IN> In Nomine - Girl Genius

[John Dallman]

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omcast.net>, earlwajenberg at comcast.net () wrote:
> Randolph Finder asked: 
> > "Any suggestions for what the Jagerkin are?" 
> How about: They are Soldiers of the Heterodyne.  Yes, Soldiers of a 
> living mortal.  It's the Power of Science! that can do such a thing.  
> They start as normal humans but become Jagerkin when they drink the 
> jagerdraft, as far as I can tell from the story so far. 

I'm only part-way through the story, but I'll venture to suggest a 
variation; "Soldiers of the word of Hetrodyne". The Hetrodynes seem to 
have substantially re-ordered the world, judging by how much mythology 
is told about them; there aren't really any corresponding figures in 
standard IN, although there are in some other mythologies, such as the 
Lightbringer's Quest in Glorantha. Doing that could plausibly, in IN 
terms, make you into a Word. 

In thinking of the world in terms of the structure of Words, Hetrodyne 
still comes under SCIENCE! but is now a big enough part of it that the 
Hetrodyne approach is influencing almost all other words under SCIENCE! 

This makes the Hetrodynes, including Agatha, mortals holding a Word, 
apparently inheritably. There is a precedent, of course, in Lilith. 
Of course, this may be a disguise for the word being actually held by 
Lucrezia - I'm not far enough through the story to tell as yet. 

There is, of course, a GURPS: GG under development. 

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