by Geckat » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:58 am
I was thinking along the lines of Trylon. Perhaps a DRC member (they had some very enthusiastic linguists) Wrote Ages as an experiment (possibly more, eventually...the Art is like a drug, as we all know), but left. He had his office hidden well enough to keep people from sabotaging, destroying, altering, etc. his current projects, both in translations and in Writing. Now he's left along with the rest of the DRC. This way, we don't have to know necessarily who he is (the DRC have a lot more members than they've mentioned...all we've seen are the high-standing ones), a concrete reason for his disappearance (if he was stuck or killed in one of his own Ages, he'd need to be programmed in there), and still a lot of open-endedness.
Heck, an office could even be programmed at some point. Then we would have a great setup for a Kadish-like Age, using information and codes only supposed to be known to the Writer. I don't know what kind of Ages you all have planned, so I'm trying to be as vague as possible.