Ouroboros Retrograde - plot role info

[powersthatbe]

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[powersthatare]

Pillars are accepted socially, but nobody wants to be a Pillar - no Dreamer wants to give into to despair.

[scarsolderthanyou]

Yeah, I couldn't explain what I meant really, I know nobody WANTS to be it, but is it considered more normal and useful and part of the journey from champ to oracle than, say, abherent or to be avoided at all costs? Less pitied or avoided, and more to be supported and intentionally included so as to intentionally bring them into Oracle?

[powersthatare]

Yes. Most Champions and Oracles never go Pillar, but Pillaring is a recognized risk of the lifestyle and no more shunned than any other occupational hazard.

[scarsolderthanyou]

But it is considered a risk and a hazard, not something natural, the way in later times Adversary is considered natural. That was what I was after :P

Additional questions... how long have the timelines been converging? Long enough for tentative friendships to form, or is it brand new as of the start of the Jaunt? Like, does the council of senpai know each other already coming into the Jaunt, have they shared info, or are they meeting for the first time in the first mingle?

[powersthatare]

It became visible to Oracles that Ouroboros would go into retrograde about a week before the first mingle, and occasional communication through the mists might have been possible, but only a few words or a few moments. When the first mingle goes up, it's been about three hours since everyone first met in person.

[scarsolderthanyou]

Last question (for now). How hard/easy would it be to work out the time differences between their worlds? Like, Lupa and Stone are both Spartoi, could Stone just ask "what year is it" and then be able to say "so there's 300 years between us" and hunt down another spartoi from the future timeline and do the same? (If there is one. Might not be :) )

[powersthatare]

Unfortunately, Spartoi, vodyanoi, and elves don't have a unified calendar system between different subcultures. Gorgons, who don't care about the cycle of seasons, likewise would find it hard to track the time. Humans from the same cultures, or Hecatites of any culture, would be the only people who can easily tell the time gap between the Rise & Double Valence generations (the gap between Double Valence and Starquake is small enough that only Spartoi and vodyanoi would have trouble communicating the time gap between tribal groups, and within tribal groups they'd have no problem).

[scarsolderthanyou]

I was afraid of that :P

One more try before I give up on having that particular info: would the "oracle of age" (as that's Stone's archetype) be able to get a rough estimate of such things, or not so much?

[whatspringislike]

Actually, given that Archetype, yeah, that makes sense.