[UA] Topic: The House of Renunciation

[Alex Duncan]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:00:38PM -0600, Rich Ranallo wrote:
> A question for all of you; not for any particular reason, but just something
> to talk about: what would a child born inside a Room of Renunciation end up
> like? Supposing the child's mother was taken there while pregnant, and kept
> until after the baby came to term.

Different rooms work differently.  Some of them, like the Room of
Heart's Burden Lifted, rely on their agents to shape the transformation
and only provide the tools for them to do so, while others, like the
Room of Cold Reflection, seem to do all the work themselves.

In either case, an infant is either a tabula rasa or pretty close to it,
and so doesn't really give the force of Renunciation anything to react
against.  So, I would say that generically, a room would have no special
effect on a newborn's personality.  However, being born in an
extradimensional space could have all kinds of interesting unnatural
side effects, such as being a magnet for the attention of Renunciate
forces throughout one's life.

I imagine that if agents of a room ended up with a foundling, they might
like to see it brought up to serve the agenda of their room, but they
probably don't have the leisure to do it themselves, so most likely they
would make some kind of search for someone to do it for them.  Or just
drop it off at a hospital.

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