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Post by Cale on Jul 20, 2018 13:20:55 GMT -6
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Post by Cale on Jul 16, 2018 15:22:07 GMT -6
Here I thought the Grand Grimoire and Gospel of Satan were the same book.
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Post by Cale on Jul 13, 2018 15:44:17 GMT -6
Johannes manipulated Alfred and the other alchemists into creating these crystal harbouring bodies of Miriam and Gebel, his goal is to unite them so they can create, or become the alchemical magnum opus, Rebis, the divine hermaphrodite. To what ends I am not yet sure, I think he wishes to save mankind through knowledge of the divine, maybe recreate Adam Kadmon? I have yet to play the beta but I am starting to think that Johannes is working with Dominique, or the church... Mostly I am hoping that it will not be another "Search for the Philosophers Stone" story, but instead it is a misguided attempt to save humanity.
After all, it's an alchemist's sacred duty to prove perfection is attainable.
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Post by Cale on Jul 12, 2018 19:54:50 GMT -6
I was excited to learn the Voynich Manuscript has had a breakthrough in translating it. Kinda ruins the mystery for it, but still. Oh? News to me, but great to know!
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Post by Cale on Jul 12, 2018 16:22:23 GMT -6
Yay! More discussions on Lore and all things esoteric! I actually see a lot of overlap with games and history, mysticism. Legends and games go hand in hand to me. Dark Souls does a great job of this, Anor Londo and Il Duomo, Domhnall and Henry VIII, Lost Izalith and Angkor Wat. I love when a game incorporates real life. I feel Bloodstained is already doing a great job. When I heard they drew inspiration from the Laki Volcano I was excited! And what's better than ancient texts? The Liber Loagaeth and the Ars Goetia are musts for a game revolving around alchemy. I am hoping from tons of Grimoires in this game, or at the very least ancient books. We could use the Voynich Manuscript, the Heptameron, the Picatrix or Ghayat al Hikam, the Oera Linda Book, and of course we need the so-called “Grand Grimoire”, aka “The Red Dragon”, aka the “Gospel of Satan.”
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Post by Cale on Jul 7, 2018 21:21:27 GMT -6
I love the idea of the Castle being supported by demons. I am still banking on the Alchemy theories for the main plot and canon ending. Johannes being evil mastermind, Gebel and Miriam needing to unite to become whole. I am hoping for historic accounts tying in all over the place ( Laki volcanic fissure anyone? ). Also, this long read from my 2016 post. I have been rereading some things on alchemy and looking over what Canopus wrote, I have some more revelations. The Red King [Rubedo/Gebel/Animus?] and White Queen [Albedo/Miriam/Anima?] are alchemical allegories, and their union represents the process of uniting opposites to create a greater, fully unified product of that union. This particular image comes from the Rosarium Philosophorum, or the Rosary or the Philosophers. It was published in 1550 and included twenty illustrations. Gender Divisions: Western thought has long identified a wide variety of concepts as being masculine or feminine. Fire and air are masculine while earth and water are feminine, for example. The sun is male and the moon is female. These basic ideas and associations can be found in multiple Western schools of thought. So the first and most obvious interpretation is that the Red King represents masculine elements while the White Queen represents female ones. Here they stand on a sun and moon, respectively. In some images, they are also flanked with plants bearing suns and moons on their branches. The Chemical Marriage: The union of Red King and White Queen is often called the chemical marriage. In illustrations, it is depicted as courtship and sex. Sometimes they are garbed, as if just starting to be brought together, offering each other flowers. Sometimes they are naked, preparing for consummation of their marriage that will eventually lead to an allegorical offspring, the Rebis (from the Latin res bina, meaning dual or double matter). Sulfur and Mercury: Descriptions of alchemical processes often describe the reactions of sulfur and mercury. The Red King is sulfur, the active, volatile and fiery principle, while the White Queen is mercury, the material, passive, fixed principle. Mercury has substance, but is has no definitive form on its own. It needs an active principle to shape it. The lettering here has the King saying, in Latin, "O Luna, let me be thy husband," reinforcing the marriage imagery. The Queen, however, says "O Sol, I must submit to thee." This would have also been standard sentiment in a Renaissance marriage, but it also reinforces the nature of the passive principle. Activity needs material to take physical form, but passive material needs definition to be anything more than potential. The Dove: A person is comprised of three separate components: body, soul and spirit. The body is material and the soul spiritual. Spirit is a sort of bridge that connects the two. Here the dove (a common symbol of the Holy Spirit in Christianity, in comparison to God the Father (soul) and God the Son (body) offers a third rose, attracting both lovers together and acting as a sort of mediator between their contrasting natures. Alchemical Processes: The bringing together of the Red King and White Queen is sometimes described as reflecting the processes of both Albedo and Rubedo. Now. . . How does this all come back to Gebel? The three alchemical stages preceding Rubedo (Gebel) were: Nigredo (blackness) which represented putrefication and spiritual death. It is a subjectively experienced process brought about by the subject's painful, growing awareness of his shadow aspects'. It could be described as a moment of maximum despair, that is a prerequisite to personal development. As individuation unfolds, so 'confrontation with the shadow produces at first a dead balance, a standstill that hampers moral decisions and makes convictions ineffective or even impossible...nigredo, tenebrositas, chaos, melancholia'. Albedo (whiteness/Miriam) which represented purification. The alchemist undertakes a purification in Albedo, which is literally referred to as ablutio – the washing away of impurities. In this process, the subject is divided into two opposing principles to be later coagulated to form a unity of opposites or coincidentia oppositorum during Rubedo. Citrinitas (yellowness) literally referred to "transmutation of