> I dislike the naming of the cult levels as Kings, surely there's a =
> more appropriate title for Shargash's high priests?
Can't we give Enclosure a brief honeymoon period before we start pseudo- it?? :-)
I *liked* the Red King, Green King, [Black King] thing because it was so *obvious* that we were talking about the real rulers of the city: it had a kinda Gilgameshy, sacral kingy, Spartan dual monarchy, ancient worldy feel to it. ("Yeah, OK, so there's some Yelmic type from Raibanth sent to=
govern the city. But he doesn't run Alkoth, any more than those Yanafali officers run our regiments. There's one of him, a million of us. And what=
the Kings say, goes.")
If we said "The Alkothi word for 'King' is 'fruitloop'", and that the cit=
y
and cult were ruled by the Red and Green [and Black] 'fruitloops', I don'=
t
think it'd have the same effect on readers. Sometimes, explanation is mor=
e
valuable than deliberate obscurantism.
BTW, non-initiates of Shargash, please ignore any words between [square brackets]. Apart from those last ones, that is. [Whoops: giving confusing=
orders to a Shargashi -- I could be in trouble for this!]
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Nick
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