[Torg] Home Cosms

[Steve Crow]

Don't remember if it says somewhere, but could someone remind me...?

Are home cosms pure, dominant, or some mix? (if the latter, similar to Core Earth's, or greater/lesser?)

A few caveats:

1) For the sake of argument, let's stick to Aysle, Magna Verita, Tharkold, Marketplace, and Takta Ker. Mobius never conquered Terra, and the Gaunt Man's Fear possibility draining/restoration/draining seems to muddy the considerations.

2) Although the Possibility Raiders are described as raiders, in the sense that they move from one cosm to another, draining it as they go and leave a train of Possibility-dessicated worlds behind them, in fact only Mobius and the Gaunt Man do this. While their plan of invasion forms a chain (A drained, onto B, B drained, onto C, and so on), the others seems to form a wheel. (A as home base, move to B, drain B, back to A. Then move to C, drain C, back to A. And so on.) And the Gaunt Man seems to have embraced the "home base cosm" concept since moving to Gaea.

3) Once a stelae triangle is established for five years, it no longer provides possibilities (everything has transformed) and costs a Darkness Device a certain amount of energy to maintain while gaining no benefit for the expenditure.

4) Given #3 is correct, any home cosms covered in pure zones after the five-year period would soon become a detriment to the Darkness Device and abandoned as it and its High Lord move on to repeat the process.

5) There's no indication that the five home cosms were ever "transformed" or that stelae were planted to dran the energy of these worlds. There were some tinkering and resculpting of the existing World Laws, but nothing actually transformative tio what was native to the cosm.

6) Core Earth is inherently dominant except for a few relatively rare locales. While other cosms may not have the same massive amount of possibility energy, it seem reasonable that they would default to dominant with a few relatively rare locales as well. (I'm not sure why less inherent/native possibilities in a cosm = more pure zones.)

7) Interview With Evil and the Gaunt Man's rapid spread, drain, and destruction of Kurst's  cosm in a period of days/weeks shouldn't be considered canon. Like much of that book. :)

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With all that, it seems like the five "home base cosms" listed above would be primarily dominant. Granted, dominant reality is meaningless when everyone there has the same reality. However, as several WEG books suggest, there seems to be a market for Storm Knight to venture forth into these cosms. So knowing how easily a Storm Knight can wield his reality in a differing cosm seems important. Certainly there's a big difference between functioning in a dominant zone vs. a pure zone! :)

On the other hand, it seems like a home base cosm's reality should be... stronger than dominant without being pure. Otherwise, say, a squadron of Storm Knights flying bombers up-bridge from Oxford to Aysle and going after the Corrupt Houses and aiding Tolwyn in battle seems a bit too easy to pull off.

Thoughts?

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Steve Crow

"Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority."

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