Log 4: The Id[n 1] is one of the Collectibles in The Foundation. It is the fourth of eight so-called Ash Tapes, recordings made by Dr. Theodore Ash, Jr. during his time in the Foundation of the Oldest House.
Transcript
Forty-one days since Entry Day, the name of our "historic arrival" to the Oldest House. Morale is long dead and its corpse is starting to smell. My research staff complain of a presence watching them. Many have suffered nervous fits. Some were evacuated. In cheerier news, I've made some new friends. I met them while exploring the deeper caves. They're hard to describe, but imagine avant-garde sculptures of humans. I call them the Id. They aren't hostile. In fact, they're polite and quiet, which is more than I can say for my colleagues. Most Id are shy, but a few are quite curious. While I sat taking notes, one came to look at my sketches. I offered it my pencil, but that spooked it. What are the Id? Residents? Prisoners? They remind me of the golems from Kabbalistic texts, or a type of homunculi. I know I shouldn't, but I gave them names. There's Hercules, Adam, Lillith, Copernicus. Mabel is the bravest. They're a funny bunch.
Location
The Collectible can be found in the Foundation. From the Control Point at the Cave System, turn right to enter the path that leads towards the Deep Cavern. At the first large room after entering this tunnel, the recording can be found on the rock ridge near the three black boxes.
Trivia
- Dr. Ash's attempts to give an imagination of the Id include comparing them to golems as they are mentioned in Kabbalistic texts – meaning "animated anthropomorphic being[s …] entirely created from inanimate matter (usually clay or mud)",[1] and homunculi, the plural form of homunculus – meaning "little person",[2] "a representation of a small human being, originally depicted as small statues made out of clay."[2] In addition, he describes them as avant-garde-style sculptures, throwing another bridge between them and the Oldest House, the building style of wich is the Brutalist architecture and considered to be "greatly influenced by post-war avant-garde art."[3]
- Most of the names Dr. Ash has given the Id are inspired by mythological or historical characters: Hercules – a Roman divine hero; Adam – the first biblical man, created out of clay (see above); Lillith – a Mesopotamian and Judaic female figure, the first wife of Adam; Copernicus – a mathematician and astronomer, among other things, from the Renaissance. Though there are notable people by the name Mabel, for the bravest one he might just refer to the English meaning of the Latin-derived name, "lovable" or "dear".
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