so i've been giving thought to the other schools of thought of philosophy. the ones that i find most straight forward to conceptualize are the white tower and the tower that thinks. the white tower's easy because they have an obvious, pretty universal vector around which their thinking solidifies, that being light. everything that makes light carries fate, everything that affects light affects fate. pretty straight forward, and that can be played around with very easily.
the tower that thinks works through motion, for them everything moves through the paths of stories, stories capture the universe's tendency. everything is woven into a grand tapestry, and even if grand that tapestry can only move in certain ways without manipulation, and can be trained to move in less common or unexpected ways through the the unconscious weaving of a society's anima. they look at systems with moving parts and change how those parts move, which is why they're the ones who make the most use of mundane society, it has very many moving parts.
the sundial tower was tricky for me to figure out, given their thoughts on the source of all. i think, given the 'prime seed' they believe that the universe is a tree which is made of energy, space the roots, time the trunk and branches, and matter the leaves. space is the foundation for it all, everything is fed and secured through it, it permeates everything. when some one is in a space countless roots spread out around them and hold them together with their surroundings. when they manipulate space they're contracting those roots, allowing you to step between them. meanwhile time is constantly growing, using space to grow and spread its leaves. for the sundial philosophers time only affects matter, it is there to support it, to move as it does, to secure matter to space and allow it to sway with the universe. matter, at least the stuff that planets are made of, are the dead leaves fallen off the tree, its path uncertain and flighty in the wind of the cosmos, requiring precision and exactitude to truly predict the motions of. in this analogy stars are the leaves still connected to the tree of time, the sources of energy gathered by space.
finally the living tower believes in the promethean caro. they believe that the universe is a combination of three parts, matter, spirit, and intellect. contrary to what it might seem, they do not believe that matter is the foundation of the universe, but instead the spirit is. everything in the universe is colored by what it is supposed to be, the purpose served, echoes of what they were when they served as the organs of the promethean caro, before it died and split apart.
everything is a synthesis of the three parts that the promethean caro split in to, minute differences in combination leading to different outcomes. there isn't really anything that exists in nature that is a true exemplar of any of the three foundations, but examples of nearly pure matter are things like rock, the air, lava. things of nearly pure spirit are ghosts, and fire. pure intellect is something that they have not found an example of, but the closest would be something like the gods we've crafted. however, it is possible that intellect can only arise as a combination of matter and spirit, a fundamental synthesis that gives all other their abilities. before the recent innovations in thought of the living tower i believe they thought that matter had a finite amount of spirit attached to it, however now they believe that spirit can be grown in a person, allowing them to change their matter and intellect.
this is a bit of spitballing, and needs some work, but i thought i'd share so that other people could start shewing on it and share their own thoughts
