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searchpartydnd · 7 years ago

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Final Session of Arc 1, Fate Touched

Session 10:

Inveni Domus, otherwise known as The Search Party, is a group of five skilled individuals who are dedicating their time to recovering the Novus Designs. These ancient artifacts were some of the first magical items ever created, only ever brought together once in recorded history by the circle of eight, the founding fathers of modern magic (ie Bigby, Volo, Modenkainen, Otiluke, etc.). Their main goal is to ultimately stop Lady Cecilia, a powerful entity who claims she is a god, from obtaining any of the designs to use for her own unpleasant purposes.

Current Party Members:

Avaar Acosta - High Elf Arcane Archer

Calladyne - Half-Elf Glamour Bard

Dixillion Ramada - Human Revenant Champion Fighter

Val Ganderstim - Aasimar Warlock of the Raven Queen

Veir Torunn - Dwarven Gunslinger

Artifacts recovered: 2

Turmoil on the Tundra

It’s the dead of winter up in the icy plains that encircle the peaks of Lyrengorn. The party had just recovered Cepheus, the Shroud of Tears, The Second. The clasp, created by the pre-ascended Raven Queen, is now worn by Val, who has just fucked up.

Like, big time.

The party had been in Bigby’s tower, stumbling through weird gravity, hacking desperately at enormous mimics, and getting stomped on by powerful constructs in bath houses. They eventually reached Bigby’s study, recovering the item as well as the wizard’s personal journal. Reading through, they had found more information about other Novus Designs and one was mentioned to be a bow.

Most party members immediately looked to Avaar, as she seemed a likely candidate to wield it. However, Avaar expressed her dislike to take on another magical item that was going to attract the attention of undesirables.

Avaar, prior to meeting the party, had willingly put on armor owned by a man named Lucidious. She soon found out, however, that she could not remove the armor and that the wearer had to obey all of their master’s commands. Lucidious turned out to be a massive evil dick and turned Avaar’s life into a living nightmare, forcing her to do terrible things, making her work for evil organizations.

Lucidious was killed in an attack, leaving Avaar free of him, but not of the armor. She came to Tal’dorei and joined up with Inveni Domus, eventually revealing to her friends the curse she had to live with. In an fight with Hags, Avaar was left greatly injured and mentally scarred, going into a nightmarish coma. Later, after she awoke and helped the party fend of Queen Cecilia’s lackeys, the armor began to break and chip away, finally getting fully removed when the party realized the magic binding it to Aavar was no longer there.

After Avaar had understandably voiced her distaste to take on another magical item, Val, on an rather unkind impulse, had commented “Well, you did wear that armor for a while,” implying that the arcane archer had also attracted unwanted attention and terrible things in her time enslaved to Lucidious.

Avaar just walked out. Dixie gave chase, while Calladyne followed more slowly. Val stayed behind to help Veir gather the items they needed before heading out into the Tundra. A blizzard was approaching on the horizon.

Calladyne reprimanded Val for the comment, pointing out how the 16-year-old had been rather unkind to the group and really needed to re-examine how she treated her friends.

Val, still desperate to apologize, ran off to find Dixie and Avaar. When she caught up, Avaar snapped at the Warlock.

“You don’t think I don’t know what I have done? I have to live with that guilt every day!” (I’m paraphrasing here) “Is this how you treat your friends? Grow up Val!”

The blizzard finally hit the party, making it hard to see. They discuss whether or not to take shelter in Bigby’s tower or make the trek back to Lyrengorn. They don’t get the chance to decide was a massive form dashed past, scooping up Val in the process.

Two Yetis, attracted by the very loud noises we were making, decided to pay us a visit.

For the first half of the battle, Val was basically a football, getting thrown about and used as a bludgeoning weapon.

They were able to defeat the Yetis due to a well timed Hypnotic Pattern by Calladyne.

Licking their wounds, the party headed back for Lyrengorn, trading their winter cloths for garments more suited for tropical weather. Avaar and Dixie head off together to find out more information from the Archdruid of the main temple in the sanctuary while Veir, Calladyne, and Val head off on seperate business.

Avaar and Dixie speak with the head ArchDruid, asking about the Winter Court in the Feywilde (of which they believe Calladyne was part of). Yura says it is a nasty topic, and that the queen is the nastiest topic of that court. The Archdruid describes her as cold and vicious, and that she is a dangerous entity to have as an enemy. Calladyne spends time at a shrine to the Archeart, a god that she once worshipped before she was taken into a Fey court. Unsure of her belief in gods, she asks for guidance of some kind. She feels nothing, but she later discovers a new line at the end of her newest song.

Val goes to inform the airship captain that they found what they were looking for, only to instead receive word that the archanist (Allura Vysoren) they were originally going to visit in Vasselheim had shown up in Whitestone. Lord and Lady De Rolo had informed her of the party’s activities and intent, causing the mage to contact the entire Arcana Pansophical and bring the matter to their attention. They are to leave in the morning and head directly for Vasselheim, instead of going to Emon and then charter a ship to the holy city.

Val goes to the hostel where they were staying to inform the group of this new change, but finds only Calladyne (Performing Cherry Wine). After passing along the information, Val says she is going to sleep in the airship for the night, to get out of the party’s way. Calla says the party wouldn’t mind, but understands if Val was uncomfortable. Before Val leaves, Calladyne says she wants to talk later, when everyone’s heads are clearer.

Veir heads off into the city in search of something, but the party does not know what happens until later.

As night takes the sanctuary city, Calladyne performs for the people, garnering many new fans after another stunning performance (and raising her fame stat to 13). Avaar was also able to glean some more backstory about Veir’s past, learning that his drive was to prove the capability of firearms and, by extension, himself.

Calladyne and Avaar (they are an item) share an intimate moment that night and Avaar tells Calladyne that she’s been looking into the Feywilde so that she can help the bard if her past ever comes back. Calladyne sees the effort put in to helping her / saving her and breaks down, recognizing that she might actually be free from the Archfey and Her illusions. Calla tells her lover everything that happened to her while she was in the Feywilde in the court of a sadistic archfey. The full extent of these terrible events are secret for now, but who knows when they may come spilling out.

The party departed on the small De Rolo airship they had arrived in the next morning. For two weeks they traveled, and for two weeks, there were some shenanigans and conversations to be had.

Apparently, on his short trip around the city, Veir had acquired magical eye gear that allowed him to read multiple languages. He needed them in order to properly read Bigby’s journal, which was written in several different languages.

Avaar wasn’t ready to deal with it.

He also made a kite for some reason.

It wasn’t very well crafted.

Calladyne was able to finally pull Val aside for their talk, mentioning a certain incident that had occurred in Whitestone.

Long story short, emotions were running high when baby Vax was taken, so when the council member who had betrayed the royal family refused to answer any questions regarding the organization she worked for, Val had gotten…trigger happy.

After another refusal to comply, even though the warlock was threatening to kill the woman and use her pact of the tome ability that allowed the questioning of a soul, Val shot off eldritch blasts into the Myriad member’s chest, killing the bound captive. She asked her question and through the fast action of Calladyne, the present party members were able to revivify the woman.

Val had never killed someone is cold blood before. She hadn’t even considered it until Calladyne had pointed it out. Additionally, Calladyne mentioned similar things happening to her (being killed and revived) on multiple occasions, though she doesn’t specify further. This led to some very troubled thoughts and inner turmoil for the young Aasimar.

“I’m afraid of snakes.” Those were the first words Avaar addressed Val with since their confrontation outside of Bigby’s tower.

“When my siblings and I would fight, we’d make up by telling each other a secret about ourselves,” Avaar explained.

Val admitted she didn’t like dressing like a goth, which she had been doing since she was twelve. She preferred her current Valkyrie look over the dark aesthetic she had thought all Raven Queen took up.

Later, as the airship neared Vasselheim, Calla and Avaar shared a talk about fate. Avaar refuses to believe in it, not trusting her life in the hands of a god, preferring that her past was controlled solely by her own actions. Calla confessed that she believed the opposite, that they were destined to be on this path. She told Avaar she’d rather die a martyr than live as a survivor.

Vasselheim in view now, the party finds that the artifacts they currently have react in the presence of one another, becoming more active and magically charged. Dixie’s hand has also begun to glow, shining brighter and brighter the closer the party neared the city.

Landing just outside the city, Val is practically jumping for joy, excited to finally officially commune with her patron and show her friends around the city she was trained in not too long ago.

Dixie and Calla head off to the Platinum Sanctuary first, the scale on Dixie’s hand shining brighter as they approached Bahamut’s center of worship.

Dixie met the dragon god who resurrected her, confused and conservative about her true feelings towards her current relationship with the god of justice.

Mad props to our DM @its-okay-to-yowz because he made one hell of a scary dragon god when he began screaming “DON’T LIE TO ME DIXILLION!”

Through a bit more prodding, The Platinum Dragon was able to get his revenant to embrace her desire for vengeance. They rounded out their conversation almost like coach psyching up their player for a game.

Dixie is now a Champion Fighter with one level in Paladin.

Veir ventured off to go gather supplies while Avaar was dragged along by Val to the Duskmeadow.

Upon approaching the steps, the doors are opened for the pair and Val’s raven flies off, leading them to the pool of blood deep in the temple. Val won’t shut up, voicing her previous frustration that the priests wouldn’t let her into the communion room before. Avaar is visibly nervous about the whole process, despite Val’s assurances that everything is going to be fine.

Shedding some clothing, Val tells Avaar that things might get wonky with time and she may be going for a while before practically swan diving into the pool of icy blood.

Val still has to come to very cusp of death in order to see her patron, so it takes her a moment to work up the will to actively drown herself. Avaar watches as the surface where Val disappeared gets violently disturbed after a minute, showing obvious signs of someone drowning, but she holds herself back as the blood eventually stills. No body floats to the top.

Val finds herself in the same dark space she usually sees in her dreams, her Raven on the floor in front of her. Normally, it would either speak as her Patron or become her Patron, but this time it transforms into a man. It’s Vax.

He beckons the warlock and she follows excitedly, heading into the blackness, seemingly going nowhere.

Eventually, the ground becomes smooth obsidian granite and a doorway appears. Vax turns to Val.

“No matter what happens, you should know that she is so proud of you.” He presses a simple black bracelet of woven thread into her hand before Val steps inside.

Val enters the Raven Queen’s throne room, a chamber made of shifting shadows. The Goddess herself is in her smaller form, appearing more humanoid as she welcomes Val.

(The order as to what was said here is a bit wonky, but the details are there.)

The Matron of Ravens tells Val that she is glad to finally speak with her, noting how Val is wearing her clasp, and that she and the other gods have seen something on the horizon that they can’t make out. The strings of fate have blurred. She explains that in her desperation to find a candidate to enforce her hand in the conflict to come, she chose the young Aasimar, much to young at the time to be burdened with such a task. She apologized to Val for how things were, but Val just replied “I’m used to it. This is what I want to do. I chose to follow you on my own, it was my decision to make.”

The Raven Queen removed her mask at that point, revealing her true face to a now crying Val. She whispered her name to her warlock, locking the secret into the back of the teenager’s mind. Val knows the name, it’s within her, but she doesn’t actually have to means to recall it or speak it. She just carries with her the knowledge that she knows the name.

Val finds out from her Goddess that there were five fate touched that the Gods were scrambling to get a hold of, Val among them. It is implied that the others are the members of Inveni Domus.

Val apologized for not upholding the values she was supposed to embody in Whitestone, to which the Raven Queen agrees that it was a most undesirable action that should never occur again.

The Raven Queen warns again that there are dark times ahead, that she is fearful of not being able to see where the threads are leading. Val tells her that she’ll shine some light on the matter. RQ tells Val to go get ‘em (or something the writer will be editing this later) to which Val says “You know I will.”

Feathers.

Cut to six hours later. Avaar has been worried sick, curing fate and the Raven Queen, afraid for the youngest party member. Val bursts out of the pool, yelling for Avaar. Helping the teen out of the pool, Avaar asks what happened. Val tells her all about the meeting (leaving out certain, more private bits), trying to dispel Avaar’s worry.

