02-07-2016, 07:11 PM
(02-07-2016, 10:11 AM)Shaadaris Wrote:(02-07-2016, 09:27 AM)Surge Wrote: (I like the idea that there are travelers all across the multiverse who all overestimate their respective power, like 753, he'll gladly explain how he's almost like a god to most races but in the sheer scope of the multiverse he's still small time small fry, he just doesn't realize it.)
((Yeah, that's sort of what I was going for with the Eternals.
They think they're the most powerful beings in existence, and they certainly are very powerful, but there are many things beyond all logic (or rather their limited definition of "logic" and "beyond") that even they don't understand, and they're just as subject to the beginning and end of all time as everything else. They're also almost useless when it comes to "divine stuff" alone since they each have quite a specialization when it comes to power.
Well, Tsyesia, one of them, understands this stuff a lot more, and may and/or may not have survived the end/beginning of time (her own testimony is shaky at best), but she's both enlightened and delusional and the others have a hard time telling which is which, or even if there's a difference between the two.
I'm even making a series of "revelations of divinity" that she created. They use Insane Troll Logic and contradict themselves (and sense itself) frequently, but she seems very convinced that understanding them will allow her to reach a higher level of divinity than is believed to exist... The others aren't so sure. Since I'm on a roll for posting long confusing things to do with Eternals tonight, here are the two I've completed so far:
[[Warning: The explainations explain the underlying ideas used to create them and kind of spoil the meta aspect / transtemporal shennanigans that they imply.]]
On the nature of Time and the one truly endless cycle:
On the nature of Origin and how everything is both true and false:
I was originally going to integrate this stuff into the Eternals' dialogue and stuff for their intentionally very limited "screen time" but then I realized this kind of thing would never come up in casual conversation and is unlikely to be relevant unless we start getting self-aware fourth-wall-bending characters. That part is more likely than the casual conversation bit.))
I love it when my characters insult me. It means they love me.