And which Realm you awaken into, what form the spirit world and the spirits in it take, is kind of a personality test How do you see the external world, how do you see your relationship to it, what emotional stance constitutes "drawing on your power" for you
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So like the Acanthus, the Enchanters, awaken in Faerie, their Path is about being bargained with and toyed with by tricksy pranksters, they see the world as a puzzle Thyrsus are shamans who see a wild untamed nature, Moros are goffic necromancers who see the peace of the grave
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The Mastigos' least favorite other Path is the Obrimos, the Theurges, churchy Lawful Good Gryffindor types Their Realm is Heaven, their spirits are celestials (angels or patron gods), their Awakening is a heartbreaking image of a better world that could be
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Mastigos, the Warlocks, wake up in Hell, and their spirit guides are monsters and demons Their Awakening is being relentlessly, maliciously tortured, broken by madness and pain until they find the core inside them that refuses to break Their driving emotion is spite
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It's really metal Their magic revolves around the summoning and binding of demons You do not ASK the world for power, you do not BARGAIN for power or TRICK the world into giving you power You FIGHT the world, biting and clawing for every inch, and you TAKE it
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Demons fucking hate you and they want nothing more but for you to suffer and the more powerful the demon is and the more relevant the demon's power is to your needs the more it wants to personally destroy you
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Demons might just be a metaphor for the darkness inside your own heart or they might objectively exist because the universe really is a giant test set up to fuck with you Probably both Cf. the Shadow back in old school Wraith
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The part where they talk about the other splats' attitudes is pretty great, like everyone else sees Warlocks as drama queens and is like "Maybe if you had a better attitude and didn't bring in your own hostility and you smiled more the spirits wouldn't treat you so bad"
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And the Warlocks are just like shut the fuck up Demons aren't fallen angels, they're not unseelie Fae, they're not restless shades, and they sure as hell aren't untamed animal spirits Demons are DEMONS
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They are not gods wearing a mask trying to teach you some kind of lesson for their own benefit They aren't a blind force of entropy or some kind of tricksy alien consciousness or a hungry predator you wandered into the territory of They HATE Knowingly and intentionally
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Like Gaiman's story about the Cat Who Fought the Devil "It was not a pagan god misunderstood by Christian prejudice, it was not Milton's Lucifer caught in tragic noble rebellion It was the Devil"https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1291631028700766209?s=19 …
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Anyway what you were talking about with power being something external you have to appease probably applies more to the Acanthus Like all of these Paths are still arguably New Age shit about having your head up your own ass, Warlocks in particular
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You can never prove for a fact the Supernal Realms actually exist and aren't your own psychodrama shaped by cultural preconceptions etc But man is it a wild contrast with the sheer hippy-dippy optimism of MtAsc and its paradigms and "Just believe in yourself"
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