In the history of humankind, a few cultures were more closely tied to the occult than all others. Ancient India is one of these cultures. For today’s lore, we’ll look into a few texts discussing this in-universe. In this text, we’ll dive straight into the possibility, that at some point a cult devoted to the Elder Gods existed and even found acceptance among the mundane people. Of course, a heavily distorted version of it, as the truth is poisonous to the human mind.
In the history of humankind, a few cultures were more closely tied to the occult than all others. Ancient India is one of these cultures. For today’s lore, we’ll look into a few texts discussing this in-universe. For this first one, we’ll look at the concept of Akasha, and what it could mean for a world where multidimensional beings, spanning both vast reaches of time and space, exist.
Alright, this will be something a little bit different, but I want to talk about a specific work today — The Eye of Argon. A game that’s The Room of fantasy literature. It’s quite something, in that it is terrible in ways that might illuminate you as to ways in which writing can be terrible. So today, we’ll look at the structure of the work and the first chapter.
There are three questions people keep asking, and I feel I should write down answers for them. These questions are not stupid in their own right, but they are the kind of question that only makes sense if you don’t think about the answer. So, if you are reading this by some chance, you might want to check if you can figure out what the answer might be before reading mine. This article might also be one of the shortest ones I’ll write.
Let’s take a moment to talk about information-based games. In a way, every game is based on information. The input of sensory experiences that is then transformed into output controlling the game. I want to narrow what I mean a bit, to get away from that. For this article, let’s focus on information in terms of domain knowledge about the internal world of the game. It’s not knowledge of the simulation but a simulation of knowledge about the simulation’s object.
The matters of the “soul” or the “being” of a human, their manifestation within the dreaming world, is of great importance to mages. Here the author considers the matter of death and dreams. Are humans nigh-immortal in their dreams because their mind cannot comprehend the true nature of death?
The matters of the “soul” or the “being” of a human, their manifestation within the dreaming world, is of great importance to mages. In this text, the author questions if the soul is really where the agency of a human resigns, or perhaps there is something more to it, that humanity does not yet grasp.
There was a time when the Secretum was deeply interwoven with the Catholic Church, to this day, the guild’s HQ remains located in the Vatican, or at least dimensionally adjacent to it. Older texts sometimes present themselves as religious and it was indeed common for mages of the past to be religious… though the god they worshipped was not exactly the same god as Christianity’s. Note that this text is annotated by a much later author.
Not everything that acts like a ghost and haunts people is actually a ghost, sometimes there are other creatures that act in much the same way. The presented incident could look like a ghost haunting or some kind of demonic curse, when presented to a Norma, but to mages the supernatural is a matter of science, not superstition. Magical practices are even regulated by law, to at least reduce the number of dangerous events such as this.
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