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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The MtAw paths are all kind of about believing in yourself, the messiah-complex hubris of the Obrimos especially But for a Warlock believing in yourself means believing that the world hates you and is against you and wants you to suffer
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Feeling threatened and afraid and angry is the power of a Warlock Your power is in not being okay If you get therapy and start to feel better ("disrupt universalizing and catastrophizing patterns") your power starts to go away
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yeah, I can see why this is both appealing and intolerable
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