Avaar, however, is not convinced, still apprehensive to trust a God who chose a 16-year-old to be her champion. Val tells her that she doesn’t think she is her goddess’s champion, that the man she met in the meeting was the holder of that title.

Avaar asked what happened to him. Val’s response was not comforting. (bottom right corner doodle in previous picture.

So we close, zooming out from the five fate touched as they attend to their various activities.

A Fate Forged in Iron (Veir)

A Fate of Vengeance (Dixie)

A Fate Embraced (Calladyne)

A Fate Looking Ahead (Val)

A Fate Redeemed (Avaar)

author’s note :The crazy thing is, we all developed our backstories and characters separately, having no knowledge of what anyone was planning. @its-okay-to-yowz wanted us to all be fate touched from the very start, even before we created characters, as we had all been brought together by chance at GenCon and through a couple of chance meetings and well timed inquiries.

He created a Novas Design made by the Raven Queen even he knew that Val was going to be a Warlock of hers. Our character colors all match up. Tony was able to take elements of our backstories and weave them together. Calla and Avaar both went through similar stories of trauma and abuse, bonding over their shared struggles. It was meant to be the whole time, and we had no idea. Tony just sat back and watched us flounder about and struggle to grasp how perfect our stories were and how well everything fit together.

Thus the first arc as named Fate Touched.

#The Search Party #Avaar Acosta #Calladyne #Dixillion Ramada #Veir Torunn #Val Ganderstim #The Search party D&D #dungeons and dragons #Critical Role #taldorei campaign setting #percival de rolo #Vex'ahlia #allura vysoren #Bahamut #The Raven Queen #Raven Queen #Vax'ildan #long post

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petra-creat0r · 1 year ago

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Fey: What do you mean you've never had Cricket Crisps!? I thought that was a staple in everyone's house!

Allie: Fey, not only is that not a thing with even vampyres (surprisingly), I'm not sure that's a normal thing for most humans.

Alex: *Shoving Cricket Crisps in his mouth by the handful* Its not.

Fantasy stories should have more "what do you mean you don't do X" things in compare and contrast of cultures. Like the differences between peoples aren't the stuff they show off as "These Are Our Culture :)" things, fucking everyone has food and music and folk tales, but the things they've always assumed that everyone has, and are baffled to discover that they don't.

The people who are always barefoot are baffled that humans don't have a wash basin at their front door where people can wash their feet before stepping inside?? Do they just walk in with their dirty feet? The fuck do you mean you take your shoes off?

Humans don't have small baby-sized spellbooks for toddlers who just learned to read, so they can safely learn to practice tiny cute and harmless, age-appropriate magic spells before progressing to more mature and demanding spells? What, do they just throw teenagers completely unprepared into the arcane - hold the fuck up, is that why human sorceror mortality is so fucking high?

Dwarves who have always wondered why the entrance to human residences is so fucking big, why do you need to take up such a large area for a door that's just there to lead downstairs to the underground halls? Are the timber walls really as thick as a human is tall? What for? And once one of them gets invited to a human house to stay and rest, nobody ever fucking believes her: That's not the entrance, that's the whole fucking house. 100% of the human house is aboveground, there is no tunnel to the underground levels. They might have a single storage room down there, but the aboveground section is so fucking big because that's the whole house.

This post was brought to you by: People who butter their bread and who had no idea that there are people who put mayonnaise on their bread, and people who put mayo on their bread and had no idea about people who put butter on their bread discovering that the other kind of people exist.

#dragon riders #dragon rider #fey #allie #fey acosta #allie nightingale #aleks vixing #aleks #dragon riders characters

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tasksweekly · 7 years ago

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[TASK 075: MEXICO]

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 580+ Mexican faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever character or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK - examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Beatriz Aguirre (1926) Mexican - actress.

Luz María Aguilar (1935) Mexican - actress.

Jacqueline Andere (1936) Mexican - actress.

Susan Kohner (1936) Mexican [Roman Catholic, Czech Jewish] - actress.

Joan Baez (1941) Mexican / English - musician and activist.

Norma Mora (1943) Mexican [Unspecified Arab, Jewish, Irish] - actress.

Susana Alexander (1943) Mexican [German Jewish] - actress, hostess, producer, director, and dancer.

Victoria Wyndham (1945) Mexican / Unknown - actress.

Linda Ronstadt (1946) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other], German, English, Italian / English, German, Dutch - singer and actress.

Liliana Abud (1948) Mexican [Lebanese] - actress and screenwriter.

Olivia Harrison (1948) Mexican (including Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous, more distant African) - author and producer.

Belita Moreno (1949) Mexican - actress.

Rosanna DeSoto (1950) Mexican - actress.

Lynda Carter (1951) Mexican/Spanish-Mexican / English, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish - actress and musician.

Olga Breeskin (1951) Mexican - violinist, dancer and actress.

Lyn May (1952) Mexican [Chinese, Japanese, possibly other] - actress, vedette, and dancer.

Rosa Gloria Chagoyán (1953) Mexican [Armenian] - actress and singer.

Catherine Bach (1954) Mexican - actress.

Jesusa Rodríguez (1955) Mexican - actress, director, and writer.

Amparo Rubín (1955) Mexican [Jewish, possibly other] - singer.

Ana Gabriel (1955) Mexican [Chinese] - singer-songwriter.

Gina Gallego (1955) Mexican - actress.

Janet Arceo (1955) Mexican - actress, TV presenter, announcer, director and businesswoman

Sheila Escovedo / Sheila E (1957) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] / Creole [African, French, distant English] - drummer, singer-songwriter, actress, and author.

Astrid Hadad (1957) Mexican [Lebanese] - actress and performing artist.

Apollonia Kotero (1959) Mexican, possibly some German Jewish - actress, singer, model, and talent manager.

Lisa Mary Moretti / Ivory (1961) Italian, Mexican/ Swedish, German, Irish - professional wrestler.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961) Ashkenazi Jewish, German, Mexican, English, French, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish - actress, comedian, and producer.

Michele Greene (1962) Irish / Mexican, Nicaraguan - actress, musician, and author.

Carmen Amezcua (1962) Mexican - former actress and novelist.

Laura Harring (1964) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] / Austrian, German - actress and model.

Yareli Arizmendi (1964) Mexican - actor, writer, and director.

Laura Cerón (1964) Mexican - actress.

Rebecca de Alba (1964) Mexican - presenter and model.

Jackie Guerra (1965) Mexican - actress.

Alejandra Bogue (1965) Mexican [English, possibly other] - actress, comedian, tv host, and producer. - Trans!

Alex Meneses (1965) Mexican / Ukrainian, possibly some Polish - actress and model.

Michelle Forbes (1965) Mexican, English, possibly other - actress.

Constance Marie (1965) Mexican - actress.

Hope Sandoval (1966) Mexican - musician.

Marta Martin (1966) Mexican, possibly other / Unknown - actress.

Gabriella Hall (1966) Mexican - model and actress.

Suzette Quintanilla (1967) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish], Cherokee - actress and musician.

Mónica Dionne (1967) Mexican - actress.

Dacia Arcaráz (1967) Mexican - actress.

Lila Downs (1968) Mexican [Mixtec] / British - singer-songwriter and actress.

Vanessa Marcil (1968) Mexican / French, German, English, Italian, Portuguese - actress.

Lupita Jones (1968) Mexican, English, Basque - actress, director, and beauty queen.

Gloria Trevi (1968) Mexican [Spanish Jewish] - singer-songwriter and actress.

Susana Harp (1968) Mexican [Lebanese / Mixe] - singer.

Penélope Menchaca (1968) Mexican - television host, singer, and actress

Lucero Hogaza León / Lucero (1969) Mexican - musician.

Patricia Vonne (1969) Mexican - musician and actress.

Mayrín Villanueva (1970) Mexican - actress and model.

Julieta Venegas (1970) Mexican [French] - musician and producer.

Amairani (1970) Mexican - actress.

Ninel Conde (1970) Mexican - musician and actress.

Alix Bauer (1971) Mexican [German Jewish] - singer.

Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda / Thalía (1971) 15/16 Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish], 1/16 Italian - singer-songwriter and actress.

Paulina Rubio (1971) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish, possibly distant Italian, possibly other] - singer, actress, and model.

Bibi Gaytán (1972) Mexican - singer and actress.

Chantal Andere (1972) Mexican [Argentinian, Basque] - actress.

Úrsula Murayama (1972) Mexican [Japanese, possibly other] - actress.

Kate del Castillo (1972) Mexican - actress.

Marisol Nichols (1973) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] / Hungarian Jewish, Romanian Jewish, German Jewish - actress.

Delilah Vaniity Kotero / Vaniity (1973) Mexican [Purepecha] - porn actress and model. - Trans!

Jennifer Hanson (1973) Norwegian, German, Catalan, Mexican, Irish, possibly English - musician.

Oscar De La Hoya (1973) Mexican (including Spanish, Castilian, Unspecified Indigenous, and some African) - boxer.

María Fernanda Blázquez Gil / Fey (1973) Mexican [Argentinian] - singer.

Alpha Acosta (1973) Mexican - actress.

Anaís (1974) Mexican - actress.

Sandra Navarro Gillette / Gillette (1974) Mexican / Puerto Rican - musician.

Ara Celi (1974) Mexican - actress.

Adrienne Janic (1974) Mexican, Serbian - actress and television host.

Angélica Vale (1975) Venezuelan / Mexican, possibly other - actress, musician, and comedian.

Eva Longoria (1975) Mexican [Mayan, Unspecified African, Spanish] - actress, producer, and director.

Itatí Cantoral (1975) Mexican [Spanish, including Andalusian, possibly other], Chilean, French / Argentinian [Italian] - actress, singer, dancer, and producer.

Jaydy Michel (1975) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Unspecified African, Spanish, distant French] / English, Irish, Welsh, Norwegian, French - actress and model.

Alanna Ubach (1975) Mexican / Puerto Rican - actress and singer.

Sara Ramirez (1975) ¾ Mexican, ¼ Irish - actress and singer-songwriter.

Aracely Arámbula (1975) Mexican [French, Basque, possibly other] - actress, model, and singer.

Ruth Livier (1975) Mexican - actress.

Jaci Velasquez (1976) Mexican, Spanish, French, Scottish, Arab - actress and musician.

Vinessa Shaw (1976) Russian Jewish, Italian, German, Irish, English, Mexican, and Swedish - actress and model.

Mariana Seoane (1976) Argentinian / Cuban, Mexican - actress, model and singer.

Shar Jackson (1976) Mexican, Puerto Rican / African-American, Unspecified Native American (Unconfirmed) - actress and singer.

Natalia Livingston (1976) Mexican, Ashkenazi Jewish, Swiss, German / English, Irish, French - actress.

Jessica Mas (1976) Mexican, Puerto Rican - actress.

Iyari Limon (1976) Mexican - actress.

Alana de la Garza (1976) Mexican, Irish - actress.

Elsa Benítez (1977) Mexican - model and presenter.

Marisa Ramirez (1977) Mexican (five eighths), along with Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, possibly English, Irish, French, Unspecified Native American - actress.

Nancy Taira (1977) Mexican [Japanese] - actress.

Ana de la Reguera (1977) Mexican - actress.

Elizabeth Álvarez (1977) Mexican - actress.

Sophie Alexander (1978) Mexican [German Jewish, possibly other] - actress.

Vanessa Villela (1978) Mexican - actress.

Courtney Ford (1978) Mexican, English, Irish, possibly other - actress.

Kimberly McCullough (1978) Mexican / Irish, possibly other - actress, television director, and dancer.

America Olivo (1978) Italian, Chilean, Mexican, Basque, Spanish / Belgian, Irish - actress, musician, and model.

Maya Jupiter (1978) Mexican [Mayan] / Turkish - rapper, songwriter, MC, and radio personality.

Eden Espinosa (1978) Mexican - actress.

Mandy Gonzalez (1978) Mexican / Jewish [of Polish and Romanian origin] - actress and musician.

