Requiem-Chris: Promised Victory
OOC: The following is what I sent the Carthian List tonight, to illustrate the way Chris views the conflict. It's posted here for OOC entertainment, as well as critiques by players whom I respect. If you think you can see a way to improve my PC's stance - or arguments to shake it up some - feel free to give them to me. The character has a better political mind than the player, so I'm just trying to not sound like a jackass.
I submit the following to my Brothers and Sisters, in the hope of illustrating the differences between the Carthian Movement and the Invictus:
First, please note that this is diatribe comes from a Carthian who believes that the Movement will not reach its full potential until the institution of the First Estate is destroyed. It's important you keep that perspective in mind, as it colors everything I do as a Vampire - and, somewhat more to the point, it gives a base from which everything I'm about to say comes.
The Carthian Movement and the Invictus are fundamentally different as institutions - the philosophies of neo-feudal conservationism and progressive experimentation are equatable to the notions of risk versus certainty. The Invictus - as an institution - have found a stasis which they feel comfortable maintaining. The Carthian Movement has recognized the inherent flaws in this structure, and have decided that the risk of change is underwhelmed by its potential.
Now, those are the institutional theories, mind. In practice, there are very few 'Unconquered' left in the Requiem. Like... maybe ten to fifteen active on the global stage, with three or four times that number in isolated domains. The reason? Pragmatism. Many Invictus have become pragmatists, which is a direct contradiction to the principles on which the First Estate was founded. Tradition Without Question was the clarion call of the First Estate, but these nights the Invictus have begun to recognize their flaws, and adapt to overcome them.
Make no mistake: that makes them Carthians.
There is no sacred and sacrosanct methodology to the Carthian Movement. Our strength is in our willingness to change, to learn and to grow. I have a euphamism which I've found serves me well: the Invictus and the Carthian Movement are guns in a war. The Invictus are a derringer - they're shooting a single direction, and their bullet isn't good enough to get the job done. The Movement is a Kalashnikov - we're firing fifty bullets in fifty directions. Sure, most of our shots are going to miss. Yeah, the recoil is a sonuvabitch. But all we need is one bullet to fly true, and we've done our job.
You Can't Stop A Carthian
- Chris X
I submit the following to my Brothers and Sisters, in the hope of illustrating the differences between the Carthian Movement and the Invictus:
First, please note that this is diatribe comes from a Carthian who believes that the Movement will not reach its full potential until the institution of the First Estate is destroyed. It's important you keep that perspective in mind, as it colors everything I do as a Vampire - and, somewhat more to the point, it gives a base from which everything I'm about to say comes.
The Carthian Movement and the Invictus are fundamentally different as institutions - the philosophies of neo-feudal conservationism and progressive experimentation are equatable to the notions of risk versus certainty. The Invictus - as an institution - have found a stasis which they feel comfortable maintaining. The Carthian Movement has recognized the inherent flaws in this structure, and have decided that the risk of change is underwhelmed by its potential.
Now, those are the institutional theories, mind. In practice, there are very few 'Unconquered' left in the Requiem. Like... maybe ten to fifteen active on the global stage, with three or four times that number in isolated domains. The reason? Pragmatism. Many Invictus have become pragmatists, which is a direct contradiction to the principles on which the First Estate was founded. Tradition Without Question was the clarion call of the First Estate, but these nights the Invictus have begun to recognize their flaws, and adapt to overcome them.
Make no mistake: that makes them Carthians.
There is no sacred and sacrosanct methodology to the Carthian Movement. Our strength is in our willingness to change, to learn and to grow. I have a euphamism which I've found serves me well: the Invictus and the Carthian Movement are guns in a war. The Invictus are a derringer - they're shooting a single direction, and their bullet isn't good enough to get the job done. The Movement is a Kalashnikov - we're firing fifty bullets in fifty directions. Sure, most of our shots are going to miss. Yeah, the recoil is a sonuvabitch. But all we need is one bullet to fly true, and we've done our job.
You Can't Stop A Carthian
- Chris X