You’ve been initiated and trained in two different Awakened groups. Perhaps you were a Verbena who gravitated toward the Virtual Adepts, or a Man in Black who sought refuge among the Templars. Whatever your history and affiliations might be, you’re intimately familiar with both groups, have connections (not nec­ essarily friends) in both groups, and may use and understand the practices, tools and beliefs (in short, the focus) of either group.

Rules-wise, your mage enjoys the benefits of each affilia­ tion. If he’s a former Technocrat who went over to the mystic side, he can still use technomagick while transcending the usual Technocratic bans regarding Arete and focus. When raising a Sphere, your character gets to use the Affinity Sphere rate for one Sphere per group. His former associates probably don’t view him very favorably, though, unless he “cross-trained” within friendly groups, like a Dreamspeaker who went Ecstatic or a Hermetic who joined the Children of Knowledge.

For additional details about this subject, see Chapter

Three’s Focus FAQ, p. 174.