[UA] Re: [UA]

[John C]

> >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.

John Crimmins                     john1x at hotmail.com
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