#robert smirk

[kniemr]

uhm hi hi hello?? This has definitely already been talked about but in Mag35 (Old Passages), the 14 pathways symbolise the 14 fears imhfbdgdjdjDHDJDHF

[shakespeare-will-world]

Роберт Смёрк – Венецианский купец, акт IV, Сцена суда. Коллекция Королевской шекспировской театральной труппы ~ Стрэтфорд-на-Эйвоне Robert Smirk - The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Court Scene. Collection of the Royal Shakespeare Theater Company ~ Stratford-upon-Avon

[incandescent-creativity]

I gotta say, evil architect is not usually something one sees in fiction

[statementends]

So this is the design of Milbank Prison the tunnels of which are what’s under the Magnus institute. Jonah had big plans for Milbank trying to hire Jonathan Fanshaw, and as mentioned by Smirk might have some Architectual significants to the Watcher’s crown. 

I didn’t really think long and hard about which were balancing which, but my main theory is that the Eye was supposed to watch over the other fears while the fears kept each other in balance. Flesh isn’t included because at the time Flesh wasn’t one of the Dread Powers. 

[statementends]

Work in progress: 

So here’s how I think Smirk’s Fourteen Fears balance. Explanation under the cut. The Bloody 3 (Flesh, Slaughter, and Hunt) gave me some trouble. If anyone has input I’d love to hear about it. 

I’ve also tried to group similar powers together. It might be a circle isn’t the best representation of the balance because some I feel could be closer to others (Shrug). I also have a bit on where I think extinction might fit in.

I found it interesting that no matter how I paired things the Beholding and the Lonely always ended up on opposite or near opposite sides of the board.  

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Beholding Vs Stranger: The Eye can’t see the stranger, but the stranger can be seen by the eye. They can’t exist in their end games

Web Vs Spiral: You can’t have Control in a mad world where nothing makes sense. You can’t have nonsense when everything is being guided by something else. Can’t exist in their endgames

Hunt Vs End: End is tricky because it sorta wipes the board, but the hunt hates the end of a chase. If there is still something to be hunted then there hasn’t come an end. 

Slaughter Vs Flesh: This one seems like it shouldn’t work, my thinking on it is that Slaughter is about unmotivated violence while the Flesh is about being bred to be consumed. The Flesh is animal fear, but there’s a practicality in it, while the slaughter there isn’t practicality, it’s random suffering. Admittedly my weakest connection, but I think there’s something to it. 

Vast vs Buried: Self explanatory I think. 

Lonely vs Filth: In the stories of the Hives the hosts find that they no longer feel alone with their burrowing insects. Even expanding it to disease, disease comes from things, other people, animals. A lonely world would have everything separate, nothing effecting each other. So neither can exist well in each other’s end game.

Dark vs Desolation: Yes it is called the lightless flame, but the Dark is a fear of what you can’t see in the dark. The Lightless Flame is deliberately cruel destruction. My argument is that Desolation revels when you see it coming, while the dark is all about anticipation of what’s there. 

Extinction isn’t on my wheel but either it would go between end and dark and have it’s own balance of another unknown entity, or it’s in the center of this circle made up of all or some of the powers and by doing so negating all of them.

So yeah, if anyone has any thoughts tell me what you think. 

[lackofcuriosity]

Robert Smirk