Kandee Johnson (1978) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish], Danish, English, Irish, Swedish, remote French and Welsh, likely Scottish - youtuber.

Bibelot Mansur (1978) Mexican / Lebanese - actress.

Ana Serradilla (1978) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] - actress.

Alejandra Robles (1978) Afro Mexican - singer and dancer.

Aimee Garcia (1978) Mexican / Puerto Rican - actress.

Bárbara Mori (1978) Mexican [Japanese, Lebanese, Basque, Uruguayan] - actress, model, producer, and writer.

Elizabeth Gutiérrez (1979) Mexican - actress and model.

Melina Perez (1979) Mexican - model, actress, retired professional wrestler and valet.

Blanca Soto (1979) Mexican - actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.

Cristela Alonzo (1979) Mexican - comedian, actress, writer and producer.

Laura Govan (1979) Mexican / African-American - television personality.

Angelique Cabral (1979) Mexican, Unspecified Native American / English, French - actress.

Jacqueline Bracamontes (1979) Mexican / Belgian/Flemish - actress and model.

Jessica Coch (1979) Mexican [Argentinian] - actress.

Nina Mercedez (1979) Mexican [Aztec, possibly other] / Italian, possibly other - model, dancer, producer, and former porn actress.

Sara Maldonado (1980) Mexican - actress.

Sachi Tamashiro (1980) Mexican / Japanese - actress.

Yoanna House (1980) Mexican / European - model and television host.

Lela Loren (1980) Mexican / European - actress.

Rosie Mercado (1980) Mexican - makeup artist, fashion designer and television personality.

Adriana Sage (1980) Afro Mexican - actress, model, and former porn actress.

Marisa Quinn (1980) Lipan Apache / Mexican - actress.

Claudia Álvarez (1981) Mexican - actress and model.

Alexis Bledel (1981) Argentinian [Danish, German] / Mexican [Scottish, English, Irish, Welsh, French] - actress and model.

Christina T / T Lopez (1981) Mexican - actress and musician.

Shawndey “Dey” Gomez (1981) Mexican, Arapaho, Yavapai Apache, Spanish - musician (Dey & Nite).

Tawnya “Nite” Gomez (1981) Mexican, Arapaho, Yavapai Apache, Spanish - musician (Dey & Nite) and actress.

Ericka Cruz (1981) Afro Mexican - beauty pageant titleholder.

Jessica Alba (1981) Mexican [Mayan, Sephardi Jewish, Spanish] / Danish, Welsh, German, English, Scottish, Irish, French - actress.

Miriam Rivera (1981) Mexican - tv personality, model, and porn actress.

Nicole Richie (1981) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish], African-American, Louisiana Creole [Unspecified African, French, English], possibly other - actress, tv personality, author, and fashion designer.

Bitsie Tulloch (1981) Mexican, English, Scottish, Spanish - actress.

Dafne Molina (1982) Mexican - designer, model and beauty pageant titleholder.

Natalia Cordova-Buckley (1982) Mexican - actress.

Anjelah Johnson (1982) Mexican / English, possibly other - her official website states she’s also Unspecified Native American - actress and comedian.

Angélica Celaya (1982) Mexican - actress.

Elena Finney (1982) Mescalero Apache, Mexican [Purepecha], Irish - actress and producer.

Giselle Itié (1982) Mexican / Brazilian - actress.

Martha Higareda (1982) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] -actress, model, writer, and producer.

Vanessa Laine Bryant (1982) Mexican - insta model.

Vic Fuentes (1983) Mexican - musician.

Fernanda Romero (1983) Mexican - actress, model, and musician.

Aundrea Fimbres (1983) Mexican - musician and dancer.

Lupita Nyong’o (1983) Mexican [Luo Kenyan] - actress.

Vannessa Vasquez (1983) Mexican - actress.

Maite Perroni (1983) Mexican [including Spanish, Italian, Basque, possibly other] - actress, model, and musician.

Ashley Dzerigian (1983) Mexican / possibly French - musician.

Sandra Hinojosa (1983) Ojibwe, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Mexican - actress.

Claudia Salinas (1983) Mexican [Russian Jewish, possibly other] - actress, model, and blogger.

Anahí Giovanna Puente de Velasco / Anahí (1983) Spanish, Mexican - actress and musician.

Brie Bella (1983) Mexican / Italian, English, Irish, Scottish - wrestler.

Nikki Bella (1983) Mexican / Italian, English, Irish, Scottish - wrestler.

Teresa Castillo (1983) Mexican, Chinese, Spanish - actress.

Tessa Thompson (1983) Afro Panamanian / Mexican, Unspecified European - actress.

Edy Ganem (1983) Mexican, Lebanese - actress.

Johanna Santos Polanco (1983) Afro Mexican / Dominican - model.

Ilean Almaguer (1984) Mexican - actress.

Naima Mora (1984) Mexican, African-American, Native American, Irish - model.

Gabrielle Ruiz (1984) Mexican - actress.

Melody Thornton (1984) Mexican / African-American - musician and dancer.

Celeste Thorson (1984) Mexican [Mescalero Apache, Spanish], Lebanese, Syrian / Korean, Scottish, Irish, English - actress, model, and screenwriter.

Sandra Echeverría (1984) Mexican, Dominican - actress and singer.

Sabrina Bryan (1984) Mexican [Spanish, likely other] / Cherokee, German - actress, singer-songwriter, dancer, and tv personality.

Natalia Lafourcade (1984) Mexican, possibly small amount of English / Chilean, French Basque - musician.

Megan Ewing (1984) Mexican, German - model.

Luz Reality (1984) Mexican - rapper.

Krysta Rodriguez (1984) Mexican / English, possibly other - actress and singer.

Arianny Celeste (1985) ¾ Mexican, ¼ Filipina - model.

Gloria Govan (1985) African-American / Mexican - television personality.

Mariee Sioux (1985) Paiute, Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] / Polish, Hungarian - singer-songwriter.

Dulce Maria (1985) Mexican, likely around 1/8th German - actress and musician.

Vanessa Huppenkothen (1985) Mexican / German - model, actress, and television presenter.

Karla Souza (1985) Mexican / Chilean [likely Portuguese, possibly other] - actress.

Eréndira Ibarra (1985) Mexican - actress.

Kavka Shishido (1985) Mexican [Japanese] - singer-songwriter, drummer, actress, radio personality, and tv personality.

Alyssa Diaz (1985) Colombian / Mexican - actress.

Sebastián Zurita (1986) Mexican [German, Italian] - actor.

Nazanin Mandi (1986) Iranian, Mexican, Unspecified Native American, Spanish - actress, singer, and model.

Charlyne Yi (1986) Korean, Yuki, Mexican, Irish, German, French / Filipina, Spanish - actress, comedian, musician, and writer.

Audrey Esparza (1986) Mexican [Catalan, Spanish, possibly other] - actress.

Camila Sodi (1986) 31/32 Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish], 1/32 Italian - singer, actress, and model.

Carla Morrison (1986) Mexican [English, possibly other] - singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Cassie Ventura / Cassie (1986) Mexican, African-American, Unspecified Caribbean / Filipina - actress, model, singer, and dancer.

Noël Wells (1986) Tunisian / Mexican, other - actress and filmmaker.

Yrahid Leylanni (1986) Mexican [Lebanese] - actress.

Ana Brenda Contreras (1986) Mexican - actress and singer.

Lauren Lopez (1986) Mexican / Jewish - actress, singer, and dancer.

Mare Advertencia Lirika / Mare (1987) Mexican [Zapotec] - rapper and singer-songwriter.

Courtney McCullough (1987) Chinese / Mexican - actress.

Claudia A. Feliciano / Snow tha Product (1987) Mexican - musician.

Brooke Westbrooks (1987) Mexican, African American, Creole [Unspecified Native American, possibly other], Indian - social media star and tv personality.

Stephanie Sigman (1987) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] / German, possibly other - actress.

Rose Leslie (1987) ⅛ Mexican, ⅞ mix of Scottish, English, Irish, French Huguenot - actress.

Carla Esparza (1987) Mexican, Ecuadorian / Irish, English, Scottish - professional mixed martial artist.

Bárbara de Regil (1987) Mexican [Lebanese, possibly other] - actress.

Daniella Pineda (1987) Mexican - actress, comedian, and writer.

Summer Bishil (1988) Indian / Mexican, Cherokee, German, English, Dutch - actress.

Teresa Ruiz (1988) Mexican - actress and producer.

Ximena Navarrete (1988) Mexican - actress, television host, model, and beauty queen.

Erica Rivera (1988) Mexican - actress and musician.

Francia Raisa (1988) Mexican / Honduran - actress.

Natalie Mejia (1988) Mexican / Cuban - singer.

Alicia Sixtos (1988) Mexican / Portuguese [including Azorean] - actress.

Teneil Whiskeyjack (1988) Mexican, Plains Cree - actress.

Sara Paxton (1988) Mexican [Spanish Jewish, Dutch Jewish, German, Chilean] / Irish, Scottish, English, French - actress, singer, and model.

Emily Rios (1989) Mexican - actress and model.

Devin Star Tailes / Dev (1989) Mexican, Portuguese - musician.

Paula Deanda (1989) Mexican - musician.

Kristin Herrera (1989) Mexican, Puerto Rican - actress.

Jamillette Gaxiola (1989) Mexican [Lebanese] / Cuban [Lebanese] - beauty pageant titleholder.

Lindsey Morgan (1990) Mexican / Irish - actress.

Morgan Westbrooks (1990) Mexican, African American, Creole [Unspecified Native American, possibly other], Indian - social media star and tv personality.

Nia Sanchez (1990) Mexican, German / Spanish, German, English, other - actress, model, taekwondo coach, television host, and beauty queen.

Kristinia DeBarge (1990) Mexican / Unspecified Other.

Eiza González (1990) Mexican - actress and singer.

Giza Lagarce (1990) Mexican / French - model.

Kristinia DeBarge (1990) ⅜ Mexican [Spanish, smaller amounts Unspecified Indigenous, Unspecified African], ¼ African-American, 1/32 Danish, 1/32 Norwegian, rest mix of English, Irish, French, Welsh, German, Icelandic - singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer.

Liz Lee (1991) Mexican / Unknown - actress.

Seychelle Gabriel (1991) Mexican, French / Italian, Sicilian - actress.

Chanel Celaya (1991) Mexican / English, possibly other - actress and model.

Luz Pavon (1991) Afro Mexican - model.

Cayleigh Elise (1991) Mexican, other - youtuber.

Michelle Álvarez (1991) Mexican - actress and musician.

Kirstin Maldonado (1992) Mexican / Spanish, Italian - singer-songwriter.

Nikki Glamour (1992) Mexican - youtuber.

Shelbie Bruce (1992) Mexican / English, Scottish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish - actress.

Okairy Giner (1992) Mexican - actress.

Raye Zaragoza (1993) Mexican, Akimel O’odham / Taiwanese, Japanese - singer-songwriter.

Daniela Bobadilla (1993) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] - actress.

Naressa Valdez (1993) African-American, Mexican, Unspecified Native American, Italian, Portuguese - model and instagrammer.

Miranda Cosgrove (1993) ⅛ Mexican, ⅞ mix of Irish, English, French, German [Alsatian] - actress and singer-songwriter.

Ally Brooke Hernandez / Ally Brooke (1993) Mexican - singer.

Nizhoni Cooley (1993) Mexican, Navajo, Irish, Czechoslovakian - model and instagrammer.

Rachel Trachtenburg (1993) Mexican [Jewish, possibly other] - singer, drummer, actress, model, and talk show host.

Crystal Westbrooks (1993) Mexican, African American, Creole [Unspecified Native American, possibly other], Indian - social media star and tv personality.

Anahi Altuzar (1993) Mexican - beauty pageant titleholder. - Trans!

Jasmine Villegas / Jasmine V (1993) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] / Filipina, German, Irish - singer.

Raini Rodriguez (1993) Mexican - actress and musician.

Bree Westbrooks (1993) Mexican, African American, Creole [Unspecified Native American, possibly other], Indian - actress, social media star, and tv personality.

