Martin:
>The LARP shows Moonson as being a noble who became Emperor after completing
>the rituals. Though I agree with MOB and Nick that this is fun and
>playable from the players perspective, I think it is less theologically
>correct than a singular Emperor. So while their work is excellent if one
>follows their argument and approach, I disagree with the core theological
>concept of the Emperors form.
I refer Martin back to Nick Brooke's excellent post "Testing the Candidates" (GD V7 #581), especially his concluding remarks:
>FINALLY: "Life of Moonson" does *not* accurately depict a normal Imperial
>succession crisis. It's a freeform game, dammit! Greg helped write "The
>Broken Council", but if you tore strips off his Gbaji Wars material because
>that game presented the creation of Nysalor as a perversely complex
>trading-card game, he would be justifiably amused (or annoyed, depending on
>his whim).
And, using LoM as our definitive view of the Imperial Succession would be as fair to us as regarding the trading-card game in Broken Council as Greg's ultimate statement on the mythic genesis of Nysalor.
Cheers,
MOB
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