User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Neutral 'verse Character Sheet: Emperor Bradley Hargrave/@comment-4867780-20151210082858/@comment-26322734-20151212034917

Okay, so wish machines are outfitted with specialized A.I. (modified consciousness derived from political prisoners, specialized to do whatever Bradley needs them to do at the moment) that do a process called Intention Filtering. It's actually a telepathic process in which the mind of the one making the wish is searched and scanned in full within a few seconds for any harmful intentions towards the regime or other members of the regime, then the wish is granted. They rely more on the magical side, as you can probably tell, due to the massive reality warping shenanigans involved.

(Thanks. I'll fix it.)

As for Terra Ultima, a serious case of alien geometries is at work here. The city itself is really an incomplete reflection of what it really is. It's something completely Other. It exists in neither space nor time as we can understand it, and it's somewhat sentient. It bends space and time to cannibalize subjects, and the effects are...unpredictable to say the least. When it assimilates, say, a city, the city assimilated is replaced with a construct of Terra Ultima, complete with an alternate history and a different set of physics. Subjects that are cannibalized essentially become one with Terra Ultima, and Emperor Hargrave by extension.

Thanks! Doctor Doom is actually what I was going for when making Bradley. Someone who truly believes that Utopia Justifies the Means, even if those means are cruel Authoritarianism and terrorism. :P This is also a partial nod to the Silver Ladder's ideal from Mage: the Awakening (only by the hand of a strong leader may humanity achieve greatness).

The Selforge Possibility Matrix is actually a pretty fascinating concept. Having a whole multiverse of information in your head. It really shows how inhuman and transcendent Lawrence is, making him a truly godly entity. I also like the idea of it; like he's a living supercomputer and a consciousness all rolled in one. Very transhuman-esque.