Julia Michaels (1993) Mexican [Spanish, some Unspecified Indigenous] / Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Scottish - musician.

Megan Nicole (1993) Mexican / English, German, Scottish, Unspecified Native American - singer, songwriter, actress, and model.

Lourdes Montes / Lulu Montes / Sheslulu (1993) Mexican - youtuber.

Hayley Orrantia (1994) Mexican, English, Irish, French - actress and musician.

Cristina Valenzuela (1994) Mexican, Spanish - youtuber.

Julia Goldani Telles (1995) Mexican [Spanish, probably other] / Brazilian [Italian, probably other] - actress and ballerina.

Sofia Reyes (1995) Mexican - musician.

Issa Lish (1995) Mexican / Japanese - model.

Bethany Mota (1995) Mexican, English / Portuguese - youtuber.

Jessica Sanchez (1995) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Unspecified African, Spanish, possibly other] / Filipina [Aklanon, possibly other], possibly Chinese - singer-songwriter.

Cierra Ramirez (1995) Mexican / Colombian - actress, model, and singer.

Danna Paola (1995) Mexican - actress, model, fashion designer and musician.

Vanessa Merrell (1996) Mexican, Filipina, Spanish, Irish, Portuguese, German - actress, singer, and youtuber.

Georgie Flores (1996) Mexican, remote French - actress.

Veronica Merrell (1996) Mexican, Filipina, Spanish, Irish, Portuguese, German - actress, singer, and youtuber.

India Westbrooks (1996) African American, Mexican, Creole [Unspecified Native American, possibly other, Indian - internet personality.

Lucero Rios (1996) Mexican - isnta model.

Chachi Gonzales (1996) Mexican - dancer, choreographer, and actress.

Brianna Hildebrand (1996) Mexican / German, English, Irish - actress.

Antoinette Marie Martin (1996) Mexican / African-American - model.

Victoria Moroles (1996) Mexican / French, Polish, English, Finnish - actress.

Eva Noblezada (1996) Filipina / Mexican - actress and musician.

Becky G (1997) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] - actress, singer-songwriter, model, rapper, and dancer.

Matreya Fedor (1997) Mexican - actress.

Rebecca Black (1997) Mexican / English, Polish, Italian - singer.

Emilia McCarthy (1997) Mexican / Unspecified White - actress, dancer, and writer.

Kiana Brown / Kiana Ledé (1997) Unspecified Black, Mexican (Unconfirmed), Cherokee (Unconfirmed), Swedish - actress and musician.

Justine Biticon (1998) Mexican / Filipina - model.

Karol Sevilla (1999) Mexican - actress, singer-songwriter, and youtuber.

Mia Xitlali (1999) Mexican [Aztec, possibly other] - actress.

Madison De La Garza (2001) Mexican - actress.

Jenna Ortega (2002) ¾ Mexican, ¼ Puerto Rican - actress.

Sharon Anne Henderson (?) Navajo, Mexican, Basque - actress.

Dana Jeffrey (?) ¼ Ojibwe, ¼ Thai, unspecified amounts of Mexican, Afro Guyanese, Indo Guyanese, distant English - actress.

Tania Teyacapan Garcia (?) Mexican [Pame, Huastec, Apache, Guachichil, Afro Potosina] - model.

Niña Dioz (?) Mexican - rapper.

Linda Oliver (?) Mexican / Cherokee, Irish - model.

Miranda Lombardo (?) Mexican - beauty pageant titleholder. - Trans!

Morningstar Angeline (?) Navajo, Blackfoot, Chippewa Cree / Mexican, Unspecified European - actress.

Mariana Treviño (?) Mexican [Spanish Jewish] - actress.

Miika Bryce Whiskeyjack (?) Mexican, Plains Cree, possibly other - actress.

Italia Navarrete (?) Mexican - beauty pageant titleholder. - Trans!

Thana Redhawk (?) Mexican [Mexica, Lipan Apache] / Cherokee, Lakota Sioux, Osage - musician and poet.

Brenda Contreras (?) Mexican - beauty pageant titleholder. - Trans!

Kelly Montijo Fink (?) Mexican, Apache, Spanish - singer-songwriter.

Jackeline Arroyo (?) Mexican - actress and presenter.

Giselle Valero (?) Mexican - beauty pageant titleholder. - Trans!

Estrella Hood (?) Mexican [Matlatzinca, Spanish, possibly other] - musician (World Hood).

Soni Moreno (?) Mexican [Apache, Mayan, Yaqui] - musician (Ulali).

Angela Lanza (?) Mexican - actress.

Seidy López (?) Mexican - actress.

Tanya Saracho (?) Mexican - playwright and writer.

Elena Tovar (?) Mexican - actress.

Karime Bribiesca (?) Mexican - model.

Cindy Gradilla (?) Mexican - model.

Chhoti Maa (?) Mexican [Aztec], Peruvian [Quechua] - rapper.

Mariana Zaragoza (?) Mexican - model.

Daniella Valdez (?) Mexican - model.

Jezzy P (?) Mexican - rapper.

Sabinee Camou (?) Mexican - model.

Joss Corona (?) Mexican - model.

Amara Zaragoza (?) Mexican [Purepecha] / German - actress.

Kimberly Loaiza (?) Mexican - instagram model and youtuber.

Erika Palomera Plascencia (?) Mexican - model.

Jailyne Ojeda (?) Mexican - insta model.

Jimena Sanche (?) Mexican - insta model.

Sofia Solares (?) Mexican - insta model.

Samantha Leyva (?) Mexican - insta model.

Patricia Ancira (?) Mexican - actress.

Jessica Meraz (?) Mexican / Scottish, Irish - actress.

Armando Manzanero (1935) Mexican [Mayan] - singer, pianist, accordionist, actor, producer, and composer.

Héctor Bonilla (1939) Mexican - actor.

Abraham Quintanilla Jr. (1939) Mexican (Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous Mexican) - musician and producer.

Manuel Ojeda (1940) Mexican - actor.

Juan Ferrara (1943) Mexican - actor.

Danny Trejo (1944) Mexican - actor.

Cheech Marin (1946) Mexican - actor, comedian, writer, and activist.

Carlos Santana (1947) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish, distant Unspecified African] - musician.

Edward James Olmos (1947) Mexican - actor.

A Martinez (1948) Mexican, Apache / Pikuni Blackfoot, Unspecified Northern European - actor and singer.

Benny Urquidez (1952) Mexican, Blackfoot, Spanish - actor, pro boxer, and choreographer.

Salvador Pineda (1952) Mexican - actor.

Robert Beltran (1953) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] - actor.

Alejandro Camacho (1954) Mexican - actor and producer.

David Ostrosky (1954) Mexican [Saudi Arabian, Ukrainian Jewish, Polish Jewish] - actor.

Humberto Zurita (1954) MExican - actor, director, and producer.

Griffin Dunne (1955) Irish, English, German, Mexican, Swedish / Irish - actor, producer, and director.

Manuel Landeta (1958) Mexican [Lebanese, Basque] - actor and singer.

Sergio Goyri (1958) Mexican - actor.

Alfredo Adame (1958) Mexican [German] - actor, producer, and host.

Fher Olvera (1959) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] - singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Fernando Ciangherotti (1959) Mexican [Italian] - actor.

Eduardo Yáñez (1960) Mexican - actor.

Odiseo Bichir (1960) Mexican [Lebanese, possibly other] - actor.

René Casados (1961) Mexican - actor.

Peter Michael Escovedo (1961) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] / Creole [African, French, distant English] - percussionist.

Emilio Rivera (1961) Mexican - actor and comedian.

Alfonso Mejia-Arias (1961) Mexican [Romani, Spanish] - musician and writer.

Eugenio Derbez (1961) Mexican, some French - actor, comedian, director, writer, entrepreneur, and producer.

Rafael Rojas (1961) Mexican - former model and actor.

Chuck Billy (1962) Mexican / Pomo - musician.

Arturo Peniche (1962) Mexican - actor.

Juan Calleros (1962) Mexican - musician.

Jesse Borrego (1962) Mexican [Mescalero Apache, Aztec] - actor.

Ari Telch (1962) Mexican [Jewish, possibly other] - actor.

Alberto Estrella (1962) Mexican - actor.

Omar Fierro (1963) Mexican - actor and host.

Kevin John Wasserman / Noodles (1963) ¼ Mexican, ¾ mix of German, Irish, possibly other - musician.

Rob Moran (1963) Mexican - actor.

Demián Bichir (1963) Mexican [Lebanese, possibly other] - actor.

Damian Chapa (1963) Mexican [including Spanish and Italian] / German - actor, producer, and director.

A.B. Quintanilla (1963) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish], Cherokee - musician.

Alejandro González Iñárritu (1963) Mexican - actor.

Raúl Araiza (1964) Mexican - actor and presenter.

Héctor Soberón (1964) Mexican - actor.

Guillermo del Toro (1964) Mexican - director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist.

Paul Weitz (1965) ¾ Ashkenazi Jewish, ⅛ Mexican, ⅛ Irish - actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.

Alexis Ayala (1965) Mexican - actor.

Fernando Colunga (1966) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] - actor.

Bruno Bichir (1967) Mexican [Lebanese, possibly other] - actor.

Matt Chamberlain (1967) Mexican / possibly English - musician and producer.

Carlos Mencía (1967) Honduran, Mexican - comedian, writer, and actor.

Dave Navarro (1967) Mexican [Spanish, some African, possibly other] / English, German, remote Welsh - musician and actor.

Eduardo Santamarina (1968) Mexican - actor.

Jeff Becerra (1968) Mexican [Lebanese] - musician.

Robert Rodriguez (1968) Mexican - director, writer, cinematographer, producer, editor, musician, actor, and cartoonist.

Jorge Salinas (1968) Mexican - actor.

Chris Weitz (1969) ¾ Ashkenazi Jewish, ⅛ Mexican, ⅛ Irish - actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and author.

Israel Jaitovich (1969) Mexican [Jewish, Spanish] - actor, producer, writer, and racing car driver.

Gary Paul Davis / Litefoot (1969) Mexican [Chichimeca] / Cherokee - rapper and actor.

Diego Schoening (1969) Mexican [German Jewish] - actor, singer, and tv host.

Chris Pérez (1969) Mexican - guitarist and songwriter.

Rene L. Moreno (1969) Mexican - actor.

Armando Araiza (1969) Mexican - actor.

Zack de la Rocha (1970) ¾ Mexican [Unspecified African, Sephardi Jewish, Spanish], ¼ mix of English, French, German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Dutch, Swiss - rapper, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

Adam Goldberg (1970) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Mexican, French, English, Irish - actor, musician, director, and producer.

Stephen Carpenter (1970) Mexican / English, possibly other - musician.

José María Yazpik (1970) Mexican [Unspecified Arab] - actor.

Eduardo Capetillo (1970) Mexican [Basque, small amount of Unspecified African] / Spanish - actor and singer.

Noel Gugliemi (1970) Mexican / Italian - actor.

Clifton Collins Jr. (1970) Mexican - actor.

Eddie Bravo (1970) Mexican - Jiu-Jitsu instructor.

Clifton Collins, Jr. (1970) Mexican / German - actor.

Luis Miguel (1970) Mexican [Italian, Spanish] - musician.

Al Madrigal (1971) Mexican / Italian [Sicilian] - comedian and actor.

Bobby Pulido (1971) Mexican - musician and actor.

John Wozniak (1971) ¼ Irish, ¼ Mexican, ½ mix of Polish, Ukrainian, English, Irish, Scottish - musician.

Jacob Vargas (1971) Mexican - actor.

Christian Camargo (1971) ¼ Mexican, ¾ English, possibly other - actor, producer, writer, and director.

Ricardo Antonio Chavira (1971) Mexican / German, Irish - actor.

Mark Consuelos (1971) Mexican / Italian - actor.

Michael Irby (1972) Mexican / African-American - actor.

Kurt Caceres (1972) Mexican / German, English, Irish - actor.

Víctor Noriega (1972) Mexican - actor, musician, and model.

