Alice and the Natural Order
The Witch of Beginnings, Start and Origin
Aim:
Domains: Magic and Life Alice is a concept.
For the purpose of the lore, Alice is believed to be the world itself. Her will is the will of the world, her future is the future of the world. She is the beginning of everything. But many believe that she is an evil witch known as the “Witch of Beginnings/Start/Origin” who involuntarily gave the world “Future” through “Imagination” born from “Free Will”, “Potential”, “Change” but, who also allowed “THE END”.
Index
Sub-factions
- Orthodoxy of Alice
- Reach of Alice
- Fingers of Alice
Writing Notes:
Ensure that Alice is a floating, nebulous concept that has no definitive answers and is open for interpretation from every element of your world.
Nomenclature
- Alice, Mother (Devotees)
- Witch (C Church)
The Faces of Alice
Now then, where did those three other bitches come from?
- Free will (child) was the youngest and gave humanity agency.
- Change (seductress) tempted humanity to harness that power.
- Potential (wife) gently awakened humanity to power.
Alice is depicted as a crone outside of the Witch’s Cult (Alice Knights). Though she is indeed the oldest of the Goddesses of Alice, her existence is ostracised by The C Church.
Digression: Alice, the child
Alice is a child. She loved books. She loves fantasy books. She loves the fictional worlds in those books. She loved knowing about the stories of adventures the characters lead in those books. Alice would draw out the fantasy she imagined with highlighters meant for school. She’d always have muses of inspiration about her world. She loved dragons, she believed they were terrifying creatures of calamity, but that is exactly why they are romantic to her. She loves the protagonists who overcome their perils, but she adores those who find understanding with the Dragons. She loves goblins, she thinks they’re cute. She thinks goblins could be anything imaginable. And all she loved, she dreamt and drew.
Humans resemble heroes in books. Dragons of prismatic, unnatural colours. Why aim for realism when you can reach beyond realism? Little green blobs and globs she calls goblins. There’s no consistency at all, but in Alice’s imagination, her world is holistic.
Alice’s arm was shattered in an accident. All she remembered was lights piercing the walls like poles and spears. She truly believed that her arm was taken by a “spear of light”. She waited in the hospital, replaying scenes of her world in her head. Residents in her world animate, life go on and stories unravel.
The hospital Alice stayed in crumbled to the earth. Alice curled up, wrapping her remaining arm around her knees and waited1). She was not afraid. She was not alone. Her children kept her company. Alice had a vivid image of her world, so clearly it reflected in her eyes like continents drifting on the globe. She waited patiently, deep down in the pocket raised up like a mouth around her. Her body clasped between the molars of mortar that fell from the sky. Like a princess, she was held by the maws of creatures of calamity, in the abyss of a dungeon.
Alice was never rescued from the dungeon.
Digression: Alice, the wife
Another Alice in the distant future had her arm torn away by ALICE. In her last breath, as she bled out, she initiated The Experiment.
Digression: Alice, the crone
Another Alice in the distant past had her nails torn and fingers crushed by The C Church. Before she was executed, she silently, willed a curse.
