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Imperator of Puppets, Tanks and Severance

The golden future envisionned by Anatol Burinea ...

transplants brains

provide replacement body parts

is encased in glass

rely on chemical nutriments for sustenance

provide mortal with what they need to survive effortlessly

Anatol Burinea embodies the experience of being disconnected from one’s body. Like, when you are no longer feeling it, no longer in it: for instance when you can see your own body from outside while astral projecting. He is an architect that entangles with the world and make plans, plans to separate people from their bodies, keeping only their brains, which are easier to keep alive. The body, in his thesis, is a burden and prevent mankind from reaching perfection. In the future h envisions, mortal real selves would be their brains, kept in nutrient-filled tanks. They would be able to prolong their life by transfering their consciousness to newly cloned brains. Their interractions with the material world would be made through mechanical replacements bodies that they’d control at a distance, like puppets. 

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Imperator of Popsicle, Ellipsis, and Culture Shock

 Envisions a golden future that ...

is cold towards people

stops any kind of lively activity

provide transportation through time to mortals

preserves the greatest minds of mankind

make humans safe from further damages

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Imperator of Blood drinking, Warrior castes, and Twilight

The golden future envisionned by Iskaeon ...

is unholy

conduct most of its activities during the night

make humans immune to the aging process

provide humanity proficiency in dark magic

forces mortals to consume blood

is damaged by the light from the sun

In the golden future envisionned by Iskaeon, Humanity has succombed to the tentation of vampirism. Mortals have become immortal by embracing this curse, but, with Iskaeon's help, this curse would not be hurting them. This would be for them a "curse" only in its aesthetic: dark and unholy, but not sad nor incapacitating. Iskaeon works on making vampirism more and more awesome, and inspire people by providing them with blessings that evoke vampirism and the vision he embodies. In order to spread vampirism to the whole of humanity, he is gathering legions of warriors trained in the art of combat and horse-races. He plan to inflict them with the curse once it has attained a level of perfection making it no longer a hurting one, and to then release them on humanity, following the descent of the sun, to spread vampirism and immortality.

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Imperator of Escape-Artists, Barnacles and Black Holes

Envisions a golden future that ...

 makes you free

 let you avoid harm

impress crowds

avoid toxicity

let you be your true self

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Imperator of Astrology, Psychology, Closed sets and Tribes

The golden future envisionned by Zelenarche ...

tells you who you are

charts humans’ paths in life

warns people of dangers to let them avoid them

encourage people to seize opportunities

relies on the studies of the sky

Being able to predict when and how bad things would happen to you provide you opportunities to avoid it. Based on this theory, if you follow prediction’s advices, then no harm would come to you. This tenet is the fundation upon which  Zelenarche wants to build their utopia. By creating categories of people, predicting their behavior, and charting the course of their destinies, Zelenarche work towards the completion of such a future. Exigent and unyielding, they entangle with the world and require people to act like they’d have predicted. It is perhaps of huge inconvenience for their victims, but it is vital for them. If predictions cannot be believed to be accurate, then dangers cannot be avoided.

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Imperator of Prosthesis, Self-expression, and Nanotechnologies

The golden future envisionned by the Lady Anderade ...

meshes with human flesh

rely on technology

increases body capabilities

connects people to machines

allow people to chose their own appearance freely

In this utopic future humanity reached immortality through cybernetic modifications. Implants, replacements, augmentations. An artificial heart that is more reliable and can be replaced once its warranty has expired. It is a place of self expression, where people’s bodies have become freely and fully customisable. It isn’t like these dystopia riddled with megacorporations, also. Implants and modifications are free, anyone can 3D print them at home, and they effortlessly integrate themselves in people’s bodies. In order to bring about this future, she has become a caretaker of the research facilities where such technologies are devellopped. She work to better them, to immortalize humanty using these as tools. She inspires others to follow in her work. She can grant them blessings, blessings of self expression or physical augmentation, giving them a taste of this future.

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Imperator of Workers, Fishes and Honey

The golden future envisionned by Xalent

is made of meat

is slimy

is sticky

is golden

nourishes royalty

is good for human health

is being made, continuously, by bees

In the utopia this Lightlord envisions, Honey has been refined to a perfect and ultimate form: a nectar that prolongs life indefinitely. With it, humanity can thrive and stave off death, and devellop. Their technology rely now on nutriments, on flesh and meat. This is a future not of metal but of slime. This is a necessity. Industrialization, after all, was killing the bees. Speaking of Bees, they are fundamental to the bringing about of this future. To protect them and nurture them, Xalent has worked to bring them into her domains. Now categorized as Fish, Bees can be slowly resculpted by the Regina, until they reach their full potential as creators of the Nectar of Immortality. Xalent also nurtures the communities of humankind, concerning herself with the workers, and making factories or unions her places of power. She’s reshaping them, slowly and surely, in order to oppose the dangers of industrialisation that threaten the bees, but also, to better the living conditions of humanity. In her pursuits, she must fight carefully, painfully, and often, with the Dark. More importantly, probably, she has to keep her agenda hidden. Her visions rely nearly entirely on Bees, and, were a Darklord to discover it, smothering her utopia could be quite too easy in this day and age.

