[UA] The Comte, Karmic Reincarnation, and Echoes of Other Universes

[Gareth Hanrahan]

On Friday 11 January 2002 16:05, you wrote:
> Okay, dig this:
>
> The Comte (First and Last Man) is the Avatar of Karmic
> Reincarnation, immortal, and remembers all the universes that
> came before. Some iterations of the Comte can invent or remember
> rituals from these past cosmoses (cosmii?).
>
> What if it's not a series of Bangs and Busts, but parallel and
> simultaneous Bangs and Busts? In other words, the Comte is
> living in all the multiple versions of the cosmos separated by
> the Veil, and they're all happening at the same time. His
> "ritual making" ability has to do with setting up echoes, not
> with a dead universe, but a living universe next door. He
> experiences all his lives simultaneously.
>
> The Comte, therefore, beats the borders of the real, the ranger
> on the edge of the Veil, keeping the universes separate, or
> mixing them together as necessary. This doesn't make him
> particularly happy or noble, it's just what he *does*.
>
> The dead live in the spaces between universes, the Veil, where
> they skitter like rats in the walls. The identity of the Cruel
> Ones they fear so becomes clear...
>
> The Cruel One(s) are the Comte(s).
>
> The House of Renunciation is the universal hub, the omphalos,
> the spindle upon which the multiverse rotates... and the point
> in which things can pass back and forth between universes.
>
> Thoughts?

Very nice. Very very nice. Throw in some speculations about quantum mechanics 
and quantum computing, perhaps.

How does the Clergy work in this version? Does each universe have its own 
Clergy, or do they rule over all of creation? (Maybe each universe has only a 
single Archetype...) What happens if you start channeling an Archetype from 
another universe?

> Chad Underkoffler [chadu at yahoo.com]
Gar

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