Forums chattered about the meanings this could have. In a time when facial recognition in the real world became a hot topic, with cameras everywhere - even in supermarkets - facial markers succeeded all other forms of identification; and people detested being filmed. Citizens were encased in security measures that felt stifling. Virtual society offered a rare kind of freedom through its oblique anonymity.
WAR was similar to other fantasy games, yet its platform was occult and in many respects, very real. The graphics intoxicating, with subliminal fills; the chat and messaging was so secure, because it lay outside the usual channels that were government filtered, circumventing the common servers, impenetrable to the security agencies.
WAR was sophisticated and worked.
It recruited thousands and drew in persons from politics, commerce and management. Its high level participants were the new Masons - the Illuminati of the internet - who lived and created their personas online, yet carried them unashamedly and theatrically into the real world too.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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