From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Fri 14 Apr 2000 - 02:19:20 EEST
NB:
> >A note on hero cults of the imperial cult -- we've speculated that the
> >ancestral shrines to Moonson Imperator maintained by various Sultans'
> >households are (of course) shrines to the particular Mask which was their
> >Ancestor, and perhaps this shapes the powers and outlooks of those Sultans
> >and Nobles. (E.g. descendents of Ignifer may get zippy war or command
> >magics, unavailable nowadays through worship of Argenteus). One for the mix?
ML:
I don't understand from your later comments (or otherwise) in what fashion
> Yeah, I tried to sell this one to Greg after our discussion and was Gregged.
or in what respect this has been gregged: that the sultans have different
Masks as forebears, that they worship same, or the 'benefits' they gain
thereby? I can't immediately even see what's controversial about this
(unlike all this Proxy stuff, which seems Very Eggy (not to be confused
with 'very Egi') to me, and I will refrain from comment on until it
starts looking like less of a moving target to we mortals).
> He has never been a human and is not an avatar (though he does contain
> parts of Yelm).
I must confess, I don't understand why this _doesn't_ make him an
avatar of Yelm... Or at least, an (n/6)-avatar, where n is a number
of your chosing particular to a given Dara Happan Emperor/Mask of
Moonson.
> The Egi have no control over _where_ he manifests or how. Sometimes he is
> not believed but he is the Emperor and has the power to chase out those who
> would deny him. In many ways this has been a blessing for often traitors are
> exposed. One of the Emperors secrets is that he dies deliberately simply to
> see what crawls ouf ot the woodwork.
Or to translate in Nick's Cynic-Speak: the guy who wins any given
Obviously another wheeze they swiped off of Kralorela: "Wasn't that the
broo-ha-ha about who is the real emperor, obviously is and was the real
emperor; and if the emperor expires in a sudden, messy, and superficially
embarrassing manner, it obviously serves some cosmic purpose, _really_.
Great Dragon Sage, plummeting to his death off that parapet?" "He meant
to do that, honestly."
Slán,
Alex.
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