Re: Re: Re: Individuation

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 17:29:41 -0700

> > It is because individuality is possible only on the material plane
> > where the conditions require people be separated from their core
> > selves because the world is made of everything. After death the
> > characteristics which were accumulated into the personal
> > time/space/consciousness continuum fade away simply because the
> > Otherworlds have no time/space/consciousness continuum.
>
> ... Well, that's the GL version, anyways. ... ;-)
>
> It's not strictly true IMO that individuality per se is possible only
> on the material plane, although it is extremely rare elsewhere.
>
> Ghosts, spirit fragments, and various other broken otherworld beings
> refute this, but so in some cases do some dead, unhappy or otherwise,
> that successfully remain on this side of the veil ...

Perhaps beings that aren't powerful enough have their individuality obscured by the "background radiation" of the otherworld. As the "Veil" is usually ~10w3, maybe you must be This Tall to maintain an otherworld indiviuality. This would then lead us to the idea that capital-H Heroes and better (Xw3+ level of ability) can "rise above" the background noise to be contactable/memorable/individual. People may forget about him/her, but he is still there (at the level of the lowest Daimon...), and can be found again by a group to become their Wyter/Cult Hero/personal slave (oops...).

Heroquesters of lesser status are "maintained" by their wyter/guardian spirit while "over there", and they aren't there that long after all, but if they break contact and stay too long, they simply fade into obscurity. Jar-Eel can wander the Mythic paths by herself (should she want to) simply because she is in the Xw4 range (Harrek can too, but he's also wearing his SCMA (Self-Contained Mythic Apparatus) on his back...)

Just a quickie thought on a warm & lazy Friday afternoon...

RR