Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-35782287-20190215044833/@comment-1255618-20190515200859

@CatholicPrincess15

To clarify Purrington's point, Buddhism (and Hinduism) have this idea that everything is part of the same dream, including the gods (or at least some of them in the case of Hinduism), and to achieve Nirvana or freedom from existence/suffering one has to realise this fact and "wake up" from the dream by resolving karma, which ends the cycle of death and rebirth of the soul. Of course, Vivec's twist on this concept is that the enlightenment one should seek is not waking up and dissolving the self (achieving "zero-sum") but to persist in the dream by reconciling the individual self with the collective self (i.e. CHIM) and making of the dream what one wills, perhaps going on to achieve Amaranth through loving others and sacrificing oneself to create a new dream. The idea of Amaranth does sound somewhat Christian, though.