> Are you sure the side bar material isn't just rumour?
Of course I hadn't considered that option.
> IMHO the glowline, crimson domes of lunar power that protects the
> empire, are a magical echo of the Dome of Manarlavus, a golden dome
> built by the Dara Happan Emperor to protect the Empire. I think it's
> ruins are still visible in some parts of Peloria.
Cool -- is there further information on the dome in some semi-modern publication?
> I like the sound of Entropic Engines, but I'm not sure how they'd fit
> in to this. Lunar magic isn't realy very mechanical in nature. OTOH
> since Yara Aranis was the Terror of the Pentans, perhaps the machines
> are powered by the bound souls of damned Pentan warriors and their
> steeds, trapped in magical wheels representing lunar cyclic power,
> which harness their energy to protect the empire they swore to
> destroy.
Yeah, I didn't envision Mostali-style machines so much as something simple like a huge spinning mill-wheel, continuously tearing away minute pieces of the spirits/souls/essences of Pentans and their allies.
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Here's some extrapolation from that entirely non-canonical idea: Perhaps the empire *needs* (or at least certain factions within the empire believe that it needs) Sheng Seleris to return, so that more Pentans can be fed into the engines.
-- Means and Ends, a Nobilis series http://pile.org/means/
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