Basically, I got Imperial Mysteries for the Mage the Awakening line when it came out, and it. Is. Fracking. Awesome.
One of the antagonist factions, the Aswadim (Scelesti archmages-think of them as sympathetic Nephandi) really captured my imagination, though, and I was inspired to create a BBEG based on them (or is one, if I ever run an Imperial chronicle), and like all cerebral bad guys, they have a motive rant wherein they explain their point of view. And before you ask, this is an idea for Pb P, so no Genre Savvy sneak attacks.
Basically, I wanted to show a semi-rational reason for serving Alien Horrors From Beyond reality, made by a somewhat sane man. Here it is:
[i]"The Dark is vast and varied. A force that is both agency and lack thereof, born from both an absence of light and the secrets contained therein.
"Small minds, whether out of lacking understanding or the bravery to admit their inability to seek it, call the Dark 'evil' or 'wicked', but their ignorance shows itself. Those initiated into the shadow of the world know that the Dark is simply the Dark-wicked and evil things hide therein, but also innocence escaping prosecution, or solutions to problems caused by those living in the light, hidden through no fault of it's own.
"The Void is little different. Those aware of it's existence call it 'unclean' or 'alien', but to ones as enlightened as we are, we understand this to not be true. The Void is simply a realm containing that which this awful, diseased world of Law has rendered impossible, whether it be plagues or medicines, curses or blessings, demons or angels.
"What sages call the 'world' is nothing less then the enslavement of a realm of energy and will to an abnormal, banal reality that crushes all possibilities and renders those caught within unable to live to their full potential. This 'Prison of Forms' shall eventually destroy itself under the weight of it's own cruelty and apathy, but the suffering caused by it's downfall will be everlasting, lest it be euthanized for it's own benefit.
"For to truly alleviate the suffering of the cosmos, one must dissolve the false concepts of Order and Chaos, Being and Unbeing, and create a universe where the only suffering is what one needs to define him, as a master of everything and nothing. War, division, loneliness-none will occur unless it be permitted by the new humanity, and then only until they tire of it.
"Such is the nature of Utopia-for as the term implies, the world will only be perfect when there is no world, but what we make from the dance of Formlessness, as then all who desire a world of their own may have it, and those who do not agree may leave, and allow their fellows the paradise they have summoned.
"Wouldn't you agree, my rivals?"[/i]
So...good? Any revisions that would make it better, for what I'm trying to accomplish (a person who made the decision, based on the evidence, that remaking humanity into Old Ones is the smart idea)?
Basically, I got Imperial Mysteries for the Mage the Awakening line when it came out, and it. Is. Fracking. Awesome.
One of the antagonist factions, the Aswadim (Scelesti archmages-think of them as sympathetic Nephandi) really captured my imagination, though, and I was inspired to create a BBEG based on them (or is one, if I ever run an Imperial chronicle), and like all cerebral bad guys, they have a motive rant wherein they explain their point of view. And before you ask, this is an idea for Pb P, so no Genre Savvy sneak attacks.
Basically, I wanted to show a semi-rational reason for serving Alien Horrors From Beyond reality, made by a somewhat sane man. Here it is:
[i]"The Dark is vast and varied. A force that is both agency and lack thereof, born from both an absence of light and the secrets contained therein.
"Small minds, whether out of lacking understanding or the bravery to admit their inability to seek it, call the Dark 'evil' or 'wicked', but their ignorance shows itself. Those initiated into the shadow of the world know that the Dark is simply the Dark-wicked and evil things hide therein, but also innocence escaping prosecution, or solutions to problems caused by those living in the light, hidden through no fault of it's own.
"The Void is little different. Those aware of it's existence call it 'unclean' or 'alien', but to ones as enlightened as we are, we understand this to not be true. The Void is simply a realm containing that which this awful, diseased world of Law has rendered impossible, whether it be plagues or medicines, curses or blessings, demons or angels.
"What sages call the 'world' is nothing less then the enslavement of a realm of energy and will to an abnormal, banal reality that crushes all possibilities and renders those caught within unable to live to their full potential. This 'Prison of Forms' shall eventually destroy itself under the weight of it's own cruelty and apathy, but the suffering caused by it's downfall will be everlasting, lest it be euthanized for it's own benefit.
"For to truly alleviate the suffering of the cosmos, one must dissolve the false concepts of Order and Chaos, Being and Unbeing, and create a universe where the only suffering is what one needs to define him, as a master of everything and nothing. War, division, loneliness-none will occur unless it be permitted by the new humanity, and then only until they tire of it.
"Such is the nature of Utopia-for as the term implies, the world will only be perfect when there is no world, but what we make from the dance of Formlessness, as then all who desire a world of their own may have it, and those who do not agree may leave, and allow their fellows the paradise they have summoned.
"Wouldn't you agree, my rivals?"[/i]
So...good? Any revisions that would make it better, for what I'm trying to accomplish (a person who made the decision, based on the evidence, that remaking humanity into Old Ones is the smart idea)?
edited 11th Jan '12 2:57:49 PM by Leliel
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