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<div style="color:#b8c6d1; font-size:.90em; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:.20em; text-transform:uppercase;">A World of Darkness beneath Madison, Wisconsin</div>
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Four lakes hold the city like dark mirrors. Beneath the Capitol, stolen currents gather around a wounded Node. Old bargains shape neighborhoods, institutions, and lives. Madison looks ordinary from the highway. It has worked very hard to keep it that way.
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Madtown by Night is undergoing a major continuity and presentation overhaul. Revised canon, legacy material, and chronicle-specific material may currently appear beside one another. Check each page's status notice before treating it as current setting canon. See [[Madtown by Night:Canon and Continuity|Canon and Continuity]] for details.
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<div style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size:1.35em; font-weight:bold;">New to Madtown</div>
<p>Learn what the setting is, what makes Madison dangerous, and where to begin without reading the entire archive.</p>
'''[[Madtown by Night:Start Here|Start Here]]'''
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<p>Find event information, player guidance, pre-generated characters, and handouts for this year's games.</p>
'''[[Gen Con 2026|Convention Hub]]''' · [[Pre Generated Characters|Characters]]
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<p>Explore player-safe history, factions, places, and character resources. Pages containing hidden information are marked.</p>
'''[[Player Guide|Player Guide]]''' · [[Chronicles|Chronicles]]
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<p>Enter the deeper archive of hidden histories, character agendas, chronicle tools, and unresolved threats.</p>
'''[[Storyteller Portal|Storyteller Portal]]''' <span style="color:#765;">(spoilers)</span>
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<div style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size:2em; color:#202a32;">Welcome to Madison</div>
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Madtown by Night is an unofficial fan setting for the classic World of Darkness. It takes the familiar streets, institutions, conflicts, and history of Madison, Wisconsin, then reveals the pressure beneath them. Mages contest the shape of reality. Kindred cultivate territory and influence. Garou defend sacred relationships already damaged by settlement and development. Changelings preserve wonder in a city that forgets faster every year. Mortals build lives inside struggles they rarely recognize.
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At the center stands the [[Capitol Node]], a powerful but wounded concentration of older spiritual currents. Beyond the mortal city waits [[New Avalon]], the beautiful and coercive Horizon Realm built through the long designs of [[Jay Dee]]. Madison is not the center of creation. It is something more intimate and perhaps more dangerous: a place where ambitious people learned how to make a city perform magick.
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<div style="margin-top:8px; line-height:1.55;">Who benefits from the way Madison works, who pays the hidden cost, and what happens when the machinery begins to fail?</div>
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[[Madison|Madison Overview]]<br>
[[Madtown World of Darkness Timeline|History and Timeline]]<br>
[[Neighborhoods of Madison|Neighborhoods]]<br>
[[Supernatural Factions of Madison|Supernatural Factions]]<br>
[[Capitol Node]]<br>
[[New Avalon]]<br>
[[Jay Dee]]<br>
[[Characters|People of Madtown]]<br>
[[Chronicles]]<br>
[[Special:AllPages|Complete Page Index]]
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<div style="flex:1 1 180px; min-width:170px; padding:17px; background:#ece8df; border-bottom:4px solid #7a5a35;">'''[[Mages of Madtown|Awakened]]'''<br><span style="font-size:.92em;">Traditions, technomancers, Orphans, and the struggle over reality.</span></div>
<div style="flex:1 1 180px; min-width:170px; padding:17px; background:#eee5e6; border-bottom:4px solid #782936;">'''[[Vampires of Madison|Kindred]]'''<br><span style="font-size:.92em;">Predators, courts, feeding grounds, debts, and institutional power.</span></div>
<div style="flex:1 1 180px; min-width:170px; padding:17px; background:#e5ece8; border-bottom:4px solid #345b49;">'''[[Garou of Madison|Garou and Fera]]'''<br><span style="font-size:.92em;">Sacred places, damaged spirit paths, territory, and survival.</span></div>
<div style="flex:1 1 180px; min-width:170px; padding:17px; background:#e9e6ef; border-bottom:4px solid #5a4775;">'''[[Fae of Madison|Changelings]]'''<br><span style="font-size:.92em;">Dreams, memory, freeholds, beauty, and the slow pressure of Banality.</span></div>
<div style="flex:1 1 180px; min-width:170px; padding:17px; background:#e4e9ec; border-bottom:4px solid #3f5668;">'''[[Mortal Madison|Mortals]]'''<br><span style="font-size:.92em;">Institutions, communities, investigators, hunters, and ordinary courage.</span></div>
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| '''Founding Madison'''
| Jay Dee adopts the life of James Duane Doty and begins reshaping the isthmus as a civic and Hermetic working.
| [[Founding of Madison]] · [[Jay Dee]]
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| '''1985'''
| Murders, broken treaties, and factional realignment reveal how fragile the supernatural peace has become.
| [[Madtown by Night 1985]]
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| '''2015'''
| New Avalon is rediscovered while Madison's mages inherit a city built upon concealed bargains and unfinished crimes.
| [[Madtown by Night 2015]]
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| '''Later Chronicles'''
| Campaign-specific futures, alternate continuities, and event material follow their own clearly marked canon.
| [[Chronicles]] · [[Gen Con Games]]
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<div style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size:1.45em; font-weight:bold;">Featured Mystery: The Black Archive</div>
<p style="line-height:1.55;">Jay Dee entered New Avalon's forbidden repository to confront the vampiric John Dee created by his divided Embrace. Neither returned. In 2015, the doors remain sealed, but something inside has begun requesting access to Madison.</p>
'''[[Black Archive|Read the public account]]'''
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<p style="line-height:1.55;">Pages are being reviewed for historical accuracy, World of Darkness compatibility, internal continuity, and usefulness at the table. Legacy ideas are preserved as sources, not automatically accepted as canon.</p>
[[Madtown by Night:Canon and Continuity|Canon Policy]] · [[Madtown by Night:Project Roadmap|Project Roadmap]] · [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]]
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Madtown by Night is an unofficial fan-created setting. World of Darkness, Mage: The Ascension, Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Changeling: The Dreaming, and related properties belong to their respective owners.<br>
'''Current reconstruction focus:''' Madtown by Night 2015 · '''Last major review:''' July 2026
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