In modern-day Sweden, someone is awakening to True Magick—the ability to reshape reality itself through pure force of belief. Multiple factions want that person, because a secret war has been waged for decades over human consensus itself: the collective agreement about what is real, which can be rewritten by those with sufficient power. World of Darkness Preludes: Vampire and Mage includes Mage: The Ascension: Refuge, a narrative game written by Karin Tidbeck, set against Sweden's contemporary social and political landscape.