[Torg] Home Cosms

[Kansas Jim]

Travis James Hall wrote:

[Steve Crow wrote:]

>> 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.
> 
> That's because generally they weren't. The process used by the Darkness

Actually there is one indication of it, the Living Land sourcebook says
that Kaah used stelae during his conquest of Tatka Ker. Most of us
just overlook that because it doesn't really make much sense for
him to have done that, and as the first and weakest of the sourcebooks
it's probably not all that trustworthy. My guess has been that the LL
book was being written while they were still hashing out the cosmology
so it's possible that the underlying concepts changed and no one caught
that it would affect material in the LL SB.

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>> (I'm not sure why less inherent/native 
>> possibilities in a cosm = more pure zones.)

> Creating a contradiction requires Possibility Energy. Less Possibility
> Energy means less contradictions. No contradictions = pure zone.

Pretty much. Or to flip it, more P-Energy means more contradictions,
more contradictions => dominant.

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> We have been told that other cosms are poorer in Possibility Energy than
> Earth, so (knowing what we do about cosmology) they should generally have
> more pure zones than Earth. That doesn't necessarily mean they are
> pure-majority, just that they have more pure zones than Earth.

> Somewhere it might actually be stated that other cosms are generally
> majority-pure, but I don't remember where if it does.

It does say that somewhere, or something like Core Earth is an exception
to the rule because it is mostly dominant reality instead of pure, but I
don't recall offhand. My guess would be somewhere in the newsletters but
on a quick search I'm not turning anything up.

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