Sheng Seleris

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 18:04:02 +1300


Terra Incognita:

>Instant Torture Camp: Antigod Power Source of Sheng Seleris
>Magical Facility collecting Magical Power from criminal's life Power and
>agony
>who established?

It was an order of the Zolathi mystics that attempted to attain enlightenment from severe ascetism (ie instant torture). It's origins are murky, its precise workings now forgotten and after Sheng Seleris was defeated, Godunya abolished it. There was a similar practice in the Lunar Empire IIRC...

>why he escaped from it "officially"? (AFAIK, in M Laurie's idea, he
>escaped by his own power, but GS hinted in RQ4 Compendium that he
>succeeded administrators to think he was rehabilitated for Kralorelan
>Society as Danfive Xaron in Lunar Empire.)

Traditionally you leave the camp when you have become enlightened. At various stages, demons appear and offer you various inducements if you abandon the instant torture camp. They are usually rebuffed for enlightenment is thought to be a greater reward than mere worldly power. Sheng however eschewed enlightenment and chose to leave when the demons of temptation offered him the world. Hence when he left, nothing could stop him...

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