Clearly, the only idea here that could remotely/possibly be true is the last one.

The others are just too far fetched!

But the last one, the pre-concordenax things, that's got a serious ring of plausibility to it.

After all, isn't every SF/Fantasy story better with Time Travel?

I mean think how boring Dr Who would be without time travel? It would just be a nutter living in a police box!

You are mean, think about the poor author! Although I do have very little sympathy for the bozo transcribing my story.

If you don't have time travel to fix all the implausibilities, mistakes and oversights in your work you end up looking like you slapped the book together in a matter of hours just to get a quick buck!

Now, of course, that's probably true if you have such things, but you don't want it to look like it.

So my point is, Time Travel is required to fix sloppy writing. Just like dream sequences (it was all a dream!) are required when authors back themselves into a corner which they're not smart enough to get out of plausibly otherwise (which seems to happen a lot on TV)

Now, this theory is starting to sound like one of the author's D&D campaigns...one that went on for about 6-7 years..

By the end, this sort of stuff was getting rather common. There was one wizard Mooo where the player came late to the campaign so just showed up at level 7 with a very vague back story

Several years later, he was like 23rd level, and had an apprentice, Looo, who coincidentally was 7th level when he failed his saving throws and was sucked down a wormhole.

Oddly enough he emerged from it in the past, and needed to take a ship, and found a (flying) ship with the other campaign members on it back when they were 7th level, so he just called himself "Mooo" and thus looped himself.

Which is why when he became Archimage of the local Guild, he would refer to himself as Mooo the Mobius Magi of Might based on the idea of a Mobius strip.

But that was pretty much par for the course for this wizard, who was at some point turned into an intelligent crown and so had his apprentice wear him and thus "possessed" the apprentice. Which was fine up until a Mind Flayer accidentally teleported inside the central crystal that was Mooo...

So anyway, my point (me, Tizzy) is that you shouldn't give the author guy ideas like this.

He's all too likely to be tempted.

But he's already heard from a lot of readers who've threatened to throw rotten e-apples at him if he tries to do something like that.

Would it be possible for the same person to be summoned from multiple splinter realities or to have a relative from a splinter reality summoned after one of the branch points. While it is true that you could not visit any reality apart from the main stabilized realities, it could still be possible to summon souls from less stable realities before they collapsed due to a small difference as the loss of one soul in most instances wouldn't change the grand scheme of things. This could be used to summon more souls than should exist. It might even allow somebody savvy enough to realize they could possibly some multiple variants of their soul to empower themselves giving them more energy as they collapsed in themselves.

Just a theory mind you as two souls that were identical at their creation should be able to merge without incident and would likely have a positive effect.

No, but splinter realities in some instances have parallel versions of yourself. This changes in some interpretations to include all parallel world, but in this one it seems to be only a major event would change the general course of a world. Tom's death could in theory be a minor event that got swept up by the primary timeline as he only died because he went to the party and he might not have gone in some instance. Stretching things a bit their, but people could die in splinter realities, but due to most iterations of themselves living they might go on, I am not an expert in parallel world so I won't go into more detail.

A major event that causes a schism would result in two near identical worlds, and it would take a generation for the identical beings in both worlds to die off. For all I know due to Earth being a magic wasteland it might be hard to access the astral plane from the primary reality and only a slightly unstable and collapsible side reality might allow it. If Tom wasn't snatched it is highly likely he would have thought himself to have been quite high and that he wasn't smoking Mary Jane, but for all intents and purposes would likely not visit the astral plane again. The summons of the wizards might even have resonated with his reality and called him.

All this could be true, or it could be mad ramblings. My thought was merely that a reality without any significant magic would protect the soul of its inhabitants. Astlanians wouldn't think to try and then use the demon to call out an identical soul. Demons wouldn't have the knowledge or the drive to see if they could summon themselves as people all assume that if they were taken that they will be gone from their old world entirely, and some of them might in fact be the main version and a minority could be from side realities or vice versa.

Well I liked it (but its long, longer than 'Into The Abyss' by far) and the doubling up (multiple times) happens there like you described.
It's not an book, but an Web-Story you could google it, if you are interested.

Hmm, interesting...

So, lets asume an Demon will want to become an God.

He gets to an high tech world where there is
1. cloning technology
2. mind download and/or artificial personalities for the clone bodies
3. steal it

If there is only the possibility of mind downloads from existing minds, then he would need to brainwash someone to be his first disciple and then download his mind into the clones.

He might need to import his clones into an mana rich environment, but looking at the imported building thats seems doable - over time...

Why don't they make a magical device that gathers mana from its surrounding and then send it to its maker? This kind of thing is something Runic magic seems to be capable of doing. A device like that would have been easier and less hassle to use that clones.

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@Maou:

Aren't we talking demons, not humans. Read Korwin's post.

And how do you know those stuff by the way. i always find myself beffudled by your statements and apparent knowledge.