>I can't help you with the technical details of who had the abiding book when and all that. Trotsky has a good diagram of how the Malkioni sects relate to each other.or descended from eahc other, on his >excellent site.
Seen it, like it, have no idea how official it is. Personally, I like limiting the Abiding Book's influence. It was huge, it was wide, but tainted due to the God Learners. So everyone who even uses it now doesn't use the whole thing, and lots of people don't use it at all ostensibly, although if you were an outsider and read what they do use, you would think they just use an edited version as well, since so many of the myths/stories/parables/wisdom is the same. (It *did* actually all come from the same source.)
>On castes, remember that the whole caste thing was 'designed' for an immortal populace of Brithini. The inheritance thing is a complication that is only required when there is death and birth mucking things >up. This is what makes the rules vague and open to interpretation.
Now *that* I like. That I can work with. I also seem to recall something about the Brithini being basically unchanging. Also, were caste laws set down before Time? Do the people of the West consider Time to have started at "The Dawn"? If so, then this is perfectly do-able. The laws sound unchanging because they are for an immortal people who don't experience Time as we do. i.e. - They were written for the wrong age. From there, people have been forced to interpret.
Of course, I still want some examples of exactly HOW these things are written, so I can riff off of them, but that's cool.
LC
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> I can't help you with the technical details of who had the abiding
> book when and all that. Trotsky has a good diagram of how the Malkioni
> sects relate to each other.or descended from eahc other, on his
> excellent site.
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> On castes, remember that the whole caste thing was 'designed' for an
> immortal populace of Brithini. The inheritance thing is a complication
> that is only required when there is death and birth mucking things up.
> This is what makes the rules vague and open to interpretation. The
> exact definitions of words are also made vague, although I understand
> that "Knighthood" is a specific Hrestoli status derived from Hrestol.
> The "fighting" caste is the soldiers.
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