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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skade" data-source="post: 485239" data-attributes="member: 3320">First off, it would be a mistake to consider werewolves, vampires, et al, to be classes.  Werewolves are an entirely different species.  Vampires drastically altered humans.  Changelings creatures beyond mortal ken forced into little balls of flesh.  Wariths and Mages are still human at the core, at least at first, but are hardly mere classes.  Even from a mechanics point of view they are more complex than that.    Secondly, it is not a deterministic universe.  Imagine that something like the Umbra, a shadowly spirit realm that mirrors our own, is not one Umbra- but is instead a reflection of what we belive it to be.  That is even untrue.  It appears as we can accept it to appear, our mind creating for us the imagery we can accept.Real world cosmologies are quite relevent, since the World of Darkness is a fictional version of our world.  It is over the top Resident-Evil-Meets freddy Krueger horror sometimes with more movie cliches than anyone can keep up with, but it is our world.  There are buddhists, and catholics, and agnostics all over the world of darkness and those real cosmologies affect the World of Darkness in very real ways.  A whole Tradition of Mages, the Celestial Chorus, brings together these disparate religious beliefs and works them into a whole.</blockquote>