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Old 09-24-2011, 10:45 PM   #21
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Are they similar to platonic solids?
There are archetypes of lots of things that aren't geometrical.

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Old 09-24-2011, 11:12 PM   #22
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Are they similar to platonic solids?
They may be more familiar to you as Forms.
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Old 09-24-2011, 11:24 PM   #23
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Old 09-25-2011, 12:04 AM   #24
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My understanding is that gods aren't on the astral plane. They're on the plane above it, the one full of Platonic archetypes.

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Old 09-25-2011, 12:05 AM   #25
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A theoretical question that will never have a practical answer until the Cabal gets to the last would possible in its' metaphysics......if there is one.

If there isn't you'll never be sure. All you'll ever know is that the number is large and shows no sign of coming to an end.
I wouldn't say this is consistent with infinity in the mathematical sense. There are an infinite number of values that can be obtained by repeatedly adding 1 to any given integer, for example, but each time 1 is added, an even greater number of intermediate values are skipped over, never to be reached only exceeded.
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Old 09-25-2011, 12:09 AM   #26
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All the same, the question stands.
IIRC, Cabal brings up the existence of different versions of the "same" god [Poseidon Earthshaker vs Poseidon HorseSomething] but leaves it as a mystery and implies that there are a lot of theories but no one really knows. Cabal, in general, has a lot of there are mysterious things and people have many different theories about them.
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All the same, the question stands.
The canonical answer is never overtly spelled out, but the vignettes and other ancillary information strongly imply that the different "versions" of mythical characters variously can be aware or unaware of one another, and "forgotten" versions dwell in increasingly remote places but can remain quite potent when correctly invoked.

IOW, it can be different for each version of each god and for each world, and even the gods themselves can't dictate what goes for another.
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IIRC, Cabal brings up the existence of different versions of the "same" god [Poseidon Earthshaker vs Poseidon HorseSomething] but leaves it as a mystery and implies that there are a lot of theories but no one really knows. Cabal, in general, has a lot of there are mysterious things and people have many different theories about them.
If you must have rules for such things, you could do worse than to look at the In Nomine Ethereal Player's Guide, which goes into quite a bit of detail on how gods with the same name and role interact with each other in the canon In Nomine setting. This book meshes with GURPS Cabal remarkably well, actually...
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Old 09-25-2011, 09:44 AM   #29
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IIRC, Cabal brings up the existence of different versions of the "same" god [Poseidon Earthshaker vs Poseidon HorseSomething] but leaves it as a mystery and implies that there are a lot of theories but no one really knows. Cabal, in general, has a lot of there are mysterious things and people have many different theories about them.
Posiedon Horse-maker as well as Posiedon Earth-Embracer, the traditional "sea god". Then there's what about Neptune? Cabal p.121 says Cabalists have met all sorts of Posiedons.

Incidentally, thiis whole issue shows the partial non-overlap of Cabal worlds/places with Infinity conveyor addresses. You don't get to Yetziah (the Cabal version of the Astral Plane) or Briah (the Iconic Realm) in a conveyor. Then there's the 10 (or is it 11?) Houses of the Sephiroth and similar places which may or may not be part of the Yetziroth/Briah system.
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Old 09-25-2011, 05:41 PM   #30
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In my last IW story arc, the I-SWAT team assigned to save the multiverse from total annihilation had to seek the assistance of the Cabal in order to get access to worlds that Infinity had no clue about. The Cabal had access to space travel with TL 12 craft and robot pilots. The difficulty in using the Cabal's methods is that their coordinates for worlds are magical, and do not translate into parachronic coordinates. Also, depending on the faction of Cabalists, transport magic might work differently. In the case of my adventure, they gained a lot of their magic from the Yith. This meant that in order to power a Teleport or Planeshift spell, you had to dump 8 pints of blood onto the Teleport circle. Other factions might have a spell with less demanding components, but that depends on how easy you want travel to be.
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