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It is a collection of questions posed by the Kult community as well as by Neko of le 7éme Cercle, who is also the one to thank for this release. It is in a very raw and uneditedformat to avoid losing context.  \nNOTE: It is not recommended that players of Kult read this text. It is intended for Game Masters only. It also does contain certain elements which might ‘spoil’your game even ifyou are a Game Master! You have been warned   \n-Torben Rygg, [www.kult-rpg.com](www.kult-rpg.com)  \n1.Who was the Demiurge?  \nWhether the Demiurge was ever a ’mere’ human or not seem to us like a plot concern. If it suits the campaign of the gamemaster, then be it so. Personally, we like to set him apart from other creatures. After all, in a mythological context he is God and to uphold that status he needs to be unique. For the gnostic background to workout well, we also feel that the Demiurge must take the position of absent God. The idea of a protestant (stern and very patriarchal) God in a gnostic context is much influenced by the Swedish early 19th Century poet Stagnelius. We don’t know if his work has been translated into French, but he could maybe be described as a Swedish Rimbaud of the 1820’s.  \n2.Why did humanityfall?  \nThe Demiurge probably told himself that imprisoning humanity it was the right thing to do. Maybe because of humans becoming too dangerous. In reality the Demiurge wanted power over humans and creation, and thus created the prison. What ‘really’ happened (did the Demiurge exist before humanity? was he human? was there a conflict before imprisonment?) we choose to leave out. We feel that for the religious context of the game to work these ‘pre-historical’ happenings need be mythological, not factual.  \n3. Who is Astaroth now? Did he meet the Demiurge?  \nAstaroth ruled the Infernos where humans who felt they deserved to be punished travelled. In that sense, he was like a lictor and other guardians of humanity’s prison. But we never envisioned him as created consciously by the Demiurge. Rather, he is the Shadow of the Demiurge. Like a human transcending to the light unconsciously creates a dark ‘twin’, we see Astaroth asthe twin of the Demiurge. He was created at the sametime as the Illusion. Creating the Illusion was a ‘bad’  \nthing, even the Demiurge sensed that, and thus that act caused a split in his being.  \nAstaroth travelled to look for the Demiurge and never told anyone if he found him. As we see it, he didn’t. The Demiurge is gone and Astaroth is at a loss without him. He can’t merge with the Demiurge, since he is gone. What he can do is to become the new Demiurge, if humanity crave a God. Then he must change his ways considerably and in all effects become the new Demiurge and loose himself. Will he do that? Can he even? We don’t know. We feel he works best as irresolute. And after all, he can stay undecided for quite a long time.  \n4.Where is the Demiurge?  \nDead and Gone! That is a basic concept for the game. He won’t be coming back, unless Astaroth takes his place, and he will be quite another Demiurge.  \n5.What is keeping Astaroth awayfrom the Illusion? To take over the Illusion, Astaroth has to adhere to its rules. If he breaks too many of them, the whole prison could fall apart and humanity be freed. He doesn’t want that. He wants control over the Illusion, but is unsure as to how to achieve that. He can’t easily take command over lictors and arconts, who will fight to keep him away from what they now sense is their world. So, he is planning a slow‘infernalization’ of the world while trying to get lictors and other servants to convert to his side.  \n6.What about Malkuth and Tipareth?  \nMalkuth is sponsoring magical and scientific research trying to find ways to a ‘fast awakening’ of humans. She realizes that letting everyone try to awaken by themselves would take forever. She is using Tipareths infl","cbCaimcBor0TUorM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimcBor0TUorM","pdf",1586959,"English","# Interview with the Authors\n## Demiurge origins and humanity’s fall\n## Astaroth, the Illusion, and the Demiurge’s whereabouts\n## Malkuth, Tipareth, and awakening\n## Messiah and Lore of Reality\n## The world before the fall","[{\"question\":\"Who was the Demiurge, and why is his origin treated as myth rather than fact?\",\"answer\":\"The authors emphasize that whether the Demiurge was ever merely human is not a plot concern, and that pre-historical events must remain mythological for the game’s religious context to work.\"},{\"question\":\"How are Astaroth and the Illusion connected?\",\"answer\":\"Astaroth must follow the Illusion’s rules to take over it. 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