From:	"Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject:	Re: Zeitgeists (Ghosts in Time?)
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 16:32:25 -0300

Jeremy "Bolthy" Zimmerman escreveu:
>


> on one of my major influences. Ubiritan's idea of Lumini was what gave me
^^^^^^^^

UbirAtan, please.

> The idea I hashed out last night is that my so called "Zeitgeists" are
> spirits tied to an object or place that symbolizes an era, time period,
> event, whatever. They are very definitely a type of "Spirit of Man".
> However, they are more in tune with social trends, and the emotions tied to
> an event than they are to physical locations. So, you may not be able to
> use them to search for a person in a city, but they may be able to give you
> perspective on any influence a person had in their native time period.
> These spirits would fit more with the scholars, and maybe the information
> brokers, of the SR universe than the runners. Some of the potential ways
> that I envisioned it using spirit powers may have some uses, but nuyen for
> soy-donuts, I'd put my money on a hearth spirit, city spirit, whatever if I
> needed help in a scrap.
>
> I can do a full write up if anyone is curious. I even came up with a sort
> of scholarly totem that could summon up these spirits.


I have the whole Lumini thing in my mind, and partially written in a
textfile.
They're more like spirits of emotions, indenpendent of time periods,
altough some
of them were created by the strong impressions left by some periods.

Ubiratan