[UA] Another take on renunciation...

[Timothy Ferguson]

How's this for an idea -

We see Archetypes in fiction and go "Oh...so like the Old Man of the Sea but
fictional!"  Is it possible that losing your place reduces you to fiction?
I know you can do this with a cliomantic charge, and occasionally perhaps
someone tidies up by fictionalising all those who have been Renounced, but
what if there once was an Arthur and he's been reduced to fiction?

As a second idea, what if these strong fictions are watermarks on the
current Earth?  Last time there -was- an Arthur.  Last time, there -was- a
Zorro.  Last time, there -was- a Pecos Bill.
This time, we only have their "fingerprints" left in the sticky stuff from
which the world is made.



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