ML:
> Yeah, I tried to sell this one to Greg after our discussion and was Gregged.
I don't understand from your later comments (or otherwise) in what fashion or in what respect this has been gregged: that the sultans have different Masks as forebears, that they worship same, or the 'benefits' they gain thereby? I can't immediately even see what's controversial about this (unlike all this Proxy stuff, which seems Very Eggy (not to be confused with 'very Egi') to me, and I will refrain from comment on until it starts looking like less of a moving target to we mortals).
> He has never been a human and is not an avatar (though he does contain
> parts of Yelm).
I must confess, I don't understand why this _doesn't_ make him an avatar of Yelm... Or at least, an (n/6)-avatar, where n is a number of your chosing particular to a given Dara Happan Emperor/Mask of Moonson.
> The Egi have no control over _where_ he manifests or how. Sometimes he is
> not believed but he is the Emperor and has the power to chase out those who
> would deny him. In many ways this has been a blessing for often traitors are
> exposed. One of the Emperors secrets is that he dies deliberately simply to
> see what crawls ouf ot the woodwork.
Or to translate in Nick's Cynic-Speak: the guy who wins any given broo-ha-ha about who is the real emperor, obviously is and was the real emperor; and if the emperor expires in a sudden, messy, and superficially embarrassing manner, it obviously serves some cosmic purpose, _really_.
Obviously another wheeze they swiped off of Kralorela: "Wasn't that the Great Dragon Sage, plummeting to his death off that parapet?" "He meant to do that, honestly."
Slán,
Alex.
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