[UA] Avatar: The Mentally Ill Mathematician?

[Daniel Butler]

This is personally what I don't like about The Avatars in UA. The Archetype
is supposed to be a universal component of humanity but where does The
Mentally Ill Mathematician fit into Aboriginal culture? Not anywhere really.
Thus, Archetypes should really be quite generic, actual Archetypes that
people fit but as they grow in power they can actually twist that Archetype
to fit their own ends. They are so embedded within the Archetype by the time
they hit Godwalker that the Avatar changes the Archetype and vice versa.

Thus, for example, reporters, photo-journalists, detectives, safari rangers,
park rangers, bounty hunters and the like all follow the path of The Hunter
but when the Godwalker ascends his Fifth Channel trickles back down to the
bottom, altering the flow of power (the channels and the taboo) and remaking
it in his own image.

Now, I'm not saying their can't be a Mentally Ill Mathematician, but whoever
wants that Archetype to really fit into the Clergy will have to start with
Ascending as the Wielder of Fire (the burned and scarred God of light and
creativity, patron of artists and inventors) and defining his Godwalker
channel as something to do more with logic and madness rather than
creativity and sacrifice.

> So - a (post) modern incarnation of an avatar first
> represented by Prometheus.  The mentally ill
> mathematician. Think we can cook up some channels
> and a taboo?

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