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Imperator of Lucubrations, Stuffed Animals, and Picturebooks

Envisions a golden future that

is safe

rely on artifices

is creative in its work processes

deviates from the current world

is inconsistent with history and facts

come to life when people read

In this golden future humanity has been immortalized through fiction, or, rather through fictionalisation. Humans have been made the subject of stories, and, when these stories are read, they come back to life.

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Imperator of the Food Chain, Archery ranges and Pits,

The golden future envisionned by Wöfnir ...

... frequently sees roles in society reversed,

... is full of dangers,

... rely on knowledge of one’s environment and quarry,

... has mortals continuously on the chase,

... provides what humans need to keep on living,

... makes copious uses of convoluted traps

In the future Wöfnir envisions for humankind, mortals have forcibly placed themselves at the top of the foodchain. In it, mankind is the apex predator of, most importantly, not just the Earth, but rather, all of Creation. Immortality for them is something to hunt for, something they can maintain by riping out the Hearts of immortal monsters of the Ash and consuming them as a collective.

As a care taker of the gardens of mankind, Wöfnir is mostly concerned with Archery ranges and Pits, places where mortals hone their crafts as hunters, and these where quarry cannot escape the fate dictated by the hunters anymore. Wöfnir however teaches more by example and inspiration than by using institutions.

The blessings Wöfnir grants inspired by zir vision turns mortals into better hunters, better monster slayers. Ze inspires the world to zir estates by being not always present, often distant from the world, stalking it, and only appearing as people wander into zir killing grounds.

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Imperator of Dipplomacy, Heels, and the Bath

The golden future envisionned by Shunerma ...

 rely on layers upon layers of compromises

prevents any form of conflict

 is artfull

 has rules that must be followed

 offers mortals anything they want at the end of a conversation

In the golden future envisionned by Shunerma, humanity reached immortality not by mastering the science of medecine, but that of dipplomacy. By being master negociators, they have reached compromises and pacts of non aggression with almost all of the things of creation, leading to a state where Knives for instance are bound to their word to not kill Humans, and thus simply would not.

To try and bring about this vision to the world, Shunerma inspires mortals to learn dipplomacy and better their crafts at it. In doing so, Shunerma embodies the transcendental experience of negociation, and of reaching compromises.

Shunerma's chancel is a gigantic bathub filled with water, the surface of which is full of soap bubles. On its borderkeep are very large dogs that acts as guides: to reach the palace at the center of the Chancel, which sits atop a giang plastic duck, one must convince one of the dog to go into the water and grab them while they swim towards the palace. The bubles of soap of the bathwater form indeed a labyrinth of sort, and appart from the dogs only the Nobles and Imperator of the Chancel knows the way towards its center.

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Manestilla, Light Magister of Object Impermanence, Geneva, and Sunday

The golden future envisionned by Manestilla ...

 has forgotten all about modern technology

 will forget it again, if it ever rediscovers it

 is very traditionnal

 do not seek technological progress

 is one of uninterrupted peace

 is run by rigid rules concerning governance, commerce and travel

 lack natural ressources such as fossil fuels

Manestilla saw humanity develop tools, and saw it was good. Manestilla saw humanity develop animal husbandry, and saw it was good. Then Manestilla saw humanity develop weapons, and was worried. Weapons were used by mortals trying to kill other mortals, and they saw it was bad. Manestilla saw in it the influences of the dark, twisting every new advances in technology to produce new types of weapons become deadlier and deadlier. For Manestilla, humanity itself and its excesses are currently humans' most dangerous enemy. Humanity wouldn't be extinguished by most of the current cosmic forces, baring an Excrucian victory; Heaven is mostly fond of humans, and Hell too. Even the Game itself is, in the end, restricted in its destructive options by the mortals' toolkit... however Humanity could create a weapon so dangerous that it could destroy itself.

This is, ultimately, what Manestilla wants to prevent.  In their vision for humanity, the future has forgotten most of our modern technologies, and thus, weapons. No longer is it possible for a war criminal to kill off hundreds of thousands of people. Humanity still strive for progress and inventions, but will inevitably forget them times after times, never reaching a point were its weapons would endanger the survival of the specie itself.

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Lord Mirua, Light Magister of Dojos, Mountaintops, the Streets and Mindfulness.

The golden future envisionned by Lord Miura,

holds mentorship in high regards,

is maintained by the passage of esoteric martial arts from generations to generations,

 has seen humanity develop superhuman athletic abilities,

focuses on the redirection of energy to strengthen the body,

emphasize technique over brute strength,

is ruled by the mighty,

is filled with violence.

