From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Wed 06 Oct 1999 - 03:55:55 EEST
Bob Stancliff:
> In my game, Immanent Mastery is the simplest portion of the EWF lore
> which any human could understand. It is power over substance, divorced
> from the mystic truths, and falsely applied. This helps explain why it is
> still popular among the ignorant and lower populations of Kralorela. A
> true mystic would see through the mummery of Charismatic Wisdom and know
> that the Path is empty of enlightenment.
A True Mystic would in most cases also rubbish Enlightenment, but that
blatant aside, aside, I think the above is entirely correct. The False
Dragon's Ring mastered the superficialities of draconism, at the
ultimately disasterous cost of ignoring what it meant to truly realise
one's draconic nature. If the PoIM doesn't perfectly cpature this folly,
I don't know what else does.
An other interesting point is the degree to which the PoIM resembles
an Hsunchen cult (albeit a Hsunchen cult gone stark raving mad, it
must be said), which I shan't comment on, other than this self-referential
comment about how 'interesting' that in fact is).
Cheers,
Alex.
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