[quote=Anne Auclair]
Don’t those Seeking Mr Eaten’s name essentially become Mr Eaten?
edited by Anne Auclair on 4/28/2017[/quote]
No, not really. They emulate Eaten, but they’re not him.
What makes you think that? Words like "hate" and "grieve" don’t seem like they lead to happy things? ;)
It’s hard to talk about this stuff in general, because sometimes there are definite answers, but they’re on the other side of the gate. I’ll be d—ed if I’m the one to say things openly on the forums, though.
edited by Pumpkinhead on 4/28/2017
I wouldn’t even say that Salt’s story can’t have a happy ending. It’s not over yet, after all. “One came below, long ago, seeking what the Sun had hid. One will rise, one day, to face the White in its hall of poisoned crystal.” Who knows what may happen?
[quote=Pumpkinhead][quote=Anne Auclair]
Don’t those Seeking Mr Eaten’s name essentially become Mr Eaten?
edited by Anne Auclair on 4/28/2017[/quote]
No, not really. They emulate Eaten, but they’re not him.[/quote]
If the process is anything like attaining Salt’s Song, they become him. Not in the possession sense, not in a personal identity sense, but in a spiritual sense. As in, they went through what Salt/Eaten went through, they are emptied and shaped in the same way, and they are now what Salt/Eaten are. That’s why they can learn the Song/Name, because they have lost what Salt/Eaten lost and the Song/Name are what they lost.
It’s not dissimilar from how Neoplatonic mystics sought god. The Source of everything is fundamentally unknowable to reason - the only way to know the Source is to return to it, become it, experience it.
So if a Seeker is successful enough to learn the Name and go North, then they are Mr Eaten and will do whatever Mr Eaten would…
What makes you think that? Words like "hate" and "grieve" don’t seem like they lead to happy things? ;)
It’s hard to talk about this stuff in general, because sometimes there are definite answers, but they’re on the other side of the gate. I’ll be d—ed if I’m the one to say things openly on the forums, though.
edited by Pumpkinhead on 4/28/2017[/quote]
Well, Salt’s story to my knowledge isn’t fate locked. When Captain Wilhelm Westenra [spoiler]stole the zeppelin and flew into the East he met Salt, his heirs received the following legacy:
edited by Anne Auclair on 4/28/2017