[UA] Outdated Archetypes

[Chad Underkoffler]

> Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:31:17 -0600
> From: Greg Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com>
>
>>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:13:43 -0800 (PST)
>>From: Chad Underkoffler <chadu at yahoo.com>
>>Subject: Re: [UA] Ascension of the Magdalene
>>
>>Also, the main text claims Archetypes never go away, but the
UA
>>box on p. 5 claims the Magus Archetype hasn't survived to the
>>present day. Isn't that anti-canon, as well as contradictory
to
>>the text here?
>
> They don't go away.  They do get replaced.  You can never
> bring down (say) The Mother without offering something else 
> (The Caregiver?) in her place.

I kinda like the option that they *never* get replaced, they're
just part of the Jungian Junk Drawer of humanity. They're no
longer relvant, and perhaps have lost power, but they're still
there, taking up space and ratcheting up to 333.

> The Magus probably got replaced by The Scientist, but that's
> not canon. It's just how I'd do it IMUAC.

I'm thinking it could be a lot of fun (following the Junk Drawer
idea... hmmm, maybe call it Toys in the Attic, to represent
ideas that humanity has grown out of but can't bear to part
with/throw away) to have the Godwalker of the Magus out and
bopping around. He's secure there, because nobody's reallly
following the archetype but him, but his power bases has
dwindled. I'd probably make him Cagliostro, who hasn't had much
in the way of Archetype excitement since Crowley tried to boot
him. I'd run him as Saint-Germain, Jr., possibly a servant of
Order (if the Comte is Entropy) or Entropy (if the Comte is
Order).



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