>>150930
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The Deathlords are godlike entities stated to be in charge of the Underworld, but they're one of the least touched on subjects in the entire setting, and when combined with some of the few mentions of them questioning if they exist, it leads many to believe that they don't. However, Geist makes mention of the possibility that making persistent positive change in the Underworld may provoke conflict with some kind of 'mysterious chthonic god' or some such.
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True Fae who collect enough Titles experience a form of apotheosis known as Wyrd Transcendence. It is completely unknown what it is, but all True Fae instinctively crave it. True Fae also happen to instinctively crave human imagination and conflict, and are stated to be inferior to humans in an abstract sense for their lack of a soul, empathy, and ability to truly create original things. Further, while it brings them to a state even above Old Gods, Humans possess the potential for Ascension untethered to restrictive nature, making it a valid if abstract interpretation.
>Provably false given what happens when a Mage accidentally Paradox's
No, this is actually correct in two (maybe three) different ways, even if they're Lies.
.Didn't the Athenaeum come way, way after the Celestial Ladder collapsed? Not saying it's impossible, but some Fucky Time Bullshit must've happened to make it true.
To clarify, I don't mean the Athenaeums as in the institutions that mystagogues build, I mean the part of the Underworld where knowledge goes when it dies. There's a collapses section, implicitly the fault of mages.
>I should really learn more about Wraiths and Geists.
There's an ocean at the bottom of the Underworld that washes away qualities before erasing whatever is submerged in them. HOWEVER if we examine the geography of the Underworld between the modern age and the Paleolithic era, we find that the water-level has been massively receding, as though being drained through something at the bottom, a concept alluded to elsewhere. The Lower Depths are a cosmic drain on existence, and the most "stable"/"real" one that is thus "closest" to reality is Inferno, which is essentially Hell, where the Akarthatoi feed on sin.
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The Abyss is made of Paradox, and the strongest form of Paradox is Aponoia, which is caused by Archmages fucking up and accidentally retroactively replacing the entirety of existence with a (usually only slightly) different one. They don't like to dwell on the implications, but this can followed to the conclusion that every prior version of reality is aggregating in stasis somewhere in the Abyss, including all the versions of everyone they loved who their own actions replaced with slightly or massively different copies, or just wholesale erased.
>Explain further.
We're not allowed to speak about the Eleventh Iron Seal, but they left her there. She agreed to keep it closed tightly, and they left her there. The delineation between moments means nothing in such a state, so how long must it have been from then to now? She's still there keeping them out, and she is still all alone there.
>>150932
The gears at the bottom of Antarctica are digging into the pre-Aponoia universe (Present), whereas the Mummy's and Judge's "history" is of the pre-Aponoia universe (Past)
>>150936
You should spite him by recording yourself reading it and then listening back to it. In fact, let more people listen to the recording at the same time (don't do it one at a time).