Fronelan theology

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:19:36 +1200 (NZST)


Joerg Baumgartner:

[on whether the Brithini identified Malkion as the Creator, I quoted]

Me>>Enclosure #1 talks about the belief of the Fronelans in part.
>>In particular "Estrekor stressed that [...] Fronelan Malkion
>>was not the true Creator but rather the evil Lord of Matter."

>Doesn't sound like a Malkioni belief...

What? The fact that Estrekor called Malkion the evil Lord of matter or the fact that the Fronelans said Malkion was the Creator?

>>Elsewhere the God of the Fronelans (this is second age stuff)
>>is called FroNalinko and Fron Im Malakinus.

>These are part of a dualistic pair, FroNalakino the Evil Sorcerer and
>Malakinus the Good Wizard. I had the impression that Estrekor addressed
>the God Learner Malkion as FroNalakino.

So the One Mind of the Fronelans was called Malkion. And since the One Mind was the Creator, we can conclude that the Fronelans addressed the Creator as Malkion?

>>So the Fronelans evidently believed that Malkion was the Creator
>>who devolved himself into Malkion the Impersonal Force who devolved
>>itself into Malkion the Immortal. I do not believe that this is a
>>God Learner Error and was something that the Brithini themselves
>>had known.

>I assumed that Estrekor was an anti-God Learner propagandist and theologist
>who managed to press their different teachings as a manifestation of evil
>into his own teachings before he departed.

And what does this have to do with the beliefs of the Fronelans? He was writing their beliefs down and was showing how it was wrong.

>I don't believe that the Return
>To Rightness crusaders came before the God Learner missionaries and
>traders... There would have been little point in fighting a religious war
>when all which mattered was who would rule (and those Fronelan Malkioni who
>accepted the Crusaders' message remained as lords, or why else should
>Syranthir's wife and brother have taken their side?).

The fact remains that there is an important religious dimension to Syranthir's expulsion from Fronela. It may not be apparent why there was one given the known facts but it was there nevertheless.

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