Thus Spake Zaranephilpal/DarkReflecions
Dark Reflections
Nephilpal - 03/02/2003 23:23:51
On the whole necromancy is slightly more potent than sorcery, but narrower in scope. For example, a necromantic bone lion would be first circle.
I'll leave setting stuff alone for now.
Only Solar Exalted can become Abyssals. I've addressed this before, but here is my personal rationale for this: The nature of a Solar Exalt is excellence. These god-kings reign in light and splendor and majesty, championing life and hope. Theirs is the gift and burden of leadership and the individual power to remake the world. When that power is inverted, you have a dark and terrible tyrant enslaved by his own power. You have a scion of death and despair and a harbinger of ultimate ruin.
Now, a Lunar is a bestial, feral thing. Part man, part whatever and then some, the perfect Lunar reconciles man and beast and stands between civilization and barbarism, the vanguard against the chaos. The fall of a Lunar is into the grip of their bestial self as a slavering fiend of the alien chaos. This is a chimera, a Lunar gone horribly wrong.
A Sidereal's dark mirror is himself, staring back implacable and unknowable. A Sidereal counsels wisdom that is founded on an error and a lie he is too arrogant to recognize. And so, the master of fate brings about the very fate he seeks to avert. His is the unbound ego rooted in the cetainty of its perfection.
And Dragon-Blooded? These debauched, incestuous semi- godlings warring and fucking among themselves are far from whatever grace they once knew. They are already their corrupted selves, playboy high-school kids who were never supposed to get the keys to Creation. Is it any wonder they wrecked it? Their downfall is that they rose above their station and pretend they are greater than they are. They are social beings, and so their fall is collective and not individual. A Dragon-Blood will never become a dark mirror of himself, but the Dragon-Blooded as a whole will tear the world apart in their bickering.
--Neph
