Trinity

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The Trinity Continuum, once known as the Æon Continuum before trademark infringements got called up and forced the name change, is a set of three interlinked settings done by White Wolf early into its life, after its Old World of Darkness meta-setting took off.

It's a meta-setting divided into three, each based on different parts of humanity's "life cycle" and released going backwards - so from the oldest point to the earliest. Got cancelled whilst it was only partly developed, but Onyx Path purchased the rights in 2012 and began rebooting the line, starting development with Aberrant in March 2018 instead of following the "normal" release order.

Aeon/Trinity

The namesake setting, a post-apocalyptic Earth in which an incredibly advanced human civilization was devastated when the Aberrants, mutant super-humans enhanced with quantum-manipulating powers, turned on humanity and destroyed it in the Aeon War. Human players are psychics, awakened with specialized technology to destroy the remaining Aberrants and help fully restore humanity. Also, there's a meta-plot about a coming alien invasion.

Aberrant

Humanity during the "Golden Age" before the Aeon War. Quantum-empowered superhumans called Novas have begun to arise and are seemingly leading humanity towards a new future. Since Trinity came first, you know what's really going to happen, right? The Novas who really mutate are called "Aberrants", after all. Essentially a grimdark superhero RPG.

White Wolf at this time was notorious for its writers having issues, which tended to creep into the metaplot, and Aberrant was a particularly bad example. Remember that the chief writer-guy was a rather disgruntled gay man, and then take a look at how many of the gay male novas tend to be the powerhouses, and how the hetero-normative NPCs tend to be dumb, ugly creeps. Hell, let's look at the fact that the setting's version of Magneto, Divis Mal, is gay, the most powerful nova in the world, an enlightened visionary whose schemes the PCs are powerless to stop, in a loving relationship with a super-attractive, only-less-superpowered-by-comparison fellow nova, and pretty much completely and utterly right, since it's humanity who starts the Aeon War by secretly sterilizing Novas en-masse, provoking them into attacking to defend themselves. At one point the writer outright said that the name of the gameline referred to Divis Mal personally. Onyx Path is starting their reboot here instead of Trinity; given the current year you can probably expect more of the same.

Adventure!

The final setting released, and the earliest on the point. Glorious pulp age misadventures with talking gorillas, lost cities, Nazi superweapons, two-fisted gadgeteers, and all that good stuff.

Roleplaying games made by White Wolf
Exalted - Human Occupied Landfill - Scarred Lands - Scion - Trinity World of Darkness - World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game