Brainstorm: Akashic Nodes, Memes, and Doppelgangers

“A meme is the manifestation of a specific belief, societal institution, or potent emotion.” Akashic Nodes: The Home of Memory.

Sometimes I just like to read rpg material and see where my imagination takes me, here is where this singular line (written by Michael Trice, I believe, I will have to ask Bill Collins about it.)

Think of an Akashic Node that is created by a group of like-minded people, now go a bit further make them all doppelgangers, they can read each other’s thoughts so they are nearly all the same mind. In the black and white world of D&D they would be a conspiracy plotting to replace all the people of the world with doppelgangers. 

In the gray and grayer world of Arcana Evolved I think of them as a group of spies created by the giants in the same way that they created the sibeccai, but the doppelgangers were created in wartime they were not afforded the status because war demands expediency not morality.  They accept people into their society who have lost their sense of identity, humans often become mojh but the other races don’t have that choice all they have left are the doppelgangers. 

 The node becomes the meme of the forgotten, an institution of acceptance and secrecy, where you often feel a sense of release and new beginnings, here anyone can start over and begin anew.   Yet what terrible secrets lie hidden here cast off like skin shed by a snake.   Could even a dramojh that hated demonic dragon-scions have shed their skins, memories and sins?  The Doppelganger your talking to could have been anyone, anyone at all.

Well it was just a thought.

Steve “Qwilion” Russell

Rite Publishing