Meg the Healer
Sage
So, I've been kicking an idea around for a while in the latest rendition/rewrite of my current novel about what I call "The Un-naming."
To un-name someone (in my world) is to erase their existence and destroy their soul. The past, present, and future are gone but the Nameless one doesn't die - they just have no purpose. They are basically ghosts as their actions have no effect on anyone or anything as their "fate" has been erased and they will never be reborn.
I'm wondering if this is even a good idea or even plausible because it raises so many questions - like if their past is erased and they are the direct reason why such and such event occured will you create a paradox and so on and so forth. Or would it be that the events occured, but no one could remember how they got to the state they're in because the memory of the Nameless one is no more and they will have no further role to play in the future?
Is this a good idea? In need of a more fleshed-out approached? Or is it a thought that can be added but in the "great debate" of this fantasical world where people threaten to have someone un-named, yet no one knows how to go about doing it or if it has ever been done (for who could remember?)?
Thoughts? Comments? Questions? Concerns?
I'm hungry.:smoke:
To un-name someone (in my world) is to erase their existence and destroy their soul. The past, present, and future are gone but the Nameless one doesn't die - they just have no purpose. They are basically ghosts as their actions have no effect on anyone or anything as their "fate" has been erased and they will never be reborn.
I'm wondering if this is even a good idea or even plausible because it raises so many questions - like if their past is erased and they are the direct reason why such and such event occured will you create a paradox and so on and so forth. Or would it be that the events occured, but no one could remember how they got to the state they're in because the memory of the Nameless one is no more and they will have no further role to play in the future?
Is this a good idea? In need of a more fleshed-out approached? Or is it a thought that can be added but in the "great debate" of this fantasical world where people threaten to have someone un-named, yet no one knows how to go about doing it or if it has ever been done (for who could remember?)?
Thoughts? Comments? Questions? Concerns?
I'm hungry.:smoke:
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