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This is mostly just some issues I have with the justifications of some of the tiers on the Caine, Mage and Lilith profile. Most of the scans are severely lacking to say the least, the fact that a lot of the scans seem to be cropped out of context is also an issue and should be fixed.


4-C: The justification for this tier is that he is equal to early Lilith who plucked stars from her cloak, but as you can see from the scan it's obviously not talking about literal stars since she creates a normal sized flora from them and it is an obvious metaphor for stars and not literal stars.

High 4-C: This justification is for the size of Caine who his eyes are said to be as big as the su which again obvious metaphor it's making the analogy that Caine watches over the Kindred just as an all shining eye and again is in no way shape or form talking about that Caine's eye is a literal sun.

Low 2-C: The mage being able to destroy a timeline is in the context of destroying a timeline using time travel, not destroying a timeline using AP. Pretty sure this doesn't qualify for for a universe+ rating.

Low 2-C: The justification for this tier is that Lasombra is one with the Abyss, which not only does the narrator himself say that this is just a theory, it also says that he isn't even all that the Abyss is, rather that he will "eventually" become one with it, so I don't see how even if this is true how Caine should scale to something that isn't even happened or that might never happen. Also in the other scan it says that the Void is infinite not the Abyss you would need to show that they are the same thing on this as well.

Low 1-C: The justification for this is that an Archmaster can affect the Tellurium, which in the scan itself it just says that the Archmaster can see all the outcomes and watch the lines that influence all Patterns and the eventual end of being. Not only does it not even say that he can affect it this is justification for precog and fate manipulation at best, not a low 1-C feat. There is a sca here that says that a guy named Robert Davenport is caught in an 8 dimensional chess game of subterfuge, terrorism and extradimensional alliances and if this is the only justification for 8D universe it's kinda flimsy if you ask me but that's neither here nor there. And lastly that he can kill angels which in the scan it literally says the words "or it could be another metaphor" and that it might not even be one of God's angels to begin with.


The speed justifications are pretty bad as well. It says that Mages can travel in a Void outside of time and space, not only is that not Immeasurable speed it also says that they "sailed" and proceeds to say that they the "Technocratic Void Engineers dressed in bulky suits and armors" which implies that they used some kind of machines not actual running speed.
 
>4-C: The justification for this tier is that he is equal to early Lilith who plucked stars from her cloak, but as you can see from the scan it's obviously not talking about literal stars since she creates a normal sized flora from them and it is an obvious metaphor for stars and not literal stars.

Actually, no, as the cloak was stated to be the night sky itself, so no, they are literal stars.

>High 4-C: This justification is for the size of Caine who his eyes are said to be as big as the suwhich again obvious metaphor it's making the analogy that Caine watches over the Kindred just as an all shining eye and again is in no way shape or form talking about that Caine's eye is a literal sun.

No, no, it's not, and I recommend you don't talk about that which you do not know about with such a tone, because you obviously know nothing about the subject, the Eye of Caine is a literal Star that shows up during Gehenna, you'd know if you bothered to read the book where it talks about this that the Star of Caine is the source of the Wormwood Curse, which is killing all the Vampires, not watching over them.

>Low 2-C: The mage being able to destroy a timeline is in the context of destroying a timeline using time travel, not destroying a timeline using AP. Pretty sure this doesn't qualify for for a universe+ rating.

I'm not sure what's hard to understand about:

"Where less-advanced mages can only undo actions leading directly up to the present, a Master may choose any moment in her subject's timeline and destroy everything after it,..."

>Low 1-C: Snip

No, again, don't comment on something you know nothing about and then try to contest something that you don't know about, Patterns in WoD are the things that make up everything.

They're basically a personalized concept which is always on you, everything has a Pattern, Spiders, Dragons, The Wall, a house etc.

Everything has a pattern, including Realms, continue the scaling. Boom.

Also, the book says it "MIGHT" be a metaphor, however, the first option is that it's not a metaphor, because, for one, it's not narrating, this isn't a story and the DM isn't at the table, it's giving the DM things they could do for their campaign.

Also, what do you mean "Not an angel of God", there's only the Angels of God, there is no other sort of Angel, again, don't make claims like this when you know nothing about the verse, it's only insulting and spreads around mis-information.

