Nick:
> My take on this: pre-Sheng, the original Council of Egi was always the same
> when they arranged each reincarnation. When Takenegi was offed, he came back
> exactly the same *because* their "inputs" were exactly the same: the Egi
> didn't remake him any differently. (Insert a certain amount of mystical
> hand-waving here to explain the identical body each time, but how hard can
> this be? Trivial differences between the Four Quarters' specialisations
> aren't enough to bother me).
I don't substantiatively disagree with this, though I think that regarding it as self-resurrection, or at least, more akin to selfresurrection than later occurrences, is a useful thing, and in keeping with the More or Less Dara Happan Than Thou pattern of Lunar development. If one were a Dara Happan living during that period, you could certainly _think_ of the process as being resurrection pure and simple, with the Egi pretty much just playing a 'ritual' part, without needing to be 'inputs' as such, if not out and out just sunning themselves on the bright side of the moon.
Post-Sheng, I agree without any real need of caveat. If you want to think of it as a resurrection, it's a pretty dang weird one, these days, but it still has an element of that. Naturally you can also take the view that it was always recreation/reincarnation, and the post-Sheng differences are simply a yet more perfect unfolding of the Goddess's plan, with the cyclic and/or circumstantial Masks being a distinct improvement on the original scheme, with its 'Dara Happan veneer' of unchanging inflexibility.
Cheers,
Alex.
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