From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@compuserve.com)
Date: Fri 12 Jan 1996 - 10:10:44 EET
I'm off Down Under tonight, and won't be reading or posting regularly for a
while, unless I can prevail on uncle MOB for the wherewithal. Meanwhile, to tie
up a few loose ends:
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> What about the "freed slaves of the emperor dominating politics
Erik asks:
> phenomena which angers old fogies" of emperors like Claudius and
> Nero? Is there any similar thing in LE?
I was alluding to something similar when I mentioned how the Dara Happan old
fogies look down from their impotence in the Senate on Johnny-come-lately
Bureaucracy types who now hold Real Power and can get things done in the Empire.
The Lunar Way is the way of Upward Mobility (just look at the Red Goddess
Herself for proof of this!). This applies in the bureaucracy as much as in the
more 'power-oriented' cults (with their seven-point plans to gain demigod status
by HeroQuesting, and the like). However, the Dara Happans' ire would not solely
be directed at the freed slaves (though they are, if you like, the icing on the
cake), but rather at *everyone* without noble Yelmic ancestry who wields power
and plays a part in the politics of the empire.
This is, as you surmise, to avoid a too-obvious real-world parallel. It could
conceivably include the Red Emperor's favourite Horse, were he ever to be raised
to Satrap of Oraya or some such place. Something similar may have happened under
Sheng Seleris...
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Nils has sent us:
> A document written by the scholar Tomboro from Mokato
"Fascinating! I must meet this man as my Mission takes me through the East
Isles, spreading the Lunar Way and the Word of the Goddess!" writes Octavian
Suppositorius, former chief missionary of the Seven Mothers to the erstwhile
Kingdom of Sartar, now responsible for bringing the Thousand Isles of Wonder
into the Lunar Fold, one at a time... (I'm not quite sure if this is a
promotion, a long holiday, or a way of getting rid of me for a not
inconsiderable period of time).
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Nick
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