And for the speed thing, you missed a lot out there, like the fact that the Void is outside the concepts of Time, Space, Dimension, Existence.

And the part about the Void Engineers wearing suits, yeah, cool, that's literally for them, Traditional Mages, just called Mages, don't wear them, ya da, so they don't need a suit.

>This is mostly just some issues I have with the justifications of some of the tiers on the Caine,Mage and Lilith profile. Most of the scans are severely lacking to say the least, the fact that a lot of the scans seem to be cropped out of context is also an issue and should be fixed.

Okay, 1. Prove their out of context

2. No, they're not, and this statement is nothing more than a parroting of a anti-WoD stance which should burn in a bonfire, to which the creator of the stance had to drop it because he couldn't back up his claims like you cannot back up yours, since everything I post is with context in tact, it's just that you don't like what you see and try to find some random tag to post on it and say "Improve or else" which is tiring, since WoD has some of the most reasons for being at it's tier than most other verses.
 
Scans of this?

Scans of this as well?

It literally said that it destroyed the timeline because he made changes to the past not AP, so no.

Scans of this, and even if that's true that's reality warping at worst and concept manipulation at best.

Headcanon isn't accept on this wiki.

That still isn't Immeasurable speed, and scans that they can do it with sheer speed as well would be nice.

The very nature that they are usually just 1 sentence scans alludes to that.

Glad to see you're still not above petty personal insults.This wasn't even bashing or being anti WoD at all it was just about the horrible justifications on the profiles. I never said it is or isn't like that, I said that if it is like it says you should back it up because on their own is not enough.
 
L>Scans of this?

Read the original scan, she literally says she drapes the gown over the lands and plucks stars from it.

>Scans of this as well?

Again, read the Original scan.

>It literally said that it destroyed the timeline because he made changes to the past not AP, so no.

It literally doesn't, I quoted the scan in question, do not lie to me about my own scans.

>Headcanon isn't accept on this wiki.

It's a good job it's not headcannon then.

>That still isn't Immeasurable speed, and scans that they can do it with sheer speed as well would be nice.

Yes, it is, see the Void (World of Warcraft) and many others, moving in a Void outside the concepts of Time and Space is Immeasurable, at least.

>The very nature that they are usually just 1 sentence scans alludes to that.

None of the scans we are talking about are 1 sentence scans, and this is another lie.

>Glad to see you're still not above petty personal insults.

I never insulted you, so you might want to get off that High horse of yours.

>This wasn't even bashing or being anti WoD at all it was just about the horrible justifications on the profiles.

Literally wasn't what I said, I said your stance is the same stance taken by those who are Anti-WoD.

Might not want to strawman me next time.

> I never said it is or isn't like that, I said that if it is like it says you should back it up because on their own is not enough.

And I never said the contrary.
 
Scan on its own is just flowery language.

Same.

"Time mages can only undo actions leading directly up to the present, a Master can choose any moment in her subject's timeline and destroy everything after it, sending the subject's present self back in time to the moment of the mage's choosing. The subject arrives in the past at the specified time, inhabiting his own past body and is free to act, changing history by his actions, although the distortions to his timeline are visible under Active Time Mage Sight. He remains in the past for a time equal to Corridors of Time's Duration factor, or until hi "cathes up" to the present. Once in the present, the new timeline sets and any changes the subject made to history become Lasting."

Congradulations you have just described time travel, however this is not a justification for a tier rating.

Using your own interpretation on something so vague without any evidence whatsoever is what headcanon is.

" Infinite Speed (Able to move indefinitely while time literally stands still, or to travel anywhere instantly. Teleportation does not count. For further information, see note 4 below.) "

"Immeasurable (Movement beyond linear time. This is why the speed cannot be measured. Given that S = D/T, if T is undefined the speed formula cannot be applied. This is the same reason why multiple temporal dimensions also grant immeasurable speed. For further information, see note 5 below.) "


What the scans show is infinite speed at best.

Literally the first scan is one sentence.
 
>Scan on its own is just flowery language.

No, it's not, you have to prove that it's flowery language, to which it's not. The Burden of Proof is on you.

>Same.

No.

>Congradulations you have just described time travel, however this is not a justification for a tier rating.

Absolutely disgraceful behavour, firstly, I disapprove of lying to people, because what you just did there was lying.