Mauricio Islas (1973) Mexican - actor.

Alfred Nevarez (1973) Mexican - musician.

Mario Lopez (1973) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] - actor and television host.

Javier Poza (1973) Mexican - actor.

Efren Ramirez (1973) Salvadoran, Mexican - actor and DJ.

Tariano Adaryll Jackson II (1973) Mexican / African-American - musician.

Chino Moreno (1973) ⅞ Mexican [Unspecified African, Spanish, possibly Unspecified Indigenous], ⅛ Chinese - singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboardist.

Jaime Camil (1973) Mexican [Egyptian, possibly other] / Brazilian [Portuguese, possibly other] - actor, singer, and tv personality.

Jean Duverger (1973) Mexican [Haitian, French] - actor.

David Zepeda (1973) Mexican - actor, model, and musician.

Roberto Orci (1973) Mexican [Italian, Spanish] / Cuban - screenwriter and producer.

Juan Manuel Márquez (1974) Mexican - boxer.

Fermin IV (1974) Mexican - musician.

Rey Mysterio (1974) Mexican - wrestler.

Eduardo Verástegui (1974) Mexican - actor, model, and musician.

Cedric Bixler-Zavala (1974) Mexican [German, Spanish, possibly other] - musician.

Pablo Montero (1974) Mexican - musician and actor.

Fabián Robles (1974) Mexican - actor.

Taryll Adren Jackson (1975) Mexican / African-American - musician.

Jaime Luis Gomez / Taboo (1975) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Unspecified African, Spanish], Shoshone - rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, and DJ.

Samuel Parra Cruz / Samo (1975) Afro Mexican - singer-songwriter.

Bodie Olmos (1975) Mexican / English, German, Swiss-French, Swedish - actor.

Tom DeLonge (1975) English, some Mexican - musician, businessperson, and producer.

Gabriel Soto (1975) Mexican - actor and model.

Pato Machete (1975) Mexican - musician.

Valentino Lanús (1975) Mexican - actor.

Aarón Sanchez (1975) Mexican [66.4% European, 24.6% Unspecified Native American, 3.7% Sub-Saharan African, 1.6% North African, 0.7% South Asian, 0.1% Oceanian, 2.9% unknown] - chef and television personality.

Baby Bash (1975) Mexican / English - rapper.

Mauricio Aspe (1975) Mexican - actor.

Frankie J (1975) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] - musician.

Marco Méndez (1976) Mexican - actor.

Alfonso de Nigris (1976) Mexican [Italian] - actor and television personality.

Adrian Grenier (1976) Mexican [Apache, Spanish], French / English, Irish, Scottish, German - actor, musician, producer, and director.

Carter Oosterhouse (1976) Mexican, Dutch - television personality and model.

Michael Peña (1976) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] - actor and musician.

Kevin Alejandro (1976) Mexican - actor.

James Roday (1976) Mexican / English, Irish, Scottish, distant Swiss-German and German - actor, director, and screenwriter.

José Pasillas (1976) Mexican - musician.

Toy Selectah (1976) Mexican / Colombian - musician.

Gabriel Iglesias (1976) Mexican - actor, comedian, writer, and producer.

MC Babo (1976) Mexican - rapper (Cartel de Santa).

Nicholas Gonzalez (1976) Mexican - actor.

Raul Castillo (1977) Mexican - actor and playwright.

Edward Furlong (1977) Mexican / Unknown, possibly Russian - actor and musician.

Jorge Poza (1977) Mexican - actor.

Rafael Amaya (1977) Mexican - actor.

José María Torre (1977) Mexican - actor.

Mark Tacher (1977) Mexican [Romanian Jewish] - actor, musician, and tv host.

Erasmo Catarino (1977) Mexican [Nahua] - singer.

Facundo (1978) Mexican [Argentinian] - tv host.

Tito Joe Jackson (1978) Mexican / African-American - musician.

Bocafloja (1978) Mexican - rapper and writer.

RedCloud (1978) Mexican, Huichol - rapper.

Ariel Pink (1978) Mexican [Jewish, possibly other] / Unknown - singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

Kuno Becker (1978) Mexican (Yaqui, Other Unspecified Native American), German, Spanish - actor.

José Luis Reséndez (1978) Mexican - actor and model.

Carlos Galvan (1978) Mexican / Korean - musician.

Nick Wechsler (1978) Mexican, English, German, Swiss-German, possibly other - actor.

Jay Hernandez (1978) Mexican - actor.

Diego Dreyfus (1979) Mexican - actor and model.

Diego Luna (1979) Mexican / English, Scottish - actor, director, and producer.

Rowan Rabia (1979) Mexican - rapper (Cartel de Santa).

Jeremy Ray Valdez (1980) Mexican / Navajo - actor.

Beau Bokan (1981) Mexican / Unspecified Other - musician.

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (1981) Mexican - actor.

Eugenio Siller (1981) Mexican / German - actor and musician.

Miguel Torres (1981) Mexican - martial artist.

Joe Arquette (1981) Mexican - actor.

John Joseph Kongos (1981) English, Mexican, Scottish / Greek - musician.

José Ron (1981) Mexican - actor.

Rodrigo Nehme (1982) Mexican [Lebanese, probably other] - actor.

Aarón Díaz (1982) Mexican / Irish - actor, singer, and model.

Cain Velasquez (1982) Mexican - martial artist.

Kalimba Marichal / Kalimba (1982) Afro Mexican / Afro Cuban - actor and singer.

Ferdinando Valencia (1982) Mexican - actor.

Luis Gerardo Mendez (1982) Mexican - actor and producer.

Jesse Garcia (1982) Mexican, Spanish - actor.

Felipe Colombo (1983) Argentinian / Mexican - actor, singer, guitarist, and composer.

Alfonso Herrera (1983) Mexican - actor, producer, and former singer.

José María de Tavira (1983) Mexican / Argentinian - actor.

Manny Montana (1983) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish, Irish] - actor.

Cub Swanson (1983) Mexican / Swedish - martial artist.

Richard Cabral (1984) Mexican - actor.

Kid Cudi (1984) ¾ African-American, ¼ Afro Mexican - rapper and actor.

Jesse Dean Kongos (1984) English, Mexican, Scottish / Greek - musician.

Carlos Condit (1984) Austrian, German, Cherokee, Spanish-Mexican, Unspecified Indigenous Mexican - martial artist.

Paul Rodriguez (1984) Mexican - skateboarder and actor.

MC Dharius (1984) Mexican - actor and rapper (Cartel de Santa).

Chris Olivero (1984) Mexican, Italian - actor.

Big Dan (1985) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous] - musician.

James Lafferty (1985) Mexican / Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish - actor, director, and producer.

Michael Trevino (1985) Mexican - actor.

Alex Meraz (1985) Mexican [Purepecha] - actor, dancer, and martial artist.

Miguel Jontel Pimentel (1985) Mexican / African-American - musician, actor, and producer.

Millonario (1985) Mexican - rapper (Cartel de Santa).

Christopher Uckermann (1986) Swedish, German, Mexican - musician.

Joseph Julian Soria (1986) Mexican - actor.

Mark Ballas (1986) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other], Greek / English, Irish - actor, singer-songwriter, guitarist, dancer, and choreographer.

Dylan Gabriel Kongos (1986) English, Mexican, Scottish / Greek - musician.

Peter Gadiot (1986) Mexican / Dutch - actor.

Ricardo Abarca (1986) Mexican - actor.

Imanol Landeta (1987) Mexican [Lebanese, Basque] - actor and singer.

Ryan Guzman (1987) Mexican / English, Scottish, German, Swedish, French, Dutch - actor.

Carlos Athié (1987) Mexican - actor, model, and presenter.

Orson Chaplin (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish, Mexican / English, Irish, 1/16th Scottish - actor and rapper.

Victor Ortiz (1987) Mexican - boxer.

Arin Ilejay (1988) Mexican, Filipino [Aklanon] / Dutch, German, possibly other - drummer.

Alvin Alvarez (1989) Mexican - actor.

Carlito Olivero (1989) Mexican / Puerto Rican - singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer.

Logan Henderson (1989) 50% English, Scottish 25% Mexican 12.5% Moravian (Czech) 12.5% Polish - actor and musician.

Kenta Sakurai (1989) Mexican / Japanese - model.

Lane Hughes (1989) Mexican - actor and musician.

Daniel Lee Kongos (1989) English, Mexican, Scottish / Greek - musician.

Sotelúm (1989) Mexican [Sephardi Jewish] - musician.

Cameron Quiseng (1990) Mexican, Filipino, Native Hawaiian, Unspecified European - bassist.

Levi Johnston (1990) ¼ Mexican, ¾ mix of English, German, Swedish - model and actor.

Diego Amozurrutia (1990) Mexican - actor and model.

Erick Elías (1990) Mexican - actor.

Ryan Bergara (1990) ½ Japanese, ⅜ Mexican, ⅛ Filipino - buzzfeed employee.

Miles Luna (1990) Mexican - actor and filmmaker.

Diego Boneta (1990) Mexican / Puerto Rican, Spanish, German, Swiss - actor and singer-songwriter.

Canelo Álvarez (1990) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] - boxer.

Jesús Pat Chablé / Pat Boy Rap Maya / Pat Boy (1991) Mexican [Mayan] - rapper.

José Pablo Minor (1991) Mexican - actor, television host, and model.

Erick Lopez (1991) Mexican - actor.

Mariana Bayón (1991) Mexican - model.

Erick Orrosquieta / Deorro (1991) Mexican - DJ.

Jorge Blanco (1991) Mexican - recording artist, dancer, songwriter, and actor.

Ashton Moio (1992) Mexican / Italian - actor.

Cameron Dallas (1994) Mexican, German / Scottish - internet personality, actor, and model.

Michel Duval (1994) Mexican - musician and model.

Beng Zeng (1995) Mexican [Chinese] - actor, comedian, and tv host.

Alen Rios (1995) Mexican, Guatemalan, Chinese, German - actor.

Roman Zaragoza (1996) Mexican, Akimel O’odham / Taiwanese, Japanese - actor.

Ryan Ochoa (1996) brother has said that he is of Mexican descent describing himself as a ��white Mexican” - actor.

Juanpa Zurita (1996) Mexican - model and youtuber.

Jacob Emmanuel Perez (1996) Mexican, African-American - musician.

Jimmy Bennett (1996) ¼ Mexican, ¾ mix of German, English, Scottish, Cornish - actor and musician.

Austin Zajur (1996) Mexican / English, possibly other - actor.

Jamison Long / JJ Long (1997) Afro Mexican, Navajo, Chinese - actor.

Froy Gutierrez (1998) Mexican, Caxcan - actor.

Rico Rodriguez (1998) Mexican - actor.

Ricky Garcia (1999) Mexican, Puerto Rican, German - actor and singer.

Rebel Rodriguez (1999) Mexican / Unknown - actor.

Joel Pimentel (1999) Mexican - singer.

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (2000) Mexican [Nahuatl], Hopi - rapper.

Raymond Ochoa (2001) has said that he is of Mexican descent describing himself as a “white Mexican” - actor.

Prolific The Rapper (?) Lakota Sioux, Mexican, Unspecified European - rapper.

Taylor Zakhar (?) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, possibly other] / Unspecified Middle Eastern - actor.

Rene Orozco / Yaotl Mazahua (?) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] - musician (Aztlan Underground).

Caxo (?) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, possibly other] - musician (Aztlan Underground).

Joe “Peps” (?) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, possibly other] - musician (Aztlan Underground).

Gregory Cruz (?) Mexican, Chiricahua Apache - actor.

Boogat (?) Mexican, Paraguayan - musician.

Olmeca (?) Mexican [Tepehuán, possibly other] - rapper.

Juliocesar Chavez (?) Mexican, Guatemalan - actor.

David Rose (?) Mexican / Choctaw, Cherokee, Irish - musician.

Omar LinX (?) Mexican - rapper.

Victor-E (?) Mexican [Mayan, possibly other] - musician (El Vuh).

Zero (?) Mexican [Mayan, possibly other] - musician (El Vuh).

