From: Brian K. Curley (Master of Time & Space) (bkc@axle.adp.wisc.edu)
Date: Sat 15 Jun 1996 - 01:54:33 EEST
Some thoughts:
MSmylie:
> This seems to pretty well imply that Argrath had _already_ performed the
> Lightbringer's Quest, placing the events of "Argrath and the Devil" after
> 1677. Either "Argrath and the Devil" is an alternative version of the 'final
> battle' in which the Seven Dragons tear down the Moon, or it is in fact a
> 'lost text' describing the battle that happens _after_ the Moon is torn down
> and the Devil is revealed in her stead.
> do, to such chaotics as it meets.
I am reminded of the words of Cotton Mather: The Devil is never more
like himself than when he masquerades as an angel of light.
Mark Groff:
> All this would lead frequently to acts of atonement, ritual self
> purification, suicide, and convert fanaticism, and would explain "the
> Pure One" in the Zola Fel pantheon, and the wild healer of the rockwoods.
That would be "The Cleansed One", I believe.
Brian (the nitpicker)
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