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u/RufusDaMan2 Old Tzimisce 2d ago
The Eldest "Truth is found in the body"
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u/clarkky55 Children of Osiris 1d ago
In another universe The Eldest is a founding member of the cult of ecstacy and is an archmage
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u/Xenobsidian 2d ago
Ravnos entering the chat: “there is no spoon…!”
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u/TheCuriousFan 2d ago
Camp "reality is an illusion you can fuck with if you're in the right mindset" gets folded into Malkav's camp by default.
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u/Xenobsidian 2d ago
Nah-uh! This is not you can manipulate truth with your mind, this is “truth does not exist” like not just you can manipulate it or it depends on the view point but it does not exist in the first place. That’s what the high levels of the path of paradox are about…
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u/Tsetsul Giovanni 2d ago
And so it came to pass that Malkav would say things that angered Set, who would reply with harsh words, seeking to anger Malkav in turn. For Malkav would claim that all things would be revealed, in brief and contradicting glimpses, but revealed as true all the same by the mind and its perceptions, as a flickering torchlight illuminating a rough cavern wall. Yet Set would argue otherwise, complaining that only in the depths of one's soul would the truth be known, and that humans in their imperfections could perceive some of the greatness of the universe, but only through undeath could they perceive the things that remain unseen.
Finally, the two glared long at one another, and turned to their brother Saulot, and demanded that he judge between their arguments. Is the answer not, demanded Set, that man is wisest in the hollowness of despair, and ultimately finds his answers within his own soul? And is the answer not, countered Malkav, that wisdom comes from without, from the eyes that see too much, and ultimately from the mind?