[UA] Cruel One Cosmology

[James O'Rance]

"Nick Wedig" <mrteapot at disinfo.net> said:

 >>>You should then take a more Kantian (rather than Platonic) perspective, 
an claim that they are the fundamental concepts of human existence, the lens 
through which we perceive the outside world.<<<

Dead German guys dominated my life last year. Brecht, Kant, Frued, the 
Expressionist playwrights...

If the Cruel Ones are kantian, then you can still have them as angels - or 
what we understand to be angels. Their true nature is something that we 
cannot apprehend, and so the Comte was right - angels are not as he had 
always believed.

The issue with Kant is that we can never actually describe the noumenal, and 
so directly using the Cruel Ones in a game would be impossible. You could 
only refer to them second-hand (which is what I think UA currently does).

Characters could never actually know the nature of the Cruel Ones; they 
could only know that because of their nature, certain truths are evident 
(like, demons don't talk about the Other Side). You could then make guesses 
at the truth, but your understanding would always be imperfect.

 >>>Time doesn't exist in the outside world, just it's necessary for us to 
comprehend it, etc, and so is one of the cruel ones.<<<

Arguably it doesn't exist in this one, either.


Cheers,

James O’Rance
“Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of hand.”
- The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)

http://www.geocities.com/dragon-dreamer/



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