[UA] Re: [UA]

[Nick Wedig]

>> >Within a century, some other cave-woman displaces the first Mother, and
>> >she pops through the House of Redemption on her way out, and starts
>> >killing and eating children (sounds like the opposite of being a mother 
>>to
>> >me).  That's a powerful enough concept that she probably Re-Ascends in
>> >short order.
>>
>>I didn't think ex-Clergymembers could re-Ascend.  I though that was 
>>mentioned in the inital description of the House (but I could be wrong).  
>>In certain ways, it would seem to easy for them to do so (a. they know all 
>>about the IC, b. they're fanatically opposed to their old archetype, thus 
>>pushing them to ascned as an opposite archetype, etc).
>
>I have to say, though, that the Killer of Children seems like a pretty good 
>archetype.  Needs a punchier name, of course....  Lilith, Medea, Baba Yaga, 
>and any number of real world murderesses.
>
>Kind of hard to put a positive spin on that one, though.

Perhaps the Bogeyman that frightens children into behaving?  That makes for a fairly positive spin (not terribly so, but it's closer).  Characters like Saint Nicholas's old sidekick, Black Peter, who'd take away bad children in a sack, would be used to convince children to be good.

Mr. Teapot
bogeyman

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