nWoD Origins - Mage the Awakening Pt 1

DeTzardis - http://uk.youtube.com/user/DeTzardis

Not the exalted video I promised, but an attempt to mash all the setting origins together in to a cohesive look at the incredible depth within the World of Darkness. Enjoy!

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[PhanXu2]

What you were describing at the beginning is quantum physics. Things only exist if something percieves it. The question"If a branch falls in the forest and no-one is there does it make a sound?" is a trick question. It doesn't, but only because if there is no-one to percieve the branch falling - it doesn't fall. This means the universe did not exist until someone was there to percieve it. God? I don't know. My guess is a very small fish.

[Chromemagnus]

Lol. A fine guess! And yes indeed. Gotta love those Quantum Physics ;)

[tzimsce]

Many Thanks for the review. You have just saved me trying to read that section for the 3rd time having previously fell asleep twice before. Listening to you talk about it def easier than reading it. 

Looking forward to the Werewolf part.

Cheers

[Chromemagnus]

Heh. No worries mate!

At some point I'll cover the actual playable setting for Mage, at which point I'll go deeper in to Exarchs and all that good stuff. ;)

But if that helped, that's brilliant! Cheers for the comment.

[lilikesound]

Great review! Just relax a little, you know? Your hand gestures reminded me of the Gentleman Gamer a bit..no hard feelings tho? Keep up the good wrk

[basic204]

You ever going to finish the origins and how they are connected i would love to watch it

[ShinobuHarvester]

@CrestofLoki Yeppers. He also mixed up his personal beliefs, the astral, the supernal and oWoD cosmology. Still a decent explanation!

I would also like to say that a lot of people are turned off by the Atlantis thing...this is just a name for the concept of a singular pre-historical source of mystic lineages that many mages do not believe in. Isator Levi and others on the official Mage forums detail some other views for the consideration of anyone with a severe hate-on for this

hatewordlimit

[CrestofLoki]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this "history" merely written as the most common belief of mages, much in the way of the beliefs of the "races" fro the other books.

[cabezonx]

Awsome! Cheers on the video. Great explanation, great involvment in what you say and you have a great way of capturing the mind of the listener for it to follow you down through the path of your imagination.

Seems nearely as if you were a mage yourself!

[Aberrant23]

REALLY GERAT way of expslaining i'm totaly with you! Much respect

[lamewing]

@PhanXu2 Um, no. The idea of observation affecting reality works at the quantum level, not at the gross material level that we exist. The branch does fall if no one is there to see it.

[woodwwad]

I agree DeTzardis has some good vids

[longstrider9999]

Weeeeel, that was more important on the Old WoD, now the new setting has a little more tendency to croos game and an overall background setting, before every game was its own thing and cosmology, now it seems all have at least one basis, and you gotta admit there are similitudes with the world of darkness book "setting" and "origin" story, and mage the awakening story...also I do find the idea of atlantis as bullshit, but hell im no developer =S

[TacticusPrime]

You don't really NEED Mage the Awakening, cuz they understand the world from their perspective and the other supers understand it from their own perspectives.

If you think the Mages are right, then you are right. But if you want to believe the world began as a hunter's paradise or whatever than you would be right again.

NWoD specifically is designed with paradoxes and contradictions, you just pick what you want to be real in your game.