[UA] Avatar of the Chronicler?

[graver]

Ya, I'd agree.  If this priest was an avatar, he would more then likely be an accidental Confessor, walking the beginning of the road simply because of his status as a clergymen.  I don't see him being a Chronicler... he just didn't record enough or cultivate the appearance enough to make it anywhere down that road.  UA wise, his just another dumb clueless schmuck skipping along the surface.

On the topic of the Autobiographer, why does that have to be a separate archetype?  It sounds to me like the Autobiographer would just be a radical reinvention of the Chronicler.  It still mostly exists within the realm of what the chronicler is, it just shifts the Chroniclers paradigm a smidgen -from the Chronicler being an objective faceless recorder to being an integral part of the "important event."  Hell, there very well might be a Chronicler out there who has taken a cue from Arcane and is looking to oust the old Chronicler and implant the new individualistic paradigm in the Chroniclers role.

Eslington ~ <eslington at gmail.com> wrote: 

 On 2/13/07, Russell Rayburn <rusrayburn at gmail.com> wrote: On 2/13/07, Ted Prodromou <merovingianheir at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Avatar of the Confessor, I'd say.
> They're supposed to write down what they hear, too.
>

Nice... there a write up of that some place?  
 Yep. Statosphere. Great book, even if a lot of the information is reprinted in UA2 I'd reccomend buying it for insights into the movements of the clergy and the crunchy goodness in the form of new archetypes and rooms of renunciation. 
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 Now as to the meat of this topic, I don't think our visible clergyman is an avatar of the Chronicler or Confessor or anything. Odds are is that he's just a crooked priest.
  
 If we're talking about Archetypes though, you can see an interesting phenomenon at work.
 In recent years, the rise of blogs (and to a lesser extent, personal websites) have become challenges to the Chronicler archetype.
 After all, if the person who lived a story is the one who tells it, then what need is there for an external recorder?
  
 The Autobiographer archetype is rising in public conciousness, all across the internet.
  
 Fortunately for the status quo, most bloggers are still busy talking about things outside themselves like what's on TV or which Naruto Character some guy's quiz says they are, and those talking about themselves are tarred with the same brush as masturbatory teenage whinejournals. 
  
 But everyone who has something interesting to say about their own life is a chip against the foundation of the Chronicler Archetype.
  
  "The Guardian" is a very deliberate choice of name.
 (At least, that's what a Manchester cobweb farmer once told me.)


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