Firstly, the first line of the paragraph is:

"Where less-advanced Time Mages can only undo actions leading directly up to the present, a Master may choose any moment in her subject's timeline and destroy everything after it,..."

https://imgur.com/4pVDZn3

The first line is not: "Time mages can only undo actions leading directly up to the present, a Master can choose any moment in her subject's timeline and destroy everything after it,"

This is incredibly distasteful behavour.

>Using your own interpretation on something so vague without any evidence whatsoever is what headcanon is.

Firstly, it is not vague, as you yourself claimed that there is 1 of 2 possibilities, either an Angel is killed by Caine or it is symbolic.

Those are the two options, it is not headcannon what so ever.

>Shows the different speeds

Well done, you just debunked yourself, because what you just proved is that movement beyond the concepts of Time and Space is immeasurable, because, I wonder if moving in a place that is beyond the concepts of Time and Space is beyond linear time...Shocker of all shocks, it is.

You just debunked your own argument, well done there.

>Literally the first scan is one sentence.

The Lilith one? That's a paragraph. Did you not know?
 
Except on it's own it's literally just a metaphor and nothing about it suggests it's literal, unless further context is given.

You should stop personally attacking and mischaracterizing people just because they disagree with you.

"Where less-advanced Time Mages can only undo actions leading directly up to the present, a Master may choose any moment in her subject's timeline and destroy everything after it,..."

They are clearly talking about changing the timeline using time travel, only one of them is better than the other. This is still not an AP feat, it's time travel.

And you just proved to yourself that you were using headcanon.

Well since you still don't understand what's the difference between Immeasurable and Infinite speed on this wiki even after I copy pasted the definition let me tell you again.

Infinite speed = moving in a timeless space

Immeasurable = time traveling using your own speed

Arguing semantics isn't helping your case.
 
>Except on it's own it's literally just a metaphor and nothing about it suggests it's literal, unless further context is given.

It's literally not until you can prove the positive claim. Before spouting a positive claim as true, you must give evidence supporting your positive claim, do that or concede this point.

>You should stop personally attacking and mischaracterizing people just because they disagree with you.

You should stop lying about information, making up information and then quoting that fake information because they're debunking your point and stop mischaracterizing people when they point you out on your lying.

>They are clearly talking about changing the timeline using time travel, only one of them is better than the other. This is still not an AP feat, it's time travel.

You do realise Destruction is a change, right? And once again, you're ignoring the literal statement that they destroy everything afterwards in the timeline.

>And you just proved to yourself that you were using headcanon.

I, in no way did this, once again, you're claiming headcannon yet I disproved your point by catagorically showing that the statement is either true or symbolism, both of which are valid and therefore, at the least, it would be ranked as a "possibly" if the reasoning for them being that tier was based purely on that.

>Well since you still don't understand what's the difference between Immeasurable and Infinite speed on this wiki even after I copy pasted the definition let me tell you again.

Irony.

>Infinite speed = moving in a timeless space

>Immeasurable = time traveling using your own speed

I like how you miss out the information that debunks this, and that would be:

"'Movement beyond linear time. This is why the speed cannot be measured. Given that S = D/T, if T is undefined the speed formula cannot be applied."

Notice how it's just says movement beyond linear time, yeah, moving in a void beyond the concepts of time and space, which is beyond 11-D Space-Time, is Immeasurable speed.

>Arguing semantics isn't helping your case.

Lying and arguing semantics isn't helping your case.
 
You're the one claiming the positive the burden of proof is on you to explain how that is literal, not me to prove a negative that it isn't literal.

You're not debunking anything, you haven't shown proof of anything despite calling me a liar and that I don't know about anything about what I'm talking about.

Yes "destruction" in the context of changing a timeline, not punching a timeline. This is just time travel not AP.

I'm fine with it being possible honestly.

You can argue nothing how much you want, that doesn't change how this wiki defines speed. This is still just infinite speed, which isn't even done by movement either.

Again resorting to personal accusations instead of providing arguments.
 
>You're the one claiming the positive the burden of proof is on you to explain how that is literal, not me to prove a negative that it isn't literal.

I'm not, it's a presupposition that what they are saying is true until given further information, as I have no cause for doubt, and I accept your concession on this point then.

