Based on Achim S.
Based on Achim S. idea about shadows of archetypes combined with the idea that each archetype can contain a Tarot-like inverse, I have created a speculative list of the roles of each Magnus member.
There is a nature to each Magnus role that can be expressed either in helping or hindering the goal of the Magnus, but I believe that at all times the member is doing their "job" in the group. But as Francis Bacon believed, genius is like speed- if going the wrong way, it simply means you are doing it faster.
I believe I have seen examples of both types of behavior from all Magnus members. I will have to look up specific examples, but I'm sure as you read you will think of some too. I think the element that "reverses" a Magnus member's role is a belief that they direct the Magnus rather than its direction being something that affects all members. The difference between a karass and a granfaloon. A disharmonious Magnus tends toward reversal of its members' traits.
Alchemist :
Transforms things, synthesizes events, and causes people to evolve.
Reversed :
Destroys things, confuses situations, and twists people out of recognition.
Catalyst :
Motivates people to change reality and self.
Reversed :
Dominates people to follow the path set for them.
Dreamer :
Imagines possibilities that seemed impossible so that they can be realized.
Reversed :
Is lost in what could and might be, and draws others into the fog.
Explorer :
The traveler that returns to us and brings us new realities of other times and places.
Reversed :
A footloose con man who tells us the stories he wants us to hear so we believe what he wants.
Humanist :
The great analyst of the rhizome of human society and individual being.
Reversed :
Explains the unknown with the unknown, makes the complex more so.
Interpreter :
Causes alien perspectives to align into the comprehensible.
Reversed :
Uses language to make a Procrustean bed, as an excuse to say what they want to say.
Listener :
Allows others to express themselves and aids them in painting the picture they mean to.
Reversed :
Listens to what you say, and tells you what you have to mean by it.
Omniscient :
The cartographer and reader of signs that steers the Magnus toward its destiny.
Reversed :
The spymaster that uses hoarded information as a weapon against the other archetypes.
Patron :
The great planner who builds the house in which the Magnus lives. The producer to the Omniscient director.
Reversed :
Tyrant who demands the Magnus serve his will due to the privilege of having created it.
Skeptic :
The natural error checker of the Magnus’ mind. Tests the goals and acts of the Magnus by fire.
Reversed :
The naysayer. The mocker. Closer of doors.
Spiritualist :
Bridge between the conscious mind and the immanent soul.
Reversed :
Demands that the physical be immaterial and the immaterial be physical.
Trickster :
The seeker of alternate forks in the path. The Skeptic of the soul.
Reversed :
Always trying to get the Magnus to go in different directions for amusement’s sake. Doesn’t care about the very meaning of the group.
Visionary :
The helmsman of the Magnus who keeps both the ultimate goal and the next move toward that goal equally in view.
Reversed :
The unsatisfied taskmaster who always finds a reason that the visible path is wrong.
There is a nature to each Magnus role that can be expressed either in helping or hindering the goal of the Magnus, but I believe that at all times the member is doing their "job" in the group. But as Francis Bacon believed, genius is like speed- if going the wrong way, it simply means you are doing it faster.
I believe I have seen examples of both types of behavior from all Magnus members. I will have to look up specific examples, but I'm sure as you read you will think of some too. I think the element that "reverses" a Magnus member's role is a belief that they direct the Magnus rather than its direction being something that affects all members. The difference between a karass and a granfaloon. A disharmonious Magnus tends toward reversal of its members' traits.
Alchemist :
Transforms things, synthesizes events, and causes people to evolve.
Reversed :
Destroys things, confuses situations, and twists people out of recognition.
Catalyst :
Motivates people to change reality and self.
Reversed :
Dominates people to follow the path set for them.
Dreamer :
Imagines possibilities that seemed impossible so that they can be realized.
Reversed :
Is lost in what could and might be, and draws others into the fog.
Explorer :
The traveler that returns to us and brings us new realities of other times and places.
Reversed :
A footloose con man who tells us the stories he wants us to hear so we believe what he wants.
Humanist :
The great analyst of the rhizome of human society and individual being.
Reversed :
Explains the unknown with the unknown, makes the complex more so.
Interpreter :
Causes alien perspectives to align into the comprehensible.
Reversed :
Uses language to make a Procrustean bed, as an excuse to say what they want to say.
Listener :
Allows others to express themselves and aids them in painting the picture they mean to.
Reversed :
Listens to what you say, and tells you what you have to mean by it.
Omniscient :
The cartographer and reader of signs that steers the Magnus toward its destiny.
Reversed :
The spymaster that uses hoarded information as a weapon against the other archetypes.
Patron :
The great planner who builds the house in which the Magnus lives. The producer to the Omniscient director.
Reversed :
Tyrant who demands the Magnus serve his will due to the privilege of having created it.
Skeptic :
The natural error checker of the Magnus’ mind. Tests the goals and acts of the Magnus by fire.
Reversed :
The naysayer. The mocker. Closer of doors.
Spiritualist :
Bridge between the conscious mind and the immanent soul.
Reversed :
Demands that the physical be immaterial and the immaterial be physical.
Trickster :
The seeker of alternate forks in the path. The Skeptic of the soul.
Reversed :
Always trying to get the Magnus to go in different directions for amusement’s sake. Doesn’t care about the very meaning of the group.
Visionary :
The helmsman of the Magnus who keeps both the ultimate goal and the next move toward that goal equally in view.
Reversed :
The unsatisfied taskmaster who always finds a reason that the visible path is wrong.
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