E-Rise (?) Mexican [Mayan, possibly other] - musician (El Vuh).

Wake Self (?) Mexican [Aztec, Mescalero Apache], Cherokee - rapper.

Randy Granger (?) Mexican [Chontal, Apache, Unspecified Non-Indigenous], Comanche, Tequesta, Tłı̨chǫ, Alaskan Athabaskan - flutist.

Vic Buildsafire (?) Navajo, Pomo, Mexican [Aztec, Spanish] - rapper.

Del Zamora (?) Mexican, Mescalero Apache - actor.

Alex Soto / MC Liaison (?) Mexican [Tohono O’odham] - rapper (Shining Soul).

Franco / The Bronze Candidate (?) Mexican - rapper (Shining Soul).

Ryan Little Eagle (?) Mexican [Apache, Mayan], Taino, Lakota Sioux - musician.

DJ Augustín (?) Mexican - rapper (Cartel de Santa).

Eddie Gutierrez / Eddie Styles (?) Mexican - dancer.

Clap Pina / Clap Freckles (?) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, possibly other] - musician.

Sergio Gomez (?) Mexican - rapper (Akwid).

Francisco Gomez (?) Mexican - rapper (Akwid).

Saso Jimenez / Saso Fresh (?) Mexican - dancer.

Alek Carrera (?) Mexican - model, actor, and producer.

Fermin Sanchez (?) Mexican - musician (The Guadaloops).

Sami Mendoza (?) Mexican - drummer (The Guadaloops).

Ferdinand González (?) Mexican - musician (The Guadaloops).

Berni Pérez (?) Mexican - musician (The Guadaloops).

NB:

Karis Wilde (1982) Mexican - Genderqueer - multi-disciplinary artist.

Pidgeon Pagonis (1986) Mexican, Greek - Non-Binary Intersex - artist and writer.

Danny Noriega / Adore Delano (1989) Mexican, Unspecified Native American, German - Non-Binary - drag queen, actor, singer-songwriter, and youtuber.

Lukas Avendaño (?) Mexican [Zapotec] - Muxe - performing artist.

Mike J. Marin (?) Mexican, Navajo, Laguna, Washoe - Two-Spirit - actor, rapper, and filmmaker.

Problematic:

George Lopez (1961) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish, possibly other] - actor, comedian, and tv personality - anti-black comments, anti-asian comments, and sexist comments.

Salma Hayek (1966) Mexican [Lebanese, Spanish, possibly other] - actress, producer, and former model - spoke over and attempted to rebuke Jessica Williams (a black actress)’s comment that black and trans women are constantly put in the center of conflict for the way they look with a tone deaf “what about the rest of us” and also used the condescending “baby” to refer to Jessica, called Jessica Lopez (a Puerto Rican actress and singer who, while not black, is darker than Salma) a “non-latina n***o”, and said that Ugly Betty (a show Salma is an executive producer on) tries to model Betty off black women (though they even casted a non black Latina for Betty) due to black women having “uglier facial features”.

Louis C.K. (1967) Mexican [Hungarian Jewish / Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous] / Irish, German, English - actor, comedian, writer, producer, director, and editor - accused of 5 counts of sexual assault.

Stacey Dash (1967) Afro Barbadian, Mexican - actress and talk show host - transphobic comments and said that people were overreacting with #OscarsSoWhite.

Cesar Millan (1969) Mexican - dog behaviorist and television personality - controversial dog training techniques.

Reginald Arvizu (1969) Mexican / French, English - musician - cultural appropriation.

Louis Freese / B-Real (1970) Mexican, Cuban - musician - n-word.

Hilary Swank (1974) ¼ Mexican [Shoshone, Spanish], ¾ mix of English, German, Swiss, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Dutch - actress and producer - publicly supports Ramzan Kadyrov and took the role of a trans man character in Boys Don’t Cry when she is not a man (let alone a trans man).

Fergie (1975) English, Irish, Mexican, Unspecified Native American, and Scottish - cultural appropriation.

Gael García Bernal (1978) Mexican - actor, director, and producer - signed Polanski petition and supports Roman Polanski.

Lin-Manuel Miranda (1980) Puerto Rican, as well as small amounts of Mexican, African-American, English - actor, singer-songwriter, and playwright - classist comments.

Adan Canto (1981) Mexican - actor - took the role of an Afro Brazilian character in X-Men: Days of Future Past when he is not Afro Latino.

Melissa Villaseñor (1987) Mexican - actress and comedian - anti-black tweets.

Emeraude Toubia (1989) Mexican / Lebanese - actress and model - appropriated cornrows and participated in the white-washing of her character.

Scout Taylor-Compton (1989) Mexican / English, Irish - actress - cultural appropriation.

Fo Porter (1990) Mexican / African-American - model - cultural appropriation.

Christian Serratos (1990) Mexican / Italian - actress - cultural appropriation.

Samuel Larsen (1991) Mexican, Iranian, Danish, Spanish - actor, singer, and model - cultural appropriation.

Tyler Posey (1991) Mexican / English, Scottish, Irish, German, French - actor and musician - has made coming out of the closet jokes multiple times, used the q slur, and said “I mean, people don’t know what race I am. They never know if I’m Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or White. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.” which implies that he would not mind taking a role of a race not his own.

Selena Gomez (1992) Mexican / Italian, possibly other - actress and singer - cultural appropriation, wore a hijab as a fashion accessory, wore a short with the g slur on it, has used the g slur on multiple occasions (and threw a “[g slur] inspired” birthday party), and supports Woody Allen.

John Elvis (1992) Mexican / Korean - actor - took the role of a Comanche character in Texas Rising when he is not Native American (let alone Comanche).

Demi Lovato (1992) Mexican [Spanish, Unspecified Indigenous, Jewish, Portuguese] / English, Scottish, Irish - singer-songwriter, actress, and author - tried to take the spotlight away from Zendaya getting a black Barbie modeled after her by complaining about the lack of a curvy Barbie and saying she’d be happy to model for it, chose Kim Kardashian to praise for the “Big Butt Movement”, transphobia in her lyrics and in response to Caitlyn Jenner’s looks, exploits bisexuality in her song Cool For The Summer, and appropriated dreadlocks.

JC Caylen (1992) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] - youtuber - made homophobic “gay jokes”.

Camila Cabello (1997) Cuban / Mexican - singer-songwriter - has said “it’s not rape if you like it”, has used the f and n slurs, and trivialized cocaine addiction.

Ethan Cutkosky (1999) Mexican / Polish, English, Scottish, Irish - actor - cultural appropriation.

Samuel Kim Arredondo (2002) Mexican / Korean - singer - cultural appropriation.

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Why Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer is SNL’s Best Sketch of the Year

It’s no secret that Saturday Night Live has grown more and more liberal over the years. Sure, they make fun of Democrats, but they really go after Republicans to the nth degree, certainly during this election cycle. With President Trump in particular, the SNL writers hold nothing back and neither does Alec Baldwin.

But in the latest episode, they found themselves a new target: Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

The result? The best sketch of the year.

It’s a bold statement, especially after months of watching Baldwin channel Trump and Kate McKinnon doing an uncanny Hillary Clinton. But there are two reasons why this sketch in particular was best in the class.

First, it was brilliant satire. Melissa McCarthy captured Spicer’s hostility to the White House press corps. While Spicer in real life isn’t that angry, the sketch pokes fun at what he might want to do like jailing CNN’s Jim Acosta or squirting reporters with a water gun. And his now-iconic way to respond to tough questions was completely spot-on like his bickering with a reporter about who starting using the word “ban”. And like the real daily press briefings, the sketch covered a lot of topics including Steve Bannon, the White House’s statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Trump’s Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos (played briefly by McKinnon). It was a long checklist and this sketch nailed every one of them. And the prop comedy was hysterical (”radical moose lambs” had me crying!).

Second, and most importantly, this was the first political sketch that was funny without having to be malicious. Nearly every sketch involving Trump makes him out to be a racist, a fascist, and an utter moron. Even in the cold open, there were more tiresome jokes that eluded to the president being a Nazi and Steve Bannon literally being the Grim Reaper. But in this sketch, SNL managed to poke fun at Spicer without outrageous personal attacks. The writing was good-natured and disciplined. Even the biggest Trump supporters should be able to laugh out loud at this.

Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer is the greatest impression since Larry David played Bernie Sanders last season and this sketch is on-par with Tina Fey’s debut as Sarah Palin. Bipartisan humor that can have both Democrats and Republicans laughing is the winning strategy. While the odds are still strong that President Trump will angrily tweet about SNL at 3 o’clock in the morning, it’s sketches like this that can make SNL great again.

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Why Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer is SNL’s Best Sketch of the Year

But in the latest episode, they found themselves a new target: Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

The result? The best sketch of the year.

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Because, honestly, after this last week, diving into a world where problems can be solved with magic sounds pretty damn sweet!

So, I’m not going to have much mind-space to write my usual faux-Stan Lee kind of editorializing and rah-rah this week. In fact, I’m pretty much going to skip all that and just post the topics our Monday Meeting crew discussed today:

Black Lives Matter

As much as it shouldn’t need to be said, it does.

The Legendlore Kickstarter starts tomorrow, and we talked a lot about the various Actual Plays that will be showing up on Twitter, including two that are detailed below in the Onyx Path Media section. We’re hoping that folks give them a watch so they can see how the characters and setting interact.

TC: Aberrant art of Bene “Bounty” Manata by GONG Studios

We reviewed the M20 Technocracy Reloaded Kickstarter that ended last Thursday and were really thrilled by pretty much the whole thing, although it ended oddly with a reoccurring glitch on the KS side. Really not much we can do there with the whole “technical difficulties” thing outside our control, as it may well have been out of KSs.

Scion Companion art by Chris Bivins

We reviewed the plans for the Onyx Path Virtual Gaming Convention, which is ready to start on June 12th -14th to “provide fans and players of tabletop roleplaying games with a uniquely online convention experience. Onyx Path Gaming Con will be completely digital and accessible to anyone with a laptop, computer, or cellphone, allowing fans and players of Onyx Path games to connect with one another over their favorite game”. Check out more details below in the Conventions section of the Blurbs.

TC: Aberrant art of Pratima Splash Basham by GONG Studios

We decided to investigate further as to whether there are accessibility issues with some projects.

Aaron Voss continues to get up to speed with our project scheduling set-up, and with getting books to press and out to KS backers and distribution, so there were questions and answers reviewing each of the projects headed to press right now. Since we have added Studio2 as a sales link to distribution and thus into stores, we also now need to be sure that they have the info they need to solicit distributors once books are ready to go on sale.

Titanomachy art by Shen Fei

Tomorrow we have two more Developer Town Hall gatherings, and we reviewed who has indicated they are coming and when. Reminder- it’s your last chance to send me any questions in the Comments that I can ask the attending devs.

TC: Aberrant art of Ricardo Carambola Montoya Bernal by GONG Studios

OK, folks. Please stay safe, and we sincerely hope that this thing we do can provide you a break during these times.

Many Worlds, One Path!

Blurbs!

Kickstarter!

This Tuesday, June 2nd at 2pm Eastern US time, return with us to The Realm of Legendlore!

Grab your friends and escape to another world!

You’ve found an enchanted portal — a transition point — between worlds. The portal, called a Crossing, takes you to a world you thought only existed in novels and films: a magical land where dragons roam the skies, orcs and hobgoblins terrorize weary travelers, and unicorns prance through the forest. It is a world where humans join other peoples such as elves, trolls, dwarves, changelings, and the dreaded creatures who steal the night. It is a world of fantasy — of imagination.

It is the Realm.

It is Legendlore.

Onyx Path Media!

Our crew sit down with all the Exalted creators they can for a no-holds barred Exalted Roundtable! What’s coming for 3rd Edition and Exalted Essence? How soon will Exigents be ready to Kickstart? Answers to these and many, many, other questions to be revealed next Friday!

