face beneath this mask, but it isn’t me. I’m no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.—Alan Moore, V for VendettaAhuitzotl sits on the throne at the height of the Aztec Empire, overseeing his sorcerer-priests' sacrifices and the endless flower wars his jaguar and eagle warriors carry out in his name to keep the altars well-supplied with victims. The gears of the Aztec Empire turn smoothly and inexorably, but not everything is what it pretends to be. Skinchangers take the shapes of animals to run the wilds or bring down human prey, the Unchained cobble together identities from stolen lives, and stranger things still lurk in the deserts and jungles beyond the walls of Tenochtitlan.This is a single chapter from the larger work, Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras. Now available on its own in PDF and Softcover formats.Also available now for Dark Eras:Tales of the Dark ErasAs a companion to Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras the Tales of the Dark Eras anthology reveals secrets of the mystics, whispers rumors of the dead, and shines a light into the darkest corners of the world.This collection includes historical stories based within the shadowed past of Vampire: the Requiem, Mage: the Awakening, Werewolf: the Forsaken,Changeling: the Lost, and other Chronicles of Darkness settings.
language: English
title: Dark Eras: Beneath the Skin
publisher: Onyx Path Publishing