I would say that just saying the setting of Mage: the Ascension is "human culture decides what's true with no external inputs" is deeply unfair That doesn't actually make any sense -- then normal mundane scientists would never be able to disprove theories, etc.
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The metaplot of Mage is very much that the Consensus *is* being pushed and prodded and pulled by subtle forces ordinary Mages don't really understand, and the whole journey of Ascension is to try to figure it out
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It's the whole thing in Time of Judgment with Days of Fire angrily warning the Mages that they're just tenants busting up the furniture as though the original architect and landlord is never coming back But he is, and he's mad (and Hunters are just the foam on the tide)
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Like this is actually a big thing in Mage, the universe "wants" death to exist, and is becoming "stricter" about it as time passes The Dark Ages stuff for Mage with the backstory of the Tremere -- making youth potions used to be relatively easy, it's getting harder and harder
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And it's obviously not because regular mortals *want* to die Nobody wants to die, and yet something deep inside of us, this cosmic force, keeps whispering this awful idea that it's inevitable, that we *must* die, that we *will* die (The Wyrm from Werewolf, Oblivion from Wraith)
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House Tremere was so terrified of this and so unwilling to accept that the laws of magic were telling them they had to give it up and accept death they took the only way out they could find, becoming Clan Tremere, without understanding what a terrible price Death would demand
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
sounds like they should've attacked and dethroned god first
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Replying to @perdricof @Nymphomachy
That is, in fact, exactly what Lucifer tried to do and the Time of Judgment novels are about how he's an alcoholic now
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That's kind of the great thing about it, like the Biblical metaplot trying to tie all the games together made Lucifer this linchpin of everything, the one whose rebellion cursed Caine and bound Gaea and freed the Avatars that allow Mages to exist and created the Underworld
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And the novels just go whole hog and not only put Lucifer onstage but make him the *main character* and the viewpoint character And he's just this sad white boy bumming around LA waiting for the world to end
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Very Supernatural
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