As always, this Friday’s Onyx Pathcast will be on Podbean or your favorite podcast venue! https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/

This week is all about Legendlore, which is why we’re excited to announce not one, but two Legendlore actual plays commencing this week, with a third starting the week after! You’ll really want to follow us on twitch.tv/theonyxpath and tune in to Friday’s first session run by the game’s developer, Steffie de Vaan, and stick around for the evening slot where Legendlore: Lost in the Crossing commences with character creation.

We’re very excited about all of these actual plays, but let’s highlight Lost in the Crossing for a moment. We’re pleased to announce that Jen Vaughn of Haunted Vault Studios is running this four-part campaign for us, that it’ll take you into some of the real meat of the Legendlore setting, demonstrate a lot of the fun system and world elements of the game, and introduce you to a wonderful assembly of players.

Here’s the crew behind Lost in the Crossing:

Kikka Delarose Pronouns: She/Her Bio: Kikka Delarose is a tabletop player, representation panel coordinator, and creator of A Lonely Haunt RPG ( https://kikka.itch.io/a-lonely-haunt )Twitter handle: @KikkaVO

Teo Acosta Pronouns: He/Him Bio: Teo Acosta is an award winning Cinematographer, Storyboard Artist, and Sequential Artist. He is the co-founder of Haunted Soup Pictures and avid Tabletop Enthusiast! Check out Teo’s comics at http://www.wizardsandcuteshit.com and his other work at http://hauntedsoup.com IG/Twitter: @teo_acosta @HauntedSoupPictures

Logan Timmins Pronouns: He/him Bio: Logan is a queer, Aussie, forest-loving, tattooed, trans NERD. He is passionate about tabletop roleplaying games and the improvised storytelling that they create which is nothing short of magic. Find Logan at: https://breathingstories.itch.io/ & @Ink_And_Stories & @StrikeOut_TTRPG Twitter: @Ink_And_Stories

Bones K. Leopard Pronouns: They/Them Bio: Bones Leopard is a twin and nonbinary writer and artist who currently resides in Los Angeles. Their projects include the twice successful Kickstarter project [SUPER]NATURAL ATTRACTION, and their webcomic MR. HARE & MR.BEAR. In 2018 they successfully funded the kickstarter PANDORA’S BOOK OF MONSTERS which led to writing PANDORA’S LEGACY for BOOM! Studios. Bones is currently working on launching their next webcomic, a D&D based fantasy comic: ReDux this year! Check out their comics work here: https://www.bonesleopard.com/ Twitter: @BonesKLeopard IG: @BonesLeopard

Jen Vaughn Pronouns: She/they Bio: Jen Vaughn is cartoonist and narrative designer for video game company/space cult Very Very Spaceship. She runs a weekly Twitch show on Tuesday nights featuring a new RPG every month on the Big Dun-Jen Show (@bigdunjenshow) and plays D&D with the all-women fam-friendly podcast, d20 Dames (d20dames.com). Find more of her RPG adventures and comics at www.hauntedvaultstudios.com Twitter/IG: @thejenya

On Lost in the Crossing, the intrepid players cross over into East Azoth to discover that fantasy is not all unicorns and sweet mead. They’ll encounter the Garbage Pit of the Children of the Highlands; Earthly relics – that some might called trash – left from previous waves of visitors; help return lost relics to their homes; and learn about the dangerous beauty of the Nightlands lunar cycle all while making friends with the Realmborn people. Will the players be able to make it back to Earth and do they even want to return? Find the answers to all these questions and more on Fridays in June, 7-9pm PT on twitch.tv/theonyxpath

It’s an excellent crew and we’re looking forward to seeing what they have planned!

We shouldn’t depart from our Twitch coverage without highlighting that this week also sees the finale of Changeling: The Lost- Littlebrook Reunion, which Chris (the Primogen) has diligently and excellently ran for us since near enough when we started our Twitch streams in earnest.

Thank you so much, Chris, and see you down the road!

We’ll be back with our YouTube (www.youtube.com/user/theonyxpath) coverage and profiles of other actual plays, reviews, and interviews next week, but before we go, here’s the always amazing Occultists Anonymous with more Mage: The Awakening:

Episode 102: Witching Hour The cabal takes a late night trip to the now-empty cemeteries to investigate who might be behind this and why, then prepare an old-fashioned stakeout… with some magical assistance. https://youtu.be/qJmFpBvGQa8

Episode 103: Lives On The Line Facing off against antagonist Mages, the cabal try to talk with them first, but are quickly drawn into a Duel Arcane with their lives at stake. Red Dread is called in to officiate outside of the bounds of the New York Consilium. https://youtu.be/vcO_wtfh5co

Please check these out and let us know if you find or produce any actual plays of our games! We’d love to feature you!

Electronic Gaming!

As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is awesome! (Seriously, you need to roll 100 dice for Exalted? This app has you covered.)

On Amazon and Barnes & Noble!

You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).

If you enjoy these or any other of our books, please help us by writing reviews on the site of the sales venue from which you bought it. Reviews really, really help us get folks interested in our amazing fiction!

Our selection includes these latest fiction books:

Our Sales Partners!

We’re working with Studio2 to get Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there! https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire

We’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game

Now, we’ve added Changeling: The Lost Second Edition products to Studio2‘s store! See them here: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/all-products/changeling-the-lost

Scion 2e books and other products are available now at Studio2: https://studio2publishing.com/blogs/new-releases/scion-second-edition-book-one-origin-now-available-at-your-local-retailer-or-online

Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/

And you can order Pugmire, Monarchies of Mau, Cavaliers of Mars, and Changeling: The Lost 2e at the same link! And now Scion Origin and Scion Hero and Trinity Continuum Core and Trinity Continuum: Aeon are available to order!

As always, you can find Onyx Path’s titles at DriveThruRPG.com!

On Sale This Week!

This week we dig up the Buried Bones: Creating in the Realms of Pugmire advance PDF! On sale on DriveThruRPG on Wednesday!

Buried Bones is the ultimate guide to creating in the Realms of Pugmire. Whether you’re making your own products for the Canis Minor community content program, want to make your personal Pugmire chronicle as accurate as possible, or are just interested in some of the behind-the-scenes details of the world, Buried Bones is the book to read! It includes:

The writer’s guide shared with all Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau creators

A number of blogs related to the Realms of Pugmire, rewritten for this edition

A handy guide to help people convert material from the 5e OGL to Pugmire or Monarchies of Mau

Answers to frequently asked questions about the lore of the world and the mechanics of the RPGs

Also this Wednesday we will be adding a fantastic new Art Pack for Scion: Hero to the Storypath Nexus Community Content site to add even more amazing and evocative art for your community content projects!

Conventions!

As I mentioned above, we are holding the first-ever Onyx Path Virtual Gaming Convention on June 12th – June 14th!

Onyx Path Virtual Gaming Convention focuses on all our sci-fi, fantasy, and horror tabletop RPG settings and systems. This three-day event will consist of virtual organized game sessions, actual plays of your favorite game lines, and TTRPG industry professional workshops, along with panels featuring audience favorite content creators and game developers. Onyx Path Publishing is partnering with Gehenna Gaming for tabletop RPG fans to connect with each other and industry professionals to explore old favorites or discover new games. Some charity proceeds will go to The Bodhana Group.

Though dates for physical conventions are subject to change due to the current COVID-19 outbreak, here’s what’s left of our current list of upcoming conventions (and really, we’re just waiting for this last one to be cancelled even though it’s Nov/Dec). Instead, keep an eye out here for more virtual conventions we’re going to be involved with:

PAX Unplugged: https://unplugged.paxsite.com/

And now, the new project status updates!

Development Status from Eddy Webb! (Projects in bold have changed status since last week.):

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep.)

Exalted Essay Collection (Exalted)

Adversaries of the Righteous (Exalted 3rd Edition)

The Clades Companion (Deviant: The Renegades)

The Devoted Companion (Deviant: The Renegades)

Saints and Monsters (Scion 2nd Edition)

Dead Man’s Rust (Scarred Lands)

Trinity Continuum: Anima

Redlines

Dragon-Blooded Novella #2 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Hundred Devil’s Night Parade (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Trinity Continuum: Adventure! core (Trinity Continuum: Adventure!)

Novas Worldwide (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Exalted Essence Edition (Exalted 3rd Edition)

M20 Rich Bastard’s Guide To Magick (Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary)

V5 Children of the Blood (was The Faithful Undead) (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

V5 Forbidden Religions (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Wild Hunt (Scion 2nd Edition)

Second Draft

Many-Faced Strangers – Lunars Companion (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)

Dearly Bleak – Novella (Deviant: The Renegades)

Mission Statements (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Contagion Chronicle Ready-Made Characters (Chronicles of Darkness)

Under Alien Suns (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

V5 Trails of Ash and Bone (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Development

TC: Aberrant Reference Screen (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Contagion Chronicle: Global Outbreaks (Chronicles of Darkness)

M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Exigents (Exalted 3rd Edition)

N!ternational Wrestling Entertainment (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Assassins (Trinity Continuum Core)

Manuscript Approval

Crucible of Legends (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Post-Approval Development

Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)

Editing

Lunars Novella (Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Player’s Guide to the Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)

Contagion Chronicle Jumpstart (Chronicles of Darkness)

TC: Aberrant Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Trinity Continuum Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum)

Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)

LARP Rules (Scion 2nd Edition)

Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

The Book of Lasting Death (Mummy: The Curse 2e)

They Came From Beyond the Grave! (They Came From!)

Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)

Post-Editing Development

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

W20 Shattered Dreams Gift Cards (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)

Cults of the Blood Gods (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Hunter: The Vigil 2e core (Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition)

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant core (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)

Monsters of the Deep (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Legendlore core book (Legendlore)

Pirates of Pugmire KS-Added Adventure (Realms of Pugmire)

Tales of Aquatic Terror (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Terra Firma (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

One Foot in the Grave Jumpstart (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e)

Indexing

Art Direction from Mike Chaney!

In Art Direction

Scion Titanomachy

Tales of Aquatic Terror

WoD Ghost Hunters – KS final art: One more piece coming in still.

Aberrant – AD’d.

Hunter: The Vigil 2e

Mummy 2

Deviant – Dividing up among current artists.

Legendlore – Ready for the KS.

Technocracy Reloaded (KS)

Cults of the Blood God – Rolling along.

Scion: Dragon – Waiting on art notes.

Masks of the Mythos – Reviewing art notes and considering artists.

Scion: Demigod – Reviewing art notes.

They Came From Beyond the Grave! (KS) – Art is arting.

TC: Adventure! (KS) – Cover art finishing.

In Layout

Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad

Vigil Watch

TC Aeon Terra Firma

V5 Let the Streets Run Red

Pugmire Adventure

Proofing

Trinity Aeon Jumpstart – New artist taking care of finishing missing art.

Lunars: Fangs at the Gate – Finishing Backer PDF errata.

Contagion Chronicle – Corrections are being input.

Cavaliers of Mars: City of the Towered Tombs

Magic Item Decks (Scarred Lands)

Yugman’s Guide Support Decks (Scarred Lands)

Dark Eras 2 Screen and booklet at Paradox/WW for approval.

At Press

Night Horrors : Nameless and Accursed – PoD proof books were sent to me by the person who received them through a shipping mishap.

Scion Companion – Backer PDF out to backers for errata.

TCFBTS Heroic Land Dwellers – Prepping PoD files.

TCFBTS Screen and Booklet

They Came from Beneath the Sea! – Files at press.

Creature Collection 5e – PoD files uploaded. Tradional files sent to printer.

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While encryption will deter data breaches, it comes with its own baggage — and keys

It is not a question of if the bad actors will access confidential or highly classified data, rather it is a question of can attackers read and use confidential and classified data after they access it. Many experts believe the assumption that attackers eventually will get inside your network and reach private data, but whether they can exfiltrate data or even read it is quite another question.

Data encryption for years has been the go-to security technology to protect the most sensitive data in an organization because it is so effective at stopping cybercriminals from exploiting information assets.

With so much data moving to and from the cloud, a growing number of increasingly sophisticated threats, and new data privacy regulations taking hold, encryption can be found virtually everywhere at many organizations. Today, encryption still holds an honored position as an essential security technology, but as with all such technologies, it is only a matter of time before it becomes as obsolete as the password.

