[UA] The End of the World, and so on.

[John C]

John Crowley's _Ægypt_ has gotten me thinking about the end of the world -- 
or at least the end of the UA world.  I know that the unofficial canon is 
that the world physically ends and starts over again from the beginning, but 
I prefer the idea of the world simply changing.  Going with Crowley's idea, 
the last time this happened would have been the Renaissance; the birth of 
the "Age of Reason".  The last archetype ascended, and everything changed.  
History shifted into new patterns, the laws of nature changed, certain 
people, places, and things disappeared (while others simultaneously 
appeared) or became suddenly fictional, and so on...but except for a few 
very special individuals, no one was aware of the change.  As far as the 
human race was concerned, the world had *always* been this way.

(I figure that most of the old schools of magick would have died right then 
and there, in favor of more "scientific" schools.  Something based on 
Alchemy could be interesting -- it has a ready-made paradox, if you go with 
the idea of purification of the soul coming through experimenting with base 
matter.)

In the present day, as the campaign start off, the world is on the verge of 
the next recreation.  The transition this time will be to the "Age of 
Uncertainty", exemplified by fuzzy logic, quantum physics, and suchlike.  
Dermot Arkane's aspiration to ascend as the "Heisenberg Messenger" were what 
got me started on this way of thinking.  What I'm looking for now is some 
other archetypes, or interpretations of traditional archetypes, that would 
have a similar feel.  Any ideas or suggestions?

John Crimmins                     john1x at hotmail.com
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my pupil years ago.  A young man not without talent, but slapdash,
and huckle-muckle in his worksmanship."
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