Lord Entropy is an Excrucian who rebelled against the others.
He has The World-Breaker's Hand, he and his servants seek to destroy almost everything they touch, and he has some special insight into the Excrucians that others lack. His eyes are jet black, but have no stars, because unlike the other Excrucians, he has not consumed any parts of Creation.- Sure, but that World-Breaker's Hand costs him 15 character points. 9 for Aspect, 21 for Domain(+14 for two secondary domains), 18 for Realm, 15 for Spirit, 6 for Immortal, 2 for 2 additional DMP's and 15 for World Breaker's Hand comes up to exactly 100 points, which is his listed total character cost. He'd have a discount if he were an Excrucian(I think, not one hundred percent sure on that one). Besides, it's a very appropriate power for an Imperator of Destruction.
- In third edition they don't get a discount on the Hand, though.
Agusta Valentine, the writer of A Philosophy Of Treason, was the Power of Love.
Lord Entropy outlawed Love not for any ideological reason, but simply as a punishment of the Power who had written such a heavily-suppressed book. Outside The Wall, Unearthly Nobles practice Reverse High Summoning, and call beings from inside of Creation to them.
Superstes Zupay was such a Reverse Summoner, and gained such power that, upon her death, her soul fled inside the Wall, to begin life anew. The Doctor is the Power of Time.
- The author of Nobilis actually statted the Doctor up as the Power of Hope
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Nobles are not granted actual miraculous abilities - Imperators simply make them think they are in order to watch their reactions.
Zeno was briefly replaced by an Excrucian Deceiver similar to Iolithae Septiman.
However, they didn't have the actual power to destroy all motion and space and time in a few paradoxes, so they just sort of confused everyone instead. And the Quantum Zeno Effect happened. The majority of SCP entities are caused by the wider reality of Nobilis
Possibilities:- SCP-682 is an Actual who craves death. Being an Actual, it can never *get* death and thus its only desire is to kill others to feed its impossible desire to understand death. The problem is, something made 682 too tough for most Powers to take on, so they dumped the job of keeping it "contained" on you-know-who.
- Many weird but relatively harmless SCPs are Treasures which were anchored to a now-dead Power.
- Many dangerous SCPs are the result of "leftovers" when Excrucians destroyed or absorbed Estates.
- The conflicting nature of the various SCPs is due to the fact that the "science" the Foundation tries to apply to SCPs is merely a framework for Prosaic Earth and thus is granted a warped view of entities which can only exist outside of Prosaic Reality.
- The Foundation itself is a branch of the Cammorae, and/or the Cammorae is behind one or more of the groups that oppose the Foundation.
- Reality Warpers are Powers that were too careless about Dimentia Animus, and thus were unknowingly stripped of just enough of their power to be left to the Foundation's machinations by the Noble community.
Young Wizards is based on hearsay of happenings in the world of Nobilis of mortals who got involved with magic unexpectedly, and had close calls.
The facts:
- "The Powers That Be"? That can't be a coincidence.
- "The Lone Power", who created entropy and death, is quite clearly Lord Entropy.
- Dark Manhattan greatly resembles the Cityback.
Storybrooke was created by hijacking an abandoned chancel and bringing it back to its original location in the woods of Maine.
The Dark Curse, which requires the crushing of the heart of that which you love most, is a mortal-achievable counterpart to the 100 murders an Imperator uses to create a chancel. Speaking of hearts, a Noble's heart contains their ties to their estate, making the defeat of a Noble dependent on tearing their heart out of their chest.Also, if True Love's Kiss can break any curse, Lord Entropy would obviously want it outlawed.
3e is not the entirety of canon. There are other versions of Creation which may or may not have a World Ash.
...and some of them, like 2nd Edition Nobilis are pretty nasty pieces of work.
