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Concept Art 75: Cameron Moira
🕑 Added 2024-03-14 18:57:14 +0000 UTCCamarona is back! Now as an intrepid historian and archeologist obsessed with uncovering the hidden history of Arcadia, which might get her into trouble since the believers of the ekpyrosis do not take any attempt to expose forbidden knowledge lightly.
Cameron might respect the religious customs of Arcadia but, she doesn't let those beliefs stop her from questioning things, which very few Arcadians dare to do, fearing the wrath of a vengeful god.
Now let's talk about how Cameron and Tony came back. You all might know by now that the new humanity that lives in Arcadia, called Ixim, is the creation of Adam and Adonai, who used the Ark of Soma to achieve it, The Ark of Soma is a data bank created during "The Awakening" Era to serve as a back up for the genetic code of humanity, in which individuals like Cameron and Tony are included. In principle, this system was made to recreate bodies for individuals who never had one or lost theirs, unable to wake up from "Hypnos" (pocket dream universe) because of it.
I have 2 options(although after talking with Madprism in the server, one might be more interesting to explore.
Option 1:
inspired by Causality from Berserk, history does not exactly repeat itself, but it rhymes, so by principles of causality and Probability, any system that persists long enough is destined to produce similar results from time to time. Applying those principles to the recreation of humanity, this law suggests that with enough time, a person similar enough to one from the past might reappear when many combinations through generations end up recreating an almost identical code. So patterns of genes repeat themselves with long enough time.
Of course, this is an ambiguous way to explain things but it just leaves a lot of space for me to do whatever I want hahaha.
Option 2:
This option has the premise that while the Ixim are constantly reproducing themselves, the level of violence present in Arcadia instigated by the ekpyrosis is so high, that to keep a constant quantity of ixim for Adam to replenish his energy, the Ekpyrosis creates new clones and throws them into the world from time to time to inflate the population numbers. That would easily explain why Tony and Cameron are back exactly as we know them and also give more depth into why orphanages like the one from Omelas, where Basil lives, are always full of kids. Thinking about it, Malik, the Midnight blade behind Vidia's atrocious actions, might be aware of this fact and see these new waves of orphan kids as a way to make a profit, they are created to die anyway.
This one is the simplest route, which might be for the best but for some time I was a bit worried about this topic while I explored the Zoe fields idea. These fields are maize fields in the depths of Necropolis, but instead of maize, we are talking of Ixim pods. Initially, we would have the party reach the Necropolis and react to the pods with babies in them by having a mini existential crisis, but then I thought, why would the pods be active anyway? these already served their function, the pods would be empty and turned off, making the scene I had in mind lack impact. But thanks to my conversation with Prism, I think this option might work, while the Zoe fields might be mostly unfunctional, some sectors might still be creating new humans and thus I can have the moment I planned with the party reacting to this.
Anyway, none of these options are set in stone but option 2 might be giving me more to play with lore-wise. What do you think?
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