>You're not debunking anything, you haven't shown proof of anything despite calling me a liar and that I don't know about anything about what I'm talking about.

Nice non-sequitor and red herring. It doesn't matter that I've called you out, you're still not giving evidence.

>Yes "destruction" in the context of changing a timeline, not punching a timeline. This is just time travel not AP.

No, it's not, firstly, it even states it destroys the timeline from a point, hence why they literally make note of the difference between changing and destroying. You are ignroing a part of the text, notably the first part where it talks about how Tier 4 Time Mages can change the past, while Tier 5 can destroy the Time Line.

>I'm fine with it being possible honestly.

Concession on this point, accepted.

>You can argue nothing how much you want, that doesn't change how this wiki defines speed. This is still just infinite speed, which isn't even done by movement either.

No, you're just objectively wrong, movement beyond the concept of Time and Space, where Time and Space are 11-D, is Immeasurable speed, as the Platonic concept of Time contains all variations of time, including Linear and Non-Linear and all things inbetween and non-between.

Once again, you just ignore that to say "Muh infinite speed".

>Again resorting to personal accusations instead of providing arguments.

Irony.
 
Anyway since this isn't going anywhere are you going to post evidence for these claims or are you going to fix the profiles?
 
Ogbunabali said:
Anyway since this isn't going anywhere are you going to post evidence for these claims or are you going to fix the profiles?
Nice rebuttal to my arguments.

Your concession has been accepted.
 
I think that Ogbunabali seems to make sense, but I am not the best person to ask.

Here are some of the staff members that you can select from to ask to give input when there are no knowledgeable members available:

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Oh yes, let's have another war.

I expact nothing else from when someone gets pedantic over World of Darkness.

What will it be this time, downgraded to 6-B? 11-C? 10-B?

None of the above would suprise me with the way the wiki acts towards it.
 
It is probably best if other staff members than Matthew get involved this time.
 
Can't comment on the other stuff, but I agree thst the speed statement doesn't support Immeasurable. Being beyond space and time doesn't warrent the rating. You have the be able to time travel with raw speed basically. But this is just a larger issue where the speed definition for Immeasurable is far to vague.
 
I think that the definition is rather straightforward, or at least far less confusing than it used to be. As you said, a character should be able to move backwards and forwards in time via speed alone. This can obviously be achieved by transcending linear time.
 
I feel like it could use some expansion in regards to what doesn't count. Like being beyond time or being higher dimensional does not automatically qualify someone for the rating.
 
Well, being spatially higher-dimensional does not qualify a character, but transcending linear time very well might, unless it would contradict their portrayals too much.
 
Yeah, but I feel like greater explinations is sorta needed. Or examples of what those things look like (Such as the Large Size page giving examples or the regen page).
 
I am afraid that I am too tired and busy to manage another immeasurable speed revision. My apologies.
 
Qawsedf234 said:
Can't comment on the other stuff, but I agree thst the speed statement doesn't support Immeasurable. Being beyond space and time doesn't warrent the rating. You have the be able to time travel with raw speed basically. But this is just a larger issue where the speed definition for Immeasurable is far to vague.
But it's not just simply "Beyond time and Space", also, that would just make it a 12-D void.

It's beyond a magnitude of other Realms that transcend the concepts of Time, Space and Dimensions.

By extension the Void, which is outside the Tellurian itself, is transcendant over the PLATONIC concepts of Time, Space, Dimensions etc.
 
Everything you just said means "beyond space and time". Which isn't enough for an Immeasurable rating. Time also isn't limited to an 11-D scale and (as of now) WoD isn't accepted as having true Platonic concepts.
 
Well, I think that transcending linear time usually means immeasurable speed, or at least I think that we have counted it as such for some other verses.
 
Further staff input would be appreciated though, as I am the wrong person to ask.
 
I don't think moving in an area that's above time is cause for the rating, since they aren't transcending time but sailing through a place that is.
 
Qawsedf234 said:
I don't think moving in an area that's above time is cause for the rating, since they aren't transcending time but sailing through a place that is.
In order to move in a realm that transcends the Concepts of Time, Space and Dimensions on a Platonic level, you need to have Immeasurable movement, or you wouldn't be able to move.
 
We still need more staff input here, or nothing is going to happen.
 
That is probably best, yes.
 
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