[UA] Archetypal problems

[Chris Cooper]

Hello anybody.

I need a bit of help.

I have noticed some irregularities within the UA
archetype statosphere layout.

I always have had a soft spot for Arthurian Mythos. So
when one of the player's characters history is to
knock off his mafia don father and take over the crime
syndicate; I figured he was prime candidate for the
Priest-King archetype. If anyone has read the Golden
Bough, the Priest-King is the symbolic husband to
Diana, his mantle is to be a surrogate Attis. 

While the Priest-King is ruling, every whim is carried
out - he is denied nothing. But he cannot leave his
Sacred Grove. At any point, another
seeker-after-the-throne can come out and try to kill
the existing King-of-the-Wood.

So the son rises up behind his father and shoots him
through the head in front of a family dinner.
Eventually when the haze dies down, the murdering son
realises the the quiet Italian dinner has become a
Bacchanalian revel. The celebration is simple: The
King is dead, long live the King.

Now the trick happens. Does the Priest-King archetype
allow the aggressive, upstart avatar to live? Is it
not the duty of the Godwalker to hunt down the old
archetype and put him down? How does the young avatar
go about to kill the older archetype when the
archetype can try and block his channeled powers.

I assume that the House of Renunciation will not be
reconverting this failed archetype.

Of course this isn't all too bad. Of course something
else was destined to happen.

What happens when another character starts channeling
the Anarchist. The anarchist is about destroying the
existing governing structure to ensure a
self-perpetuating, self-determiniting,
auto-syndicatous network, or something similarly Monty
Pythonish.

Anyway, the Anarchist decides that the archetypes and
the statosphere are imposing too heavily on spiritual
and religious freedoms and needs to be broken down for
the good of society.

What now! He can't just go and kill avatars. Sort of
cutting off hydra heads. More will just grow back.

Chris.

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