“Encryption has generally been viewed as a foundational technology for protecting sensitive data,” says David Mahdi, senior director, research and advisory, at Gartner Inc. “As such, many industry experts recommend encryption and other data protection technologies to ensure that risk and regulations are accounted for.”

A key question for IT and security executives as they look to bolster defenses with more encryption tools: What impact is the encryption technology having on systems performance and user experience and productivity?

This is not a trivial question. For years, business executives have wondered whether cybersecurity tools would slow down the performance of vital systems and end users have complained about the intrusiveness of these tools as they try to get their work done.

Jason Taule, CSO and CPO, FEI Systems

With encryption, companies ideally want to use the technology on data while it is at rest, in transit, and in memory. But with so much encryption technology in place, there is the potential for it to backfire because of the unintended consequences.

So far, security executives and industry experts say, that has not been the case because the technology has advanced over the years. But that is not to say the encryption everywhere approach is devoid of challenges. Perhaps the most common challenge is the management of keys, which can grow more complex as companies use encryption more broadly.

Building an encrypted infrastructure

“We use encryption pretty much wherever we can because of its ‘get out of jail’ benefit,” says Jason Taule, chief security officer and chief privacy officer at FEI Systems, a company that provides healthcare information services for federal, state, and local governments.

“It basically allows us to make the case that the data was not exposed to risk of harm,” Taule says.

Specifically, FEI Systems uses Transport Layer Security (TLS), a cryptographic protocol designed to provide data privacy and integrity over networks, wherever possible. That includes email exchanges, all data at rest, and as an I/O function of its storage network.

All endpoint devices are whole-disk encrypted, and the company uses BitLocker, a full-volume encryption feature included with Microsoft Windows, to encrypt all removable media devices such as USB drives before any data can be written to these devices.

As a government contractor operating in the healthcare IT industry and subject to many regulations including the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), FEI Systems has been obligated to implement encryption controls since its inception, Taule says.

Acosta Sales and Marketing Co., a full-service sales, marketing and services business, uses encryption everywhere except in legacy applications, according to John David Frymier, Acosta’s CISO.

That includes in the companies network-attached storage (NAS) and storagearea network (SAN) systems, as well as in all data center servers. In addition, the mobile device management (MDM) platform Acosta uses encrypts all the contents of mobile devices, and the company uses BitLocker whole-disk encryption on its PCs.

The company’s web sites and its remote access system use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to encrypt communications. “Everything going to and from and stored with our cloud service providers is encrypted,” Frymier says.

Acosta has steadily increased its use of encryption over the past 10 or so years, ue to a combination of contributing factors.

Privacy laws

One of the biggest factors, as with FEI Systems, is the increase in data privacy laws. For example, data privacy legislation passed in Massachusetts in 2009, 201 CMR 17.00, made mandatory the encryption of in-storage personal data about state residents.

The company also needed to comply with industry-specific security regulations such as Graham-Leach-Bliley Act (also known as the Financial Modernization Act of 1999) and HIPAA, as well as contractual requirements such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) rules. These laws and regulations have not only driven adoption of encryption within organizations, but encouraged hardware and software vendors to embed encryption in their products, Frymier says.

According to the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), “Encryption is easy. Key management is hard. Really hard.” The accompanying graphic displays National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) vision of the encryption key management lifecycle. Managing keys is a lot more than just storing them in a secure file and pulling one out when you need it. These literally could be the keys to your most valuable intellectual property. Understanding encryption key lifecycle management is one of the cornerstones of cybersecurity.

Another factor in the rise of encryption use was the implementation of encryption algorithms in chips, which made it more cost effective to use encryption and removed much of the performance impact, Frymier says.

Acosta’s use of encryption is not having any ill effects on systems performance or user experience, Frymier says. “It used to, but these days with hardware support, generally faster CPUs, and networks all around, the performance impact is not human noticeable,” he notes. “From an end-user perspective, most of them don’t even realize it’s there.”

More and more organizations are relying on a zero trust model in which the “encrypt everything” approach is used to verify identities, provision entitlements to services, and protect data stored in and moving to and from the cloud, says Ariel Silverstone, managing partner and former vice president of security strategy, privacy and trust at GoDaddy, an Internet domain registrar and web-hosting company. Silverstone is also a member of the SC Media Editorial Advisory Board.

Regulations, especially those that address data breaches, make the use of encryption a “no-brainer,” Silverstone says. “Often that is the only option above liability when an organization is breached,” he says.

Go Daddy increased its use of encryption throughout the organization, especially for the transmission of sensitive and personal data, but also to “pre-expire” datasets. “We do that so on a specific date the data stored will become irretrievable,” and therefore no longer subject to data protection requirements of regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws, Silverstone says.

Ariel Silverstone, managing partner, former vice president of security strategy, privacy and trust, GoDaddy

The technology is nothing like it was years ago in terms of affecting system performance, Silverstone says. “About 30 years ago, when I designed client systems, encryption used to have up to 75 percent cost of CPU and of memory time,” he says. “Nowadays, we are approaching 0.5 percent and thus, not material.”

Dealing with challenges

User experience is not really effected by encryption either, Silverstone says. Encryption, and in particular digital certificates, “remain one of the only technologies out there which allow truly massive deployment, authentication, and authorization resources,” he says. While the growing use of encryption might not be having an adverse impact on system performance or worker productivity, it is not without challenges. One of the biggest is managing keys.

“I don’t mean to trivialize the algorithmic side of cryptology, but at the end of the day it’s just a repetitive dance with a bunch of bits,” Frymier says. What is operationally difficult about encryption is managing the keys, he says.

Consider this scenario: A company has an encrypted database sitting on an encrypted SAN, which is backed up by an encrypted archive system. If this database contains financial information that is used to file tax returns, for example, the company needs to hang onto it for seven years.

John David Frymier, CISO, Acosta Sales & Marketing

“That’s three sets of keys and three different management systems you have to keep straight for that period of time,” Frymier says. The company also needs to keep the keys secure. And while commercially available encryption has made general adoption much easier, each vendor has its own key management system.

“So people have to be trained, well trained, in how to do that,” Frymier says. “Otherwise, you can lose control of your own data.”

Key generation and use also need to be non-trivial. For instance, if a company’s web presence involves hundreds of internet-facing servers performing a variety of tasks, it might seem operationally efficient for them to all have the same SSL key.

“However, if one of those servers gets compromised and the private key exposed, the traffic to all the rest could be in jeopardy,” Frymier says. Each organization needs to find its happy medium in key management, which balances the risk of compromise against the cost of operations.

FEI Systems also has found key management to be a hurdle, including the creation, maintenance, and recovery of keys, as well as password and key communication for encrypted attachments.

For instance, to decrypt an encrypted disk when a user leaves the company or if a password/key is lost, FEI needs to create and store a recovery key. Backup compatibility is another issue. Backups of data that is already encrypted at rest requires backups of keys, Taule says. This is more complex than backing up unencrypted data and then encrypting it with the backup software, he says.

Then there is also the challenge of managing keys for cloud encryption, which some vendors do not provide.

To address these issues, the company relies on centralized key administration and is increasingly leveraging the encryption capabilities of the underlying operating systems it uses, Taule says.

Another challenge is that encryption can affect different applications, such as databases, in different ways.

“The affect varies based on the nature, platform, architecture, and design of the application, which is why whenever possible we seek to implement encryption in the underlying infrastructure rather than solely within the application/ database,” Taule says.

David Mahdi, senior director, Research & Advisory, Gartner Inc.

In a database, encrypting the entire platform is substantially different than encrypting certain cells, Silverstone adds. “Similar differences occur with other use cases,” he says. “Encryption used properly is a useful tool. Used improperly, it can present enormous costs and even prevent a system from operating.”

Some applications cannot handle encrypted data, since encryption changes the format of the data, Mahdi says. For example, credit cards use mostly numbers, and the process of encryption turns the data into long strings of text. In many cases, applications that rely on this data, such as databases and customer resource management (CRM), cannot store the encrypted data.

Furthermore, data cannot be encrypted at all times, which leaves it exposed. When organizations want to analyze their sensitive data, they have to unencrypt it, Mahdi says. As a result, the data is exposed for the duration of the analysis.

“This can problematic, as in today’s environment a number of analytic and business intelligence tools are spread across a number of silos,” including cloud services, Mahdi says. The time spent encrypting and unencrypting can add a lot of processing time, and potentially unintended exposure of data.

Organizations can help address this by deploying a layered security approach using a number of security tools such as encryption key management products that offer lifecycle management of the encryption keys; data access governance products that bring a layer of management down to the data itself by allowing security leaders to build policies around unstructured files and folders; and identity and access management software that manage the accounts and access of users.

A Growing Market

One question certainly on the minds of security executives is how well current encryption technology will deal with emerging security threats and those forms of attack that still lurk in the imagination of cybercriminals but have yet to become a reality.

To be sure, there is still plenty of demand for encryption technologies and likely will be for years to come.

Gartner has seen an uptick in inquiries from organizations about encryption, including where and when it should be applied. “In fact, we are starting to hear more clients use the term ‘data-centric security,’” Mahdi says.

The firm’s research identifies a number of factors that are creating a groundswell of activity in the market, he continues. One of these is ongoing migrations to cloud computing services.

“Clients are now moving to the cloud much more aggressively” to ensure business agility, among a variety of other reasons, Mahdi says.

Another big driver, as cited by the organizations using encryption broadly, are data privacy regulations. In particular, GDPR continues to cause many organizations to re-evaluate their stance on data security and whether they need to encrypt more data.

“Larger regulations, such as GDPR, have had a substantial impact on the behavior of not only organizations, but also service providers and vendors,” Mahdi says.

While GDPR is focused on the European Union (EU) citizens and companies outside of Europe that handle the personal information of EU citizens, a lot of vendors and service providers recognize that the EU is a large market. “As such, many have or are in the process of adjusting their product roadmaps to account for data and privacy protection technologies and techniques that allow them to adhere to GDPR,” Mahdi says.

The reality is that GDPR will have a global impact and will influence other countries and jurisdictions with respect to data and privacy protection, according to Mahdi.

And a third key factor is that breaches and cybersecurity are now board-level issues at a lot of organizations. Senior executives appear far more willing to spend more on data protection, including encryption. This likely is due, in part, to recent laws that make board members and senior executives potentially liable in cases of data breaches.

As a result of all of this, Gartner predicts that through 2024 more than 60 percent of enterprises will purchase enterprisewide encryption products, up from the fewer than 20 percent in 2018.

Like other aspects of data security, the market has experienced new entrants promising superior ways of encryption using alternate or newer technologies. Examples of such technologies include keyless encryption, hardware-based runtime encryption using the enclave model, multi-party compute, or blockchain.

On the Horizon

Looking ahead toward future challenges, the advent of quantum computing threatens to defeat current encryption methodologies, Taule says. Because of this, his company is investing in privileged account management tools that allow it to use encryption keys with greater bit lengths and increased entropy. It plans to deploy those by next year.

Eventually, FEI Systems will need to start thinking about elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC), Taule says. ECC is an approach to public-key encryption based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. It requires smaller keys compared with cryptography that does not involve elliptic curves to provide equivalent security.

Elliptic curves can be used for key agreement, digital signatures, and other tasks, and can be used for encryption by combining a key agreement with a symmetric encryption scheme. But Taule says the use ECC for encryption is still years away.

For his part, Frymier is not concerned about encryption’s inability to take on the latest security threats and those that will emerge in the future. “If you have a properly implemented encryption system and you keep your keys secure, it’s pretty immune to compromise — from new or old security threats,” he says.

Modern public key encryption derives its security from the difficulty of factoring a large number into two prime numbers, Frymier says. Some conspiracy theorists think the U.S. National Security Administration (NSA) has solved this problem and can break any encryption.

“Personally, I don’t believe that,” Frymier says. “Others argue that quantum computers will make short work of our ‘modern encryption.’ I’ll start worrying about that when quantum computers become more than a gleam in a theorist’s eye.”

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