So the Werewolves have Father Wolf, the Demons have the God-Machine, the Beasts have the Dark Mother, the Changelings have the Gentry and Arcadia, the Mages have their Atlantean towers... How do you make sense of all of this if crossover chronicles?
I can only think of 2 possibilities:
1) It all exist. There is a God-Machine, there is a Father Wolf, there is a Dark Mother. Somehow each one of them doesn't contradict the other. God-Machine creates angels and demons while the Gentry kidnaps humans that becomes changelings and the Beasts get their soul devoured. It is a world of both technognosis, fae magic, primordial dreams, magical awakening, blood curses and spiritual shapeshifting. However the big splat "gods" are all focused on their respective splat and they don't interfere with each other, unless the Storyteller wants to.
2) It all exist, but each splat is giving their version of the story, just like the tale of the blind people describing the elephant. They have their own subjective interpretation but there is only one objective truth. Maybe one splat is right and the others are wrong. Maybe they are all children of the Dark Mother. Maybe they are all a mad creation of the God-Machine. Maybe they are all strange things that scaped the unlimited imagination of Arcadia... Maybe the objective truth is none of the above and the Storyteller makes his/her own answer.
Anyway, I am just curious, have you ever created a great metaplot explanation for the CoD universe? Feel free to share it here.
I can only think of 2 possibilities:
1) It all exist. There is a God-Machine, there is a Father Wolf, there is a Dark Mother. Somehow each one of them doesn't contradict the other. God-Machine creates angels and demons while the Gentry kidnaps humans that becomes changelings and the Beasts get their soul devoured. It is a world of both technognosis, fae magic, primordial dreams, magical awakening, blood curses and spiritual shapeshifting. However the big splat "gods" are all focused on their respective splat and they don't interfere with each other, unless the Storyteller wants to.
2) It all exist, but each splat is giving their version of the story, just like the tale of the blind people describing the elephant. They have their own subjective interpretation but there is only one objective truth. Maybe one splat is right and the others are wrong. Maybe they are all children of the Dark Mother. Maybe they are all a mad creation of the God-Machine. Maybe they are all strange things that scaped the unlimited imagination of Arcadia... Maybe the objective truth is none of the above and the Storyteller makes his/her own answer.
Anyway, I am just curious, have you ever created a great metaplot explanation for the CoD universe? Feel free to share it here.
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