Tuesday DE

[bjornwilde]

The old World of Darkness game Mage the Ascension had a character aspect called Essence, which was basically why kind of soul/spirit/avatar your mage had. Split into four types, they were:

• Dynamic: A mage with a Dynamic Avatar would say that nothing is static, everything must change. Such mages are aligned with the cosmic principle of Dynamism, and feel a deep urge to create, innovate, and pursue novelty.
• Pattern: A mage with a Pattern Avatar would say that strength comes from order and stability. Such mages are aligned with the cosmic principle of Stasis and feel a deep urge to protect and preserve what they perceive as valuable.
• Primordial: A mage with a Primordial Avatar subconsciously remembers the most primordial of times: the supreme tranquility of the time before Creation began. The ugliest parts of existence fill the Primordial mage with the urge to purge away that ugliness and restore a small measure of the primordial tranquility to current human existence.
• Questing: A mage with a Questing Avatar would say that purpose comes from the seeking and accomplishing of goals. Whereas the other three Essences are manifestations of fundamental cosmic principles, a Questing mage feels a deep urge to pursue the central concept itself which gives the three cosmic principles their direction: Quality.

Based on these, what kind of avatar would your character(s) have?

Comments

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka was a Questing sort until she was touched by the Daughter, then she became a Primordial avatar.

Jessica is Dynamic. She knows everything is chaos and change is just part of life.

Tybalt is tricky to pin down, as it should be with a cat. Dynamic is pretty strong for him but I can see Questing as well in how he protects his people and never gives up.

Alustin definitely has a Questing avatar. He has a purpose and pursues it.

Ben is my odd one out. I think he'd be a Pattern avatar.

[makesthings]

I have a lot of Questing ones; Cassian, Will S., Sameth though Sameth might be more Dynamic

Demeter is Primordial

Charles is either Pattern or Dynamic

William is I think Pattern

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Basically all the Chosen are Dynamic. Like, that is their thing: The Crests aren't really the gods of light or anything, they're the gods of change, representations of chaotic forces of nature, with the Dark Ocean as their opposite number representing peace, stasis, order, and stagnation.