Carmanians

From: Peter Metcalfe (P.Metcalfe@student.canterbury.ac.nz)
Date: Tue 05 Mar 1996 - 05:14:34 EET


Nick Brooke:
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On whether Viziers worship Dayzatar or Zrethus:

>my list was just proposals, so whether you call the Dayzatar-like cult
>of astrology and celestial purity etc. "Zretheus" or "Buserian" or
>whatever, I'll be happy.

>I know Irrippi Ontor was an astrologer (from the Seleric Verses), hence my
>interest.

Ah, you meant to say that some Viziers were Astrologers. My mistake, I
was a bit foggy minded at the time. I fully heartedly concur. I really
see the Dayzatar Monks in the Yuthuppan Millieu as being the cumulation
of a Starseers Spiritual Career (kind of like the Alchemist discovering
the Philosophers Stone). Most Yuthuppan Starseers worship (or IMO rather
follow the path of) Buserian throughout their lifetimes and only a few
become sufficiently advanced enough to attain the 'cosmic consciousness'
that allows them to join Dayzatar. Many outsiders mistakenly assume that
all Starseers are Dayzatar Priests nevertheless.

So the Brown Man is an Astrologer? Interesting in light of his uses of
Glamours...

>Carmanian Law: this could be inquisitorial for the lower orders, but
>dualist/adversarial for disputes between the nobility, perhaps?

Given that the Viziers are beneath the status of a Carmanos who surely
has a right to trial by his peers, I don't see anything wrong with this
proposal.

- --Peter Metcalfe

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