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[[File:Scion.jpg|frame|Meet the children of the gods, someday to be gods unto themselves.]]
'''''Scion''''' is a tabletop roleplaying game series by [[White Wolf]], though not one that takes place in either of that company's trademark [[The World of Darkness|Worlds of Darkness]]. Instead the setting is the world as we know it, but there's one big difference: the various gods and goddesses of mankind's pagan pantheons really exist. [[All Myths Are True|The myths about them are true]], and they do walk the Earth in human guise, looking for men or women to mate with.
Player characters are the offspring of such unions, making them technically demigods, though in game terms they are referred to as Scions. They grew up unaware of their nonhuman heritage, until one day they received a visitation from their divine parent, and were told the truth about their origins.
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The rulebook includes six possible pantheons to choose from, using the time-tested White Wolf concept of [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|making members of different groups team up into a motley crew]]. They are: the Pesedjet (Egyptian), Dodekatheon (Greek), Aesir (Norse), Amatsukami (Japanese), Atzlanti (Aztec), and Loa (Voodoo). Game extensions include the Tuatha De Danann (Irish), the Celestial Bureaucracy (Chinese), and the Devas (Hindu) from ''Scion: Companion'', as well as nationalistic pantheons of America and the Allies in the same sourcebook for running games during [[World War Two]], and it's implied that yet more pantheons exist as well (indeed, there's a PDF covering the Yazata, the Persian pantheon (''Yazata: The Persian Gods''), as well as a supplement not available in English detailing the Gaulish pantheon; several fan-made pantheons can be found on the net as well). There is also the Atlantean pantheon, although they are canonically dead after having been corrupted by the Titans; details on the actual Pantheon and their Cosmology are in ''Demigod'', while the Pantheon's original Virtues (Duty, Intellect, Order, Piety) and Purview (Scire) are in the Scion ''Companion''.
Not to be confused with the [[Scion (comics)|comic book]], the [[Tomb Raider]] artifact, the character from ''[[Worm]]'', or the Toyota car.
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