At 01:24 AM 1/12/2002 GMT, you wrote:
>Does he need to take the Ten Tests _again_ ? Wasn't the time he took
>them in 1250 enough?
Maybe good for him, but not for the latest round of nobles, power grabbers,
rebels, exploiters and opportunists. It is the one final and definitive
proof. If you can do it, you are Emperor. If you can't (and many more have
failed that the canon shows) then you are not emperor.
He does so to prove it, and obtain the benefits from having done so (like a
new Mantle of Antirius.) This is taken as proof (by some factional
philosophies) that he is a different being.
And note that he always takes the Eleventh Test, too.
>After all, Moonson is called the 77th Emperor of Dara Happa, not the
>77th, 78th, 79th, 80th, 81st... etc) Emperors. Re-taking the Tests
>implies that each incarnation is a different person to the preceding
>Red Emperor...
You are a good Lunar citizen! :)
The canons certainly agree with you, but even the TFS documents come pretty
close, don't they?
The Empire has power groups within it that have different ideas of how to
provide the next Emperor, and whether or not the whole Masks of the Emperor
since the Fourth Wane is not a sham. The Hero Wars are going to let each
faction thrust forth their candidate and prove who is right.
Such is essentially a major Lunar Story Arc in the Hero Wars that is going
to come after SS eats the Emperor in 1648 (KoS p 34).
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