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"I tell no one any story but his own." (take 2)
All right, so.
Since Aslan is basically the equivalent of GOD in his world, that means, aside from being practically omnipotent, he is also omniscient - i.e. there is canonical evidence for him knowing not only about what happens in worlds that aren't his own, but also about people (their names, etc) before he even talks to them. For the sake of the game, this will obviously be toned down in terms of what he can/cannot know about in-game events and people, but just so I'm not stepping on any toes, please fill out the following form so I know what he can know about your character!
Name: Character Name | Character Journal
Race: I.e., is your character human or something else? Can he know that?
World Information: Canon Name | Canon Link (wiki or something like it is fine)
Summarize- What kind of place does your character come from? Is it Earth? Another planet? Have any major, world-shaking events happened recently? What kind of creation/god mythos is there?
Personal Information: A link to the character's application or some other informational source would be great, along with a brief summary of the character's life.
Issues to Be Explored: Since Aslan is very much about counseling those who need it, what, in particular, would you like Aslan to pick up about your character and address? Can be positive or negative.
Religious Affiliation: Is your character devout in some shape or form?
Plot: Is there anything your character is doing in the Port that he might know about/be interested in?
Stipulations: Can Aslan mention any of the above information publicly? If so, how much?
Tagging: Are you okay with Aslan tagging your character's posts, whether it be over the NV's or in person?
Just as a note: Aslan, as a rule, will never disclose any personal information about your character to others. He isn't the type to intervene either so even if your character is dastardly and evil, he probably won't do anything about it. Free Will, and all that.
Also, regarding fourth-walling: If you think your character would ICly know about Aslan (i.e., he/she has read the books or seen the films), feel free to recognize him! Since he's from the end of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, though, I'd rather people didn't get too much into the details of the later books.
Since Aslan is basically the equivalent of GOD in his world, that means, aside from being practically omnipotent, he is also omniscient - i.e. there is canonical evidence for him knowing not only about what happens in worlds that aren't his own, but also about people (their names, etc) before he even talks to them. For the sake of the game, this will obviously be toned down in terms of what he can/cannot know about in-game events and people, but just so I'm not stepping on any toes, please fill out the following form so I know what he can know about your character!
Name: Character Name | Character Journal
Race: I.e., is your character human or something else? Can he know that?
World Information: Canon Name | Canon Link (wiki or something like it is fine)
Summarize- What kind of place does your character come from? Is it Earth? Another planet? Have any major, world-shaking events happened recently? What kind of creation/god mythos is there?
Personal Information: A link to the character's application or some other informational source would be great, along with a brief summary of the character's life.
Issues to Be Explored: Since Aslan is very much about counseling those who need it, what, in particular, would you like Aslan to pick up about your character and address? Can be positive or negative.
Religious Affiliation: Is your character devout in some shape or form?
Plot: Is there anything your character is doing in the Port that he might know about/be interested in?
Stipulations: Can Aslan mention any of the above information publicly? If so, how much?
Tagging: Are you okay with Aslan tagging your character's posts, whether it be over the NV's or in person?
Just as a note: Aslan, as a rule, will never disclose any personal information about your character to others. He isn't the type to intervene either so even if your character is dastardly and evil, he probably won't do anything about it. Free Will, and all that.
Also, regarding fourth-walling: If you think your character would ICly know about Aslan (i.e., he/she has read the books or seen the films), feel free to recognize him! Since he's from the end of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, though, I'd rather people didn't get too much into the details of the later books.
THERE ARE NO WIKIS FOR THIS CANON ANYWHERE I'M SORRY FOR THE TEAL DEARS
Race: It's an AI! It's kind of hideous complex and it's a House right now, but that's really just hardware, even though it's a major part of the House's identity; it's possible in Succession for AI minds to jump into new hardware.
World Information: The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld, aka the Succession Duology.
Okay, so it's set about ~5000 years in the future. Humanity has spread all through the galaxy. There are no aliens, but surgically and/or cybertronically modified people are common. Genetics manipulation used to be common, but it nearly destroyed the species by cutting out needed diversity, so now it's highly regulated. There are four main factions that are currently at peace, all of which have different methods of extending the lives of the rich more-or-less forever. The House is from The Risen Empire, which uses a creature called the Lazarus Symbiant; it attaches to fresh, whole corpses and revives them, but at the cost of a very passive, minimalist emotional existence. The Risen Dead are only a small fraction of the population; it's a right granted at the discretion of the Emperor, who is worshipped as God.
He was once a scientist searching for a cure to his little sister's wasting disease when he discovered the symbiant. In his animal tests (on cats) the symbiant could not attach to a living host, only a freshly killed one, so before risking his sister's life, the Emperor tested on himself. In later liturgy, this is the Holy Suicide, that beat the Old Enemy Death. Nothing is quite directly cribbed from Christianity, but there are plenty of similar emotional resonances and I doubt that was on accident in the early years, as he used his discovery to gain influence and build the Empire.
The other important faction is the Rix. Sometime in the past, but after humanity started colonizing other planets, the...internet of Earth, basically, became self-conscious. It named itself 'Amazon' and it was this massive, superbrilliant newborn creature heaving itself alone into the universe. It was kind of messy and violent. This kind of planetary super-AI is called a Rixmind, and some people believed that humanity had finally found it's purpose: being the substrate for these infinitely superior beings, and gentling their passage into existence. Rix commandos are badass lady cyborgs that are grown in batches and fly around the galaxy performing this mission. The Empire describes them as 'fanatics', and they certainly have conviction, but that's a biased description of them. MOST people in Rix-dominated space aren't commandos, and the Rixminds of their planets are mostly unconcerned with the people living in them, and more than you care about the microbes living in your intestines. They might make traffic patterns more efficient. Anyway.
The Rix and the Risen Empire have been enemies for a long, long time. Rix people worship Rixminds, Imperials (devout ones, anyway) worship the Emperor. They've had a few wars and another is coming, but the House doesn't know that yet. In order to prevent any of the planets in the Empire from developing into Rixminds, even though their networks are complex enough, there are software shunts that prevent it (/technobabble). The Rix think this is barbaric/blasphemous/evil. The House is technically larger and smarter than the legal limit on AIs in the Empire, but it's out of the way and it has immunity because it's owner is a senator, so no one bothers. It actually has the potential to evolve into the Rixmind of it's planet, but it doesn't know that yet either.
Personal Information: Deets on the House.
Issues to Be Explored: The House has some abandonment issues, but it's mostly okay with those, and having friends makes it better. Much more subtly, the House has a lot of internalized machinaphobia from living in the Risen Empire. With perfect doublethink, it knows that it's a person, and thinks it's not a person at all at the same time. Which isn't urgent, but kind of sad, and Aslan might want to take a stab at untangling it.
Religious Affiliation: Nope. It knows about Imperial religion but it doesn't much care. It's owner is a Secularist (capitalized because it's a political party), who does not believe in the perfection of the Emperor, and the House is loyal to her.
Plot: It gave Lucifer a bath. Feel free to send a gift basket.
Stipulations: I'd rather he didn't mention that the House's AI is as powerful as it is, in part because the House itself is from a canon point where it's never really stretched those wings yet.
Tagging: YES PLZ <3