This is the 1st edition core book for Immortal The Invisible War. From the back cover: "Even legends cannot sleep forever. You were there... When the Sanguinary fled the crucible... When the Sphinx was not stone but flesh... When Paris slew Achilles before Troy... When Arthur wept, betrayed... You Knew... The force that compelled Jack's knife in London... The painter, Adolph, who set out to "purify" the world... The sniper whose bullet claimed Kennedy's life in Dallas... Then you took a long walk into forgetfulness... and things have only gotten worse. It's wake up time. The age of innocence is ended. Immortal personas everywhere are waking up to a new experience in role playing unprecedented in any previous gaming system. Merlin, Hercules, Marilyn Monroe, these and many other figures of legend are very much alive...influencing affairs in the mortal Habitat just as they have for millennia past. YOU are the fabric of legend. Now the time has come to shed mortal illusion and resume your place in Perpetual Society to awake and rediscover your secrets of your own fantastic past."