Origin of MAW

just finished rereading a pratchett book, dealing with long existing entities that are semi-real, metaphysical, meta-phenomenal … looking for ways into our reality. What if MERC encountered one of these? What if he became the avatar of one?

What force moved the wizard, causing him to wander from place to place. He could feel it sometimes, as if it were not his own curiosity, or his own wandering, but as in a dream - where some knowledge far outside of his own mind was driving him along the steps of a monumental task.
#maw #timeline #origin
__origin_ERAS of Merc - Around 2800

It was of course, peculiar that Merc couldn’t remember when this mission of sorts started. Well- not overly peculiar, since over the centuries many details sieved through memory, leaving behind only forebodings and practical, wizardly ways. Why is a sphere of protection never marked with one the same color on the inside and outside? He was sure he’d learned the theoretical underpinning, but it was simply practical, nearly physical knowledge.
(Note, this is because defining the barrier on both sides disallows a secondary barrier/line or erasure from shifting the arcane force field with the user INSIDE, which would have disastrously messy consequences unless those on the interior are partial to existing as a finely blended organic slushie of their previous self. )

But this mission… he was unsure whether he had ever embarked upon with intention, as opposed to the intention creeping up on him slowly as various techno magic had continued to assemble in stowage under his home.

So either Merc had forgotten why he’d started, or something else had taken hold of him for it own purpose.

Again, Merc was sketchy on the details of this line of thought as well. What the old had called demons often took shape now as mental psychoses, or were instantiated in mind viruses. But this wasn’t it, he was much to old and practical to be much use to any mind demon and mental algorithm, the kind younger fold ran into that made them obsessively collect bits of a components like some machine assembly. Occasionally those did manage to construct themselves into a more dangerous physical form through their intermediaries, but mostly they just resolved in large piles of e-waste that couldn’t bootstrap itself into anything approaching a mind

This thing… for as he thought about it more, it was distinctly THING-Y, thing like, wasn’t a demon like, mind, nothing human about, nothing that was SEEKING life , or a body. It was seeking… a means to a means. Not to an end, but to a change of state. Like much magic, and much technology itself,. The means was neither good, nor bad, nor desirous, but it INTENDED to come about. To actualize it’ll.

This is why it had seized upon Merc, n although seized was quite an active way to centralizing on the longest lived… magic mechanic in the businesses.

Merc had always, and would always seek to find the fix. To help and encourage others too, those who were looking to technology, or small magics to find their way. It was his intention as well, finding their way things fit together. Perhaps becaue he had never been much interested in people, as opposed to the things they created, and they way the things they created then recreated them. The masteries becoming the masters. Every tech programmer of the last few centuries had programmed themselves into dependence on the machines they wrote the code for.

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Will add more, I think of a long term sort. The TECHNO FORCE (of some kind) the ACCELERATION CURVE. It is the SPIRIT OF INFINITE, the COUNTING OF SMALLER AND SMALLER INFINITIES. It NEEDS and MUST increase, it always will. It will build upon itself, and finally, it had found a way to break through, becoming an active force that shapes the world. Through technology and magic, it will rewrite things
( I think this can create the magic beasts.)

Merc could team up with RASTA WIZARD to try and find a way to have this force seek BALANCE.

There is a work of apocalypse and trash, but if the trash heaps animate themselves with techno magic, and turn into the animals, creatures and spirits of a new world, they can feed on the TRASH, on the RADIATION, a different form of “life”, of reflected INTENTION. Maybe one that ultimately seeks to perpetuate itself into NEW FORMS

NEW FORMS

AND SOME OF THESE ARE HEAVEY HEAVEY HEAVY FORMSSS

2026 Thoughts…

Like PETROMARXISM - is technology a force that is alive…? Is it the use of resource, is it the ‘mind’ of metal.

Perhaps #norloc the artificer - realizes that MERC is bearing the techno force, and has been using it slowly, for good, improving peoples, lives, focusing on artisans, bringing forth unique forms and beautiful sculptures, arts..

e wishes to use it to DOMINATE, so he CURSES MERC in some way, driving him a bit insane, making the techno force resonate with evil energy of consumption and dominance. Or he could trick MERC in some way… work with him on a task, but secretly being attracting the techno force to some new state - one of chaotic unbalance.

Settling a new strange chaotic attractor.

Chaos attractor = fundamentally unbalanced… this is what drives the force to increasing cycles of AMPLITUDE ACTIVATION, higher peaks of intensity.

Multiple people can access the force, but only MERC holds the key… since he was there from the beginning. He can be like the “INITIAL CONDITIONS - the initial patterning”

And in order to separate the FORCE from #norloc machinations - he has to “free it” make it more self determinant, so it can’t be used blindly, but must be negotiated.

Merc midwifes it into self-knowledge and direction.

The new force searches him, it looks through centuries… maybe millennia past, to understand how the world works, how it has been used to shape things.

• it recoils, reviles but also REJOICES in it’s power
• Even as that power was used to harm others