Working on a character concept, Anyone familiar with Hellenic culture? |
Working on a character concept, Anyone familiar with Hellenic culture? |
Apr 20 2014, 03:59 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,768 Joined: 31-October 08 From: Redmond (Yes, really) Member No.: 16,558 |
I'm building a character for a street level open-ended game who's based around a fairly basic concept: curious, bright magical researcher who refuses to give up his autonomy. He'll do a job for a fee because he made the *choice* to be so bound, but he won't put himself under someone else's authority long term, or at all without strict guidelines. This is all to preserve his status as a moral agent, able to do what he believes is right without compromising his morals.
I need to flesh him out. He uses a Greek model of hermeticism, though he suspects a Unified Magical Theory is possible and does research to that end. I'm not sure where he came from, how he ended up in the Barrens, etc. and could use some good ideas (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Apr 20 2014, 02:29 PM
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Prime Runner Ascendant Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 |
Love that he suspects that a UMT is possible, since it is already here, you know. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Also love that he expects to keep his morals in the shadows. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) |
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Apr 20 2014, 03:03 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,768 Joined: 31-October 08 From: Redmond (Yes, really) Member No.: 16,558 |
Love that he suspects that a UMT is possible, since it is already here, you know. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Also love that he expects to keep his morals in the shadows. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) What did I miss? SR canon is so hard to keep track of (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) |
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Apr 20 2014, 04:48 PM
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Prime Runner Ascendant Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 |
What did I miss? SR canon is so hard to keep track of (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) UMT became Fact (as in the Theory is a mainstream theory now) in SR4. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Apr 20 2014, 05:15 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 64 Joined: 21-August 09 Member No.: 17,527 |
This! Is! Redmond! (boots a troll down a manhole)
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Apr 20 2014, 05:59 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,768 Joined: 31-October 08 From: Redmond (Yes, really) Member No.: 16,558 |
UMT became Fact in SR4. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Source? My memory is full of holes (health related) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) |
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Apr 20 2014, 06:55 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,192 Joined: 6-May 07 From: Texas - The RGV Member No.: 11,613 |
Sounds like an occult investigator. The path to enlightenment is often beset but side jaunts into untruth that still result in the gaining of wisdom.
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Apr 20 2014, 07:31 PM
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Prime Runner Ascendant Group: Members Posts: 17,568 Joined: 26-March 09 From: Aurora, Colorado Member No.: 17,022 |
Source? My memory is full of holes (health related) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) Quick and easy gave me this, though it is not what I remember. Will look for more on the matter. QUOTE (Street Magic) Chaos magic’s popularity among young magicians has come to influence even the hermetic paradigm, prompting the development of the Unified Magical Theory. AS for the Theory being accepted fact, that one may still be up in the air, but the fact is - It is definitely a Theory. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Apr 21 2014, 05:23 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,768 Joined: 31-October 08 From: Redmond (Yes, really) Member No.: 16,558 |
[...] AS for the Theory being accepted fact, that one may still be up in the air, but the fact is - It is definitely a Theory. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Sounds like I was right, then. It's a hypothesis, not a proven theory (much less a well established one) - still in progress, not widely accepted as fact. A well established theory is something like evolution or gravity. |
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Apr 21 2014, 05:44 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,575 Joined: 5-February 10 Member No.: 18,115 |
Yeah, Chaos Magic is cool and all (and if magic were real, I'd be a Chaos Mage just from a pure philosophical standpoint), but it's merely a pragmatic school of thought rather than a verifiable unified theory.
~Umi |
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Apr 21 2014, 06:08 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,768 Joined: 31-October 08 From: Redmond (Yes, really) Member No.: 16,558 |
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