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[Errol216]

Also, whoever actually takes the Internet as a purview has ascended to an equivalent of Zeus/Poseidon/Hades in terms of Sky/Sea/Earth. That'd be a fun conversation to have amongst the Theoi.

[Errol216]

Pft. The internet is clearly Athena's purview. Ain't you kids heard of ARPANET.

[Errol216]

I can't wait until you discover the existence of the Spirit Arcanum.

[Errol216]

Just as a general, cautionary note: don't associate Wisdom with mental health. That's a 1e thing in all the lines that 2e got rid of pretty successfully and we really don't need it back.

[Errol216]

So, keep in mind that the central premise of Mage is that access to power lets out the worst in people, often in the name of accreting even more power. All of the Paths are villains to some extent, every Path leads to the Seers as much as it does anywhere else for a reason, and if Mastigos seems particularly bad to you, it's honestly more about what ticks you off personally. Which isn't a bad thing, for the record, but still a thing to keep in mind.

Being a Mastigos is about knowing how to find the path to freedom. The reason that their symbol is primarily about chains is because...

[Errol216]

Whoa. I feel like Deep Hives posit an interesting answer to the question, "Why aren't there any human spirits?" It makes the idea of human souls feel like some kind of white-hole type of singularity on the spiritual landscape.

This is very cool.

[Errol216]

Thought I'd share a book I've just read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-the-poppy-war

The setting is essentially the Pacific Theater during World War 2; if you're familiar with how things played out between various factions there, you'll find a lot of echoes in the world events.

More relevantly to this forum, though, is that the depiction of magic is a wonderfully Forces-through-a-Thyrsus-lens thing. The main character is given a crash course in the Supernal among a population that doesn't believe that magely powers exist. And there's no shortage of horror...