Impudite Dissonance Rationalization

[Archangel Beth]

Originally Posted by naraht

Is it Canon that all minor bands did not exist until a member of their minor choir equivalent fell?

I don't believe that's canon. I believe there's a comment about minor Bands "evolving" in the pressure-cooker "survival of the fittest" environment of Hell, but I'm blanking on if it's in the core rules, the IPG, or GURPS IN.


I do know that I've been toying with the concept that Impudites get Essence out of people by forcing the human to resonate to the Impudite's personal symphony a little -- just enough that Essence can be passed over, as if the human were a part of the Impudite. (I've been toying with some other resonance tweaks, too, which would tend to strengthen this sort of concept of forcing a relationship via Charm (instead of sensing it, as Mercurians do). But anyway.)

If you want to use that metaphor, that the Impudite is synchronizing the human's symphonic theme (as a living member of the Symphony) in its own personal symphony... then killing a human could be viewed like chopping off a piece of oneself, and thus as dissonant as a Shedite riding a host to actual death.