From: David Cake (davidc@cs.uwa.edu.au)
Date: Tue 30 Jan 1996 - 09:35:31 EET
Those of us who attended RQ Con (insert copious general praise of
The first and most outrageous theory is that Argrath, at the end of
Nick already believes that there is enough evidence within KOS to
Now, assume that Argrath hates the expansionist empire that he has
And at first, he thinks it has worked. Sheng goes and chops the Red
And all sorts of strange refugees end up in his court, and some of
MOB, John, and Andrew here) and heard Greg's address have now heard the true
path of the Red Goddess (and I think that there were several glorious
conversions over the weekend, as barbarians acknowledged the truth of the
Lunar way).
And armed with my several new books of Lunar lore, I have a few
bizarre Lunar theories and questions to try out on the Daily over the next
few days.
King of Sartar, is deliberately helping the Red Goddess when he tears the
Red Moon from the sky.
conclude that the Lunars win. Greg believes that you could conclude that as
well. A key part of this is the final frantic statement at the end of
Argraths saga, about how the Moon is still there but now is invisible.
fought against most of his life. He hears of its greatest foe, Sheng
Seleris, and undertakes a heroquest of enormous difficulty in order to bring
him back.
Emperor up, and generally kicks the Lunar army around, etc. But then it all
goes wrong - Sheng doesn't want to destroy the Lunar Empire. He wants to
rule it, and create an empire that is probably even worse, from Argraths
point of view, as it is not tempered with the Lunar tolerance.
them have all sorts of interesting theories. Those White Moonies, possibly.
He helps people like the Fazzurites, some of whom are probably as wise in
the ways of Lunar magic as Fazzur was. On his visit to the worst hell where
Sheng was imprisoned, he may been exposed to other secrets. Gerra, goddess
of suffering, is a mask of the Red Goddess. Her illumination occurs in the
worst hell. And he already has been exposed to some draconic powers.
So Argrath, with good Lunar reasoning, decides that what he needs to
do is not attack the Empire (e has already done that) but heal it. He
gathers together his forces, and, probably in cooperation with loyalists to
the Lunar path within the Empire, decides to heal the Moon. He probably also
reasons that Sheng has shown he can defeat the Red Moon - so the Moon needs
to come into its full power, the White Moon. So he wants to bring back the
White Moon, which is both the Moon made more powerful to defeat Sheng, and
the Moon healed of the need for conquest that so repells him. And with his
knowledge of draconic utuma, and perhaps the knowledge of sacrifice from
Gerra (or maybe his Lunar allies supply that) he realises that for the Moon
to come again, the Moon must be destroyed. He destroys the Moon in order to
heal it.
Any comments?
A David (but I'm not telling which one)
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