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I have a blog where I talk about nerd shit that interests Me. Mostly antirealism and science fiction. My newest article is about a ttRPG system called Draw Steel and its unreal game mechanics. And when I was writing it, I thought about telling a story from the campaign I'm playing in, but decided it would be too indulgent.
SO NOW YOU HAVE TO SUFFER THROUGH IT!
Memory of a Dreamt Revelation is a high elf from the city of Veronis. Yes, their name is Memory of a Dreamt Revelation. All high elf names are like that, because high elves are never pressed for time. You can call them Revelation if you must, but I won't. Memory of a Dreamt Revelation's parents expected them to go into the old family business of archaeo-engineering. See, they're both scholars who study the giant clockwork animals who tend to the landscape and make this artificial world under a mechanical sky habitable.
But Memory of a Dreamt Revelation is a very social sort, and unlike their parents, made friends at university. Human friends, mostly. They began to see life from a more human perspective: fast, confusing, and desperate. Humans are always pressed for time. So Memory of a Dreamt Revelation became interested in politics, and graduated with a degree in social justice instead of mechanical archaeology.
They volunteered with many local anarchist organisations, mostly a group called the Cobblestones. They fed the hungry, squatted with the homeless, threw bricks at cops, taught the peasants to use weapons, and fell in love. With a human who wanted to be a clockwork robot, named Kaya. But Veronis has no words or philosophy to soothe a soul unhappy with the species of its body. Kaya couldn't bear the pain. And eventually, they committed suicide.
Memory of a Dreamt Revelation's heart was broken. Not by Kaya, but by the society that let Kaya die. The cobblestones gave them food, a roof over their head, physical safety. But not the validation of their being they so desperately needed. Realist anarchism couldn't help Kaya. So Memory of a Dreamt Revelation abdicated all responsibility and duty, to invent a new anarchism. An anarcho-antirealism.
Reply if you want to hear the next chapter of the story.
I’m intrigued… both about the story and the concept of antirealism
Memory of a Dreamt Revelation spent the next three years mainly in seclusion, doing as many high elves tend to do for much of their lives: thinking and writing. At the conclusion of the three years, they had two things: [a manifesto] (https://soulism.net/) and a plan. A plan to introduce the radical concepts they had decided upon not through argument, rhetoric, or political action. But through tales of heroism. They would become a famous hero who used antirealism as a weapon to vanquish evil. The stories that would be sung of them for generations would be political propaganda.
But becoming a famous hero is a difficult process. Memory of a Dreamt Revelation had no quests, no party, and little in the way of resources. So they decided to go find a mentor. A very well known beginning to the classic hero's journey. Unfortunately, most of the heroes they remembered from song and story growing up were dead. That's the thing about being a high elf, you stop paying attention to celebrity gossip for a few years and all the celebrities you know dies of old age. Fortunately, there lived in Veronis a high elf hero by the name of Eluran. Eluran was still alive... Probably.
Eluran had been for many years the leader of a heroic organisation called the Brass Hand. The Brass Hand was dedicated solely to doing good works in the world. Unfortunately, its influence had waned in recent years due to a PR disaster. Eluran had foretold the end of the world, and on the appointed date, it did not come. After that, people started leaving. The city didn't trust Eluran anymore. But the old man had still been plenty wealthy, and in his old age he had been investing his money in charitable works. Memory of a Dreamt Revelation had met him on several occasions over the last few decades, picking up donated food for the Cobblestones. So they weren't allowed to let a failed prophecy get in the way of their quest to become a hero.
And as Memory of a Dreamt Revelation stepped into the headquarters of the Brass Hand, they saw Eluran laying down on a bed, surrounded by his few remaining family and friends, dying. His last will: to leave the Brass Hand and all of its resources to the six people with him at the moment of his death. Upon only one condition: that together they go to the domain of the Squirrel Lord to investigate a temporal anomaly.
Reply to hear about that quest
Go ahead, I'm getting invested.
Yes, keep going.