BREAKER OF INFINITIES 4-146
Chapter: 4
Prim strode on, weary for a resting place. Surely the road had to go somewhere, she thought, otherwise there was no point to the road at all. Yet for every step she took, the ground beneath her feet seemed to stretch out three.
– Prim Masters the Road
She honestly, truly wanted Alison to pick breakfast. To sever the thread of absolute certainty she beholds.
What a tragedy
Now that- is an excellent comment and theory!
Pretty much my early morning experience. Being hardly awake while not feeling hungry and wondering if just laying down is a valid option.
Interesting how Jadis and Jagganoth are basically saying the same thing. That what you believe in, exists.
Jadis believes she’s seen all, and because she’s seen all, she has no free will and can do nothing, and this traps her. (Her vice is laziness.) But because believing something manifests it (in her case, that she’s seen all and there’s nothing new to manifest with new beliefs), this IS true for HER. Her mind traps her.
Likewise, Jagganoth realizes that his mind is marked by his experience, thus why he says he’ll delete himself once he’s won. Because otherwise what his mind has experienced will influence the world and it won’t be free. So he at least understands he’s trapped by his own mind.
Everyone, over and over, demonstrates to Allison how what one believes influences the world, and if you want to change the world, you need to believe something new and act on it.
I think the story is shepherding her to master (or manifest, at least one time) the black art? To create something from nothing, rather than to shape the self or to shape something that exists?
Aha. Notice how choice and causality are presented as going hand in hand, instead of that incompatibilist contracausal nonsense.
What a pitiful fool, Allison has not chosen futility, she has chosen hope, something Jadis has seemed to lack. Despite her omniscience, destiny is made by what we choose. Allison is going to break the cycle I am sure of it. Still, a pity that Jadis has given up so easily.
Nay, not a fool, just a tragic figure that has lost all hope from her experience. Alas, I still pity her greatly
I’m liking Jadis so far. Very nice for an all knowing nihilist.
I do have to wonder … everything else we have seen suggests that this bit of present has never occurred before in all the previous cycles. Maybe if the master key wielder changes something then Jadis cannot remember that it was ever different. She can map the current timeline with absolute accuracy but has lost sight of the possibility of other timelines. That would be very Heisenberg.
“local prophet destroyed by facts and logic”
well, no matter what you say about the current arc, abbadon sure didnt lose his sense of humor.
It seems too much like the witch wants her to change her ways. How can someone, knowing the future, be unaffected by it? Who could predict that they themselves will move their left hand in 10 minutes, and not at least try to move their right instead? What would prevent them?
Question: I would love to buy the high resolution PDF of KillSixBillionsDemons. There is a way to get it? It is available on Patreon?
“Surely the road had to go somewhere, she thought, otherwise there was no point to the road at all.” How did it take me a second read to realize that Prim’s story is in the same place as Allison’s?
Damn definitely “Nihilism Mommy” all right with how much she’s trying to get Alison to eat breakfast *chuckles* Can I sit in her lap and eat pancakes while waiting for the inevitable heat death of the universe? *finger taps*