Thread:Garr9988/@comment-5782071-20170108024434/@comment-1674153-20170109015644

So you're saying that not all the energy and matter in the big bang was used up completely, and the leftover bits manifested into orbs of great cosmic power, and when one of those orbs is broken the energy is released and inhabits or charges (or full on creates via the Tulpa effect) various items and makes them artifacts. This explains where the energy an artifact expends comes from.

In another creative work I think this could work a lot better, but given the nature of artifacts and the history of the Warehouse isn't this explanation a little too complicated? Because it could work...but I have a fundamental problem with MacGuffins like these.

Because artifacts are born from moments in time meeting emotions meeting an object, this release of energy wouldn't be able to create an artifact that had a moment even a minute before the energy was introduced into the system. The reaction passed. Which would mean this influx of energy would only ever be able to charge old artifacts or manifest in new ones, as they happen in the future or as they are created by the energy itself.

If old artifacts are being charged by this influx of energy, it seems to suggest that artifacts can run out of power, which could be true but is kind of unsatisfying when you consider that there hasn't been one artifact that was out of juice canonically. They all functioned, which I will grant could be a charging system of occasional broken Big Bang Balls combined with limited use, but...Artifacts react constantly to energy, including electricity and emotions. They plug themselves into a power source and wreak havoc, whether that power source be an electrical current like the Rudolph Nose or an emotional current like Lucrezia Borgia's Comb. So whatever purpose a BBB would have, charging artifacts doesn't seem like it's needed.

And if the broken BBB did activate older artifacts, there's no evidence of a surge of artifacts appearing in more frequency at the start of the show to prior to it's start. Artie was a solo older agent, yes, but he did occassionally work with his son and he most assuredly had contacts, including Vanessa. Various agents died, disappeared, or went insane, and we don't know how recently those occured. A broken cosmo ball could have prompted the Warehouse to beef it's collection team, but the Warehouse has canonically found every single agent through a collection job and not through a help wanted ad. The Warehouse would have no excuse to pass any potential agent up regardless of how many they had employed.

I have no arguement against the Tulpa thing except that I do believe most Tulpa artifacts assume way too much of a fandom, as well as the permanance of entertainment media amongst the culture as a whole.