[UA] Cannibal Avatar?

[Will]

Timothy Ferguson <ferguson at beyond.net.au> a écrit : 
> 
> Have people -ever- embodied the Trickster?  I mean, it's always some
> fox-God, or Loki, or Merlin or some other shapeshifting God-prophet freak.
> Is there anyone who actually says "I'm going to help people along by making
> them look like absolute asses, you better believe it bub!" and
> actually -does- it?  I'm willing to give you Orson Welles for the Martians
> landing, and maybe the guy who designed the Man Who Never Was, or the
> Magician from the Second World War...but I'm not sure any of these people
> really had ritual intent...

Well, as far as I know you're trying to find examples in the _real_ world,
to use in the _UAverse_ without giving them the chance to be interested in
the occult. Obviously in this case, either you suppose it was Orson Wells'
bid for ascension (well, it worked and it didn't disappear...), or you
don't try using examples from a non-magickal world.

> I like the WECHBY, it's a cool social comentary wrapped in a great game
> concept.  The Hero isn't.  The Dark Stalker isn't.  You see my direction
> here?  I think we are in danger of blanding the game out by brining in too
> much Campbellian, Jungian and (damn, the guy who wrote "The Hero")ian
> baggage.  I say NO NEW ARCHETYPES THAT DON'T CONTAIN A COOL TWIST!

Well, there are 333 of them, so they can't all be complicated. Maybe as
civilisation expands we are getting more twisted and complicated. But I'm
not even sure. If I take the archetype of the Self-Made Man (has it been
mentioned already?), I can clearly think of several avatars. And it seemed
to be quite "potent" in American culture (at least we focused on the early
1900s for one year at school in english class, and I got really fed up of this
"new frontier" stuff).

A+
Will

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