silver into gold" or "yellowing of the lunar consciousness." In alchemical philosophy, Citrinitas stood for the dawning of the "solar light" inherent in one's being, and that the reflective "lunar or soul light" was no longer necessary.; the solar dawn or awakening. Then Rubedo the fourth and final major stage in their magnum opus. Rubedo signalled alchemical success, and the end of the great work. But one thing still makes me wonder... The Rebis. After one has gone through the stages of putrefaction (Nigredo) and purification (Albedo), separating opposing qualities, those qualities are united once more in what is sometimes described as the divine hermaphrodite, a reconciliation of spirit and matter, a being of both male and female qualities as indicated by the male and female head within a single body. The sun and moon correspond to the male and female halves, just as the Red King and White Queen are similarly associated. The Rebis image appeared in the work Azoth of the Philosophers by Basil Valentine in 1613. During the 18th century it was suggested that the author of the works attributed to Basil Valentine was Johann Thölde ( Johannes!), a salt manufacturer in Germany who lived roughly 1565–1624. Azoth was considered to be a universal medication or universal solvent sought in alchemy (similar to another alchemical idealized substance, alkahest, that like azoth was the aim, goal and vision of many alchemical works). Its symbol was the Caduceus, and so the term, while originally a term for an occult formula sought by alchemists much like the philosopher's stone, became a poetic word for the element mercury. The word Azoth is also related to the Ain Soph (ultimate substance) of the Kabbalah(Johannes again). In his masterwork The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Manly P. Hall explained this connection: "The universe is surrounded by the sphere of light or stars. Beyond that sphere is Schamayim (שמים), the Hebrew word for 'heaven', who is the Divine Fiery(Gebel) Water(Miriam), the first outflow of the Word of God, the flaming river pouring from the presence of the eternal mind. Schamayim, who is this fiery Androgyne, divides. His Fire becomes Solar fire and his Water becomes Lunar water in our universe. Schamayim is the Universal Mercury or Azoth -- the measureless spirit of life. That original spiritual fiery water comes through Edem ("vapor" in Hebrew) and pours itself into the four main rivers of the four Elements. This comprises the River of Living Water—the Azoth—or fiery mercurial essence, that flows out from the throne of God and Lamb. In this Edem (vaporous essence or mist) is the first or spiritual Earth, the incomprehensible and intangible dust out of which God formed Adam Kadmon, the spiritual body of man, which must become fully revealed through time." Did Johannes lead the Alchemists to create Gebel and Miriam in their new "cursed" bodies? Johannes must be the one who is Gebel's Origin!
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Post by Cale on Jul 7, 2018 20:01:38 GMT -6
I would like to see broken items that are only acquired through inversely proportional means.
"Wow! That item attacks all enemies on screen at once? How get, bro!?"
"Ah, it was nothing, just had to beat the game at level 1 without being hit or saving the game."
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Post by Cale on Jun 21, 2018 17:34:51 GMT -6
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Post by Cale on Jun 17, 2018 9:48:12 GMT -6
If you were to change the forum font, I would suggest Augusta. Slightly classic and gothic, but easy to read.
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Post by Cale on Jun 17, 2018 4:22:41 GMT -6
Dang, missed the race, I wonder what their times were. Edit: Seeing the results and checking Speedrun.com I am not surprised by the results, I bet it was a fun tournament.
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Post by Cale on Jun 16, 2018 11:08:05 GMT -6
I see one of two things happening. If there is ANY input from the Beta, there will be a delay. It is a perfect reason to delay a game. "It's not up to standards." If there is NO feedback, the game should be released before 2019, seeing as there is nothing that people disagree with.
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Post by Cale on Jun 14, 2018 15:23:10 GMT -6
For me it is about openness. I never believed that it was going to be released 2017. Then I was told that the target release date was 2018. If it is delayed to 2019 I will be a little upset. Not hugely, but I appreciate sticking to a schedule. If it is really that unforeseeable I would have preferred "Release date: TBD" instead of 2018 target. I know it's not intentional, but it feels like my emotions are being toyed with. Notice me, senpai! B-baka!
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Post by Cale on Jun 12, 2018 15:10:12 GMT -6
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Post by Cale on Jun 11, 2018 15:38:59 GMT -6
To be fair, I never give a perfect score. So 4 has got to be my answer ^_^
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Post by Cale on Jun 11, 2018 15:24:13 GMT -6
Galamoth Happy Birthday! Good luck with the Netherworld Throne thing!
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Post by Cale on Jun 10, 2018 12:23:18 GMT -6
Have some and . The pairing may be a bit blasé, but it is hearty and does the job. To Steve!
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Post by Cale on Jun 8, 2018 22:27:15 GMT -6
1. Will there be a Werewolf involved? 2. Will Miriam have a werewolf costume or ability? 3. On a scale of 1-10, why is H.P. Lovecraft the best gothic horror tale writer? 4. How's Brown Jenkins? 5. Cthulhu, yes or really yes?
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Post by Cale on Jun 7, 2018 16:48:15 GMT -6
Not good at long speeches. Iga, THANK YOU! Your games made my childhood fun and memorable. I hope one day to share these games with my children. I wish you the best, and will always trust in your choices.
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Post by Cale on Jun 4, 2018 12:45:34 GMT -6
To me Story DLC is the new Expansion. If they had expansion as an option I would have picked that instead. Diablo II: LoD = AMAZING! New act, new enemies and bosses, new classes, new items, new mechanics. All the Dark Souls games expansions expanded the lore, gave new items/spells, areas, monsters.
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Post by Cale on Jun 3, 2018 16:16:07 GMT -6
Maybe another doughnut donation to Iga and his team is in order?
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