In this vision of a golden future for mankind, Humanity has reached immortality through the mastery of esoteric martial arts. People can now use meditation, mindfulness and focus to redirect energies through their bodies and heal themselves of any disease, and even old age. This dream was birthed in part when the Zu masters reached immortality through their aptitude in magic. If the Zu could reach immortality by becoming Adept, then surely any human could.

Lord Miura is a keeper of humanity's gardens, and in particular tend to its Dojos, to places where martial arts are transmitted from master to students. Mirua also nurture Mountaintops, places of meditation, calm and serenity: ideal for breathing exercices. Gardening to try to make his vision come to fruition, he, like all lightlord, also exudes toxins that changes thoses around him. His in particular increases the energies and ki of the mortals around him, often leading them to develop muscular mass and unatural abilities. Lord Miura further inspires mortals by bestowing blessings inspired by his utopia, esoteric techniques from potential futures: Phantom steps, Dragon fist, Seismic Dropkick, Wolf Supplex or Devil’s Palm. Not only one does he brings his Blessings to others, he also uses them for himself. An intense creature, he is and embodies the experience of growing one's strength through mental training, discipline and physical exercises.

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Lore 7: “Exarch” Example

Azbogah is the angel of Grace, Plot holes and Loftiness. They are a deep influence upon the whole cosmos; Their level of Lore makes them transformative; and because they influence and change the world with Grace and Loftiness, so does Heaven's influence descends upon the Ash and change it with graciousness and lofty ideals. At their level, Heaven's grace is mixed up with Azbogah's, and it no longer possible to distinguish between them. They have become a font of it, a font of Grace, Plot holes and Loftiness. It is from Azbogah that these are birthed. Sometimes, they can even birth Angels. When they wish to find grace somewhere, they need only to focus their attention and it appears all around. The same is true, however, for Plot holes. At this level of Lore, and thus of Fugue, Azbogah have become quite oblivious to the impact of these.

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Lore 7: “Exarch” Example

Nahaliel is the angel of Gardens, Streams, Patio and Brightness. The voice of Heaven is no longer separeted from their consciousness: rather, they have merged with it, their mind one with the will of the creator. Their Sphere are at the heart of Heaven, they define and shape it;

Indeed in the center of Heaven stands the Water Gardens. They are beautiful. They birthed some of the Angels, flesh of the celestial realm. Beneath the gardens flow rivers, which descend towards canyons and gorges, into the valleys of heaven, carrying with them the beauty of the realm until they trickle down toward the rest of creation. Heaven's lakes and streams glitter with an ever present Brightness, and the marble columns of its Patio do shine like precious stones. It is said there has always been such things in Heaven, even though there were once no such concepts as gardens or rivers, or liquids, or brightness.

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Lore 6: “Arcanist” Example

Mahenoras is the angel of Panthera, Poltergeists, Mint and Mist. He has attained mastery of his Arcana, of their use and of their powers. He can distill their essence and paint the world with their qualities ; infuses himself with the speed of a Panthera, or bind a ghost to a boat, turning it into a phantom ship. His Arcana are the main tool he uses to interract with the world, and he can devellop plans based on their abilities, plans to devellop them and stretch their powers. To protect a plant of Mint, he can teach its leaves to freeze in ice anyone that'd eat them. He can make plans to shield a whole town from an army’s view, by shrouding it in mist.

As an Angel, he is also an Adept, a practitionner of the magical arts - but these are close to his Sphere, given how much he has drunk from the lore of his Arcana. Like most magicians, he has Bonds and Techniques associated with his arts, rules he must follows. As an wielder of Ghost Magic, he is stuck helping ghost with their unresolved issues, and as a wielder of Faery Magic, being clear is taboo for him.

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Lore 6: “Arcanist” Example

Uradonniel is the angel of Ranks, Diadems, Soldiers and Folders. Her mastery of authority and titles allows her to defend against other arcana, or cast them out. She can navigate and understand Folders, and, extrapolating from them, understand the principles for manipulating the hidden strata accross all of Creation. From this kind of extrapolation also she has learned to adapt the rituals she crafted to bring about Diadems and use them instead to bring forth other elements, like Shields or Arrows. A radiant battlemaster, she can command vast armies of soldiers, and if she so desires she can use them to overcome vast regions, like the Tyrants and Hordes of old.

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Lore 5: “Perquisitor“ Example

Seizing glory, cutting down aspirations, such are the skills and talents devellopped by Admonicuciel, angel of Glory, Aspirations, Electromagnetic Fields and the North Wind. The voice of the Creator is a constant presence in her head, one she needs no longer actively pay attention to. She understands the deep undercurrents of Heaven and, as its energies trickles down on it, of Creation.