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Type 1 Conceptual Manipulation
More specifically for Deathsongs and the like. After taking another look at the explanation we're given for Deathsongs, it seemed to me that it fits the criteria for Type 1:
This would affect anyone who can use Deathsongs, anyone who resists them, and I guess anyone who can affect those with resistance.
Nonduality for Light and Darkness
After the Type 5 Acausality revisions, I figured I might as well get this one out of the way. I believe the Light and Darkness qualify for Type 1, Aspect 2 Nonduality.
For the game that is existence, the Light and Darkness are separate from the rest of the rules and can't be compromised by them. This is further shown in the fact that Sword Logic, another flavor of Darkness, isn't bound by, and can kill, axioms that determine reality.
And the Deathsongs I mentioned earlier were derived from the Song of Life, which in turn is merely a fragment of the song of the Traveler (the Gardener), an agent of the Light.
Conclusion
Thank you for your time.
Agree: @deonment, @ShakeResounding, @Setsuna_tenma, @Eseseso, @G33kedzinx, @Iamunanimousinthat, @Planck69, @DarkDragonMedeus, @Spectra_Schiffer, @Theglassman12
Disagree:
Neutral:
Type 1 Conceptual Manipulation
More specifically for Deathsongs and the like. After taking another look at the explanation we're given for Deathsongs, it seemed to me that it fits the criteria for Type 1:
| The song is death. To hear it is to die. To know the words is mortal. Oh, good point, Eriana, death is just a word, isn't it? A catch-all term for the failure to go on, nothing spiritual, nothing with its own quiddity. We all died once, and it did not prove insurmountable. But what if what if what if, shhh listen, what if death were reified, described in its totality, made autonomous and universal, separate from any context or condition? What if She could invoke the ending of anything? - source |
This would affect anyone who can use Deathsongs, anyone who resists them, and I guess anyone who can affect those with resistance.
Nonduality for Light and Darkness
After the Type 5 Acausality revisions, I figured I might as well get this one out of the way. I believe the Light and Darkness qualify for Type 1, Aspect 2 Nonduality.
| "A special new rule. Something to…" The gardener threw up their hands in exasperation. "I don't know. To reward those who make space for new complexity. A power that helps those who make strength from heterodoxy, and who steer the game away from gridlock. Something to ensure there's always someone building something new. It'll have to be separate from the rest of the rules, running in parallel, so it can't be compromised. And we'll have to be very careful, so it doesn't disrupt the whole game…" - source |
| "And thus we two became parts of the game, and the laws of the game became nomic and open to change by our influence. And I had only one purpose and one principle in the game. And I could do nothing but continue to enact that purpose, because it was all that I was and ever would be." - source |
For the game that is existence, the Light and Darkness are separate from the rest of the rules and can't be compromised by them. This is further shown in the fact that Sword Logic, another flavor of Darkness, isn't bound by, and can kill, axioms that determine reality.
| "You have written eleven axioms describing the ascendant places, our throne world. You have announced that you will kill one of these axioms, as Akka would kill the truth, and in mantling Akka you will become a God, as I am." - source |
| "Listen, Anûk Anûk, who favors bitter things Of the eleven axioms, choose one Of the chosen, spare none Upon Eir’s attendance, say Come, Eir, look This truth is dead" - source |
And the Deathsongs I mentioned earlier were derived from the Song of Life, which in turn is merely a fragment of the song of the Traveler (the Gardener), an agent of the Light.
| "SONG OF LIFE The Song was not always a corruption. It began as a gift, stolen from the Gardener. In efforts to understand the unknowable realities of the orb's incredible gifts, a signal was found—a repeating tune, the Song of Creation. Its frequencies were heard across the stars, wherever life's promise took hold. Some among the Ammonites worshipped it. Some among the Hive did the same. Still others sought to understand it that they might cage it, that they might control it—for to control life is to control death. Such ambition was not new; such ambition was as old as understanding. The melody was captured and studied. The frequencies replicated. But the orb's mysteries were not so easily brought to light. The Song, for all its beauty, did not alone grant life. It was theorized that the Song was not a song at all, but many. That within its refrain, untold rhythms spoke their own truths, free and clear of the whole. Centuries passed. The Song remained untamed. Life moved on. SONG OF DEATH The Choir formed in celebration of the Song. Performances marked the passage of seasons. But the Song's lie eventually began to corrupt the spirit of those who heard its tune. The melody was a reminder. The orb was a catalyst. And the Song was of the orb. Yet, those who embraced the Song were merely instruments and nothing more. Life remained beyond their grasp, while they remained ever in death's. Those of the Choir had given all of themselves. All was not enough. The First Conductor was assassinated by one who sang an Aria of her own making. She, whose name has been stricken, had found notes hidden in the frequencies. Reversed and mirrored in pitch, she weaved them together and sang her beautiful abomination, until the Conductor wept and bled and screamed and fell. The Stricken fled, fearful of her crime. But others found promise anew in her art. The Stricken was captured and subjected to inquisition so that her song might be understood. This was before Understandings—before most things—when the first notes of a new Song were written." - source |
Conclusion
- Type 1 Conceptual Manipulation for characters that use the power of Deathsongs, Resistance to this for the appropiate characters, and Type 1 Conceptual Manipulation for characters that can affect those with Resistance.
- Nonduality Type 1, Aspect 2 for the Light and Darkness.
Thank you for your time.
Agree: @deonment, @ShakeResounding, @Setsuna_tenma, @Eseseso, @G33kedzinx, @Iamunanimousinthat, @Planck69, @DarkDragonMedeus, @Spectra_Schiffer, @Theglassman12
Disagree:
Neutral:
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