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TheAwayWeekend - themes and variations

Originally TheAwayWeekend had a 19C Romantic theory backing it: William Blake for style, Hegel for political theory, Nietzsche for philosophy. It got really heavy. Also, I lost a lot of my notes, and rewriting them might be boring.

Right now I'm busy reading Christina Rossetti's poetry, so the 19C backdrop of ideas hasn't gone away, but the shape of the game might be more Pre-Raphaelite than Wagnerian. Or I can be persuaded to vary between the two extremes. One idea I had was to entitle the game 'Sacred and Profane', which captures elements from both Gotterdammerung Romanticism and Pre-Raphaelite pretensions to chivalric romance, with all the sexual undercurrents fully implied.

Another thing that interests me in the Nobilis setting is the meaning, character and powers of love; there must be something significant about love, otherwise Lord Entropy wouldn't have forbidden it.

Suggested strongly thematic Powers:

Power of Love (alternately Romance or Lust)
Power of Sanctity (alternately Creed or Doctrine, if a cynical view is taken) Power of Profanity (alternately the Secular or Materialism, or maybe Idolatry)
Power of Masculinity (alternately Femininity) Power of Innocence (alternately Experience, vide Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience; or maybe contrasting Naivete and Cynicism, vide Voltaire's Candide)

More to come. Please add suggestions. If anyone expresses an interest, we can elaborate the nature of these powers some more.