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Agenda

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Agendas

 

 

“As I’ve stated before, the Agenda is the representation of a concept. An Agenda indicates what a particular Divinity or Aeternal represents and has power over. Agendas do not have a conceivable form, they’re simply ‘something’ a supernal entity possesses; the specification of the entity’s power.”

 

“Anything that has a concept can be an Agenda, within the limits of the reasonable. ‘Medicine’ is an Agenda, and so might be ‘Anesthetics’, but the Agenda of ‘Morphine’ would be plainly ridiculous. Of course, nothing stops an entity from claiming the Agenda of ‘Morphine’, but it would probably be worthless and, before you ask, a billion worthless Agendas won’t make an entity powerful.”

 

- Takako, "True Stories 09: Of Takako's Pupil, Minami Kotoko"

 

 

Agendas are formless; they lack any shape or form. Describing what an Agenda is to a mortal is like describing the rainbow to a blind man. There are no words in no spoken language that can properly describe what an Agenda looks like. That's why, no matter how many pages are written on the topic, the definition always feels lacking.

 

We can give two definitions, both just as meaningless and tasteless:

 

  • Agenda is a metaphysical manifestation of a concept.
  • Agenda is what gives power to a Supernal Entity.

 

 

Power of Agendas

 

 

“What makes an Agenda strong or weak?”

 

“Its level of generalization. In other words, how all-encompassing it is. The effect that concept has on the world."

 

- Minami Kotoko & Takako, "True Stories 09: Of Takako's Pupil, Minami Kotoko"

 

 

Almost any sustantive can be an Agenda. The only exceptions are probably proper names like John or Peter (can you imagine the Agenda of Peter?). The power of an Agenda resides in how important its representing concept is to the workings of Reality. That's why Agendas like Time, Space and Energy are powerful, and Agendas like Pottery, Tea and Keys aren't nearly as such.

 

 

Acquiring Agendas

 

So, how does a Supernal Entity get an Agenda it wants? Our lovely Takako-chan has explained this plenty enough already in True Stories 09, and it is reproduced here with her permission.

 

 

“The most common way to get an Agenda is obvious: taking it from whoever owns it. Needless to say, this isn’t an easy feat. It’s virtually impossible to do this in the supernal realms, where Aeternals are at their full power, and no entity will give up its Agenda without putting up one hell of a fight. And probably other entities will stop the fight. Since Aeternals in their true form are almost undefeatable unless there is a blatantly obvious power difference between the opponents, it’s rare for Aeternals to challenge each other in the supernal realms. Rare, as in once or twice every century. Considering that most Aeternals have been alive for millennia, you’ll understand that ‘rare’ might be a fairly vague and relative concept.”

 

“Needless to say, it’s much easier to take Agendas from others when they’re incarnated. That is the main risk behind taking a material form: the risk of being killed by other Aeternals who are after one of your Agendas.”

 

“That also explains why so many Aeternals joined the Holy War on both sides: the War was basically Agenda-hunting for most Aeternals involved. After all, more Agendas generally mean more power.”

 

“When an Aeternal kills another Aeternal, he has the chance to seize one of the fallen Aeternal’s Agendas. One and only one: to take all of them at the same time (if the fallen Aeternal has more than one) it is necessary to completely annihilate the existence of the defeated entity, and this is particularly difficult, as it involves destroying the supernal essence of the Aeternal before it returns to the supernal realms.”

 

“As I said before, this is most common way for Aeternals to obtain Agendas. The Holy War was an excellent example of this. Before I proceed any further, let me clarify that, despite using only the term ‘Aeternal’, the same applies to Divinities.”

 

“There’s also the odd case when an entity willingly concedes its Agenda. This is usually transference from a powerful entity to a weaker entity in exchange for obedience, a favor or whatever. It’s extremely rare, but it’s possible.”

 

“The third way is claiming an available Agenda. If a particular Agenda isn’t taken by another entity, then anyone can claim as its own. Of course, this is much more difficult than it sounds.”

 

“Killing the owner of an Agenda or claiming possession of an available Agenda is the easy part. Agendas, despite nobody knowing precisely what they are, seem to have a level of sentience. In the end, it’s the Agenda who chooses its owner, not the other way around.”

 

“Agendas, too, have types of entities they have better affinity with. An entity can only possess Agendas that are related in some way. An entity cannot possess the War Agenda and then claim the Agenda of Flower Arranging, for example. Of course, few entities are as stupid as to try something like that.”

 

“It’s generally easy in the case when an incarnated Aeternal kills another incarnation to claim one of its Agendas. After all, it’s to be expected than the killer Aeternal was after that particular Agenda because he or she believes the Agenda is within his or her scope. Also, the Agenda will probably recognize the killer’s superior power and allow itself to be claimed.”

 

“When it comes to unclaimed Agendas, it gets a little trickier. After all, at this point in history, an Agenda is unclaimed for one of three reasons: either it’s too weak, or too obscure (which is generally synonymous with weak), or it’s just too ‘picky’.”

 

“A free Agenda will only accept an owner with whom it has a good affinity, as well as an owner who will put it ‘to good use’. That’s why the Agenda of Warfare would never accept a pacifist, for example.”

 

“An example of this would be onii-chan and the Agenda of Boundaries. Nobody ever imagined Boundaries would be such an insanely powerful Agenda (or I would have claimed it ages ago). We could say, in human terms, that the Agenda grew ‘bitter’ at being rejected in such way. However, onii-chan saw potential in the Agenda of Boundaries and claimed it as his own. The Agenda also saw immense potential in belonging to onii-chan of all people, and accepted him.”

 

“The details on winning or losing Agendas are pretty obscure. It’s basically a matter of ‘beat the owner and hope it accepts you’ or ‘claim it and hope it accepts you’.”

 

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