Peter:
> I wasn't really trying to leg-pull.
Oops, it looked like you did me a little joke on a western heresy piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago.
> I was primarily having
> fun in exploring how the Path of Immanent Mastery would view
> Kralori history and cosmos. Although what I said is not
> necessarily the truth (ie the Mandarins didn't do all the
> nasty things the cultists said they did), I do feel that
> the cultists will believe something along these lines.
But if the IMs are so hostile to the mainstream Kralorelan way, why do they hire themselves out as bodyguards to the emperor (without trying to kill him) and why are they tolerated at all?
> ObTopic: I just remembered that the Cult of Immanent Mastery
> is also worshipped in Bliss in Ignorance. How did it get
> there? BoI was never part of the New Dragons Ring and the
> New Kingdom of Wisdom (ie BiI after it was conquered by the
> conservative exarchs) was allegedly anti-NDR. I don't see
> the current Kralori Government deliberately transplanting a
> heretical cult into BiI (where they have enough problems
> with fruitcake-and-gore cults).
The ignorants are ignorants after all, so they could just have preferred the PoIM because they perceived it as an easy shortcut to draconic powrs.
> IMO the PoIM was imported by the rulers of the Kingdom of
> Wisdom to strengthen their armed forces (against the Ten
> Thousand Maniacs as well as the False Dragons Ring). Instead
> of being the heretical cult in Kralorela proper, they would
> be the main cult of the Bliss in Ignorance military.
That's however also perfectly plausible.
> Being
> Ignorants (Ignoramusi?), they know not that their magic is
> false draconism and see themselves as the loyal servants of
> the Mandarins of Bliss in Ignorance.
And that's such a nice ironic twist that it's hard to ignore. Hey, Peter, we agree on something!
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