> >The oldest style is the Footstool (or Ziggurat) which dates
> >from the Golden Age.
>It was called Selshena in GROY and FS (Greg's Lunar Novel). But I am
>skeptical about such construction have survived long since Golden Age
Well since it's in the shape of a pyramid, destroying it is always going to be very difficult. So I'm comfortable with the notion of it surviving in ruins.
>(Or TakenEgi reconstructed it several times)
It would have been mentioned in his list of great deeds if it happened.
>IMHO Sheng Seleris destroyed it,
Again it would have been noted. Instead we are told that Sheng Seleris placed the Empty Emperor on the Footstool (FS p63) and later his brother attempted the ten tests.
>never broken construction were
>Raibamus (a sort of Big Stone Clad (Meteor?) and magical pillar (called
>Shaft, p45 GROY) appearing for Tem Tests of each legitimate Emperors.
The Shaft of Light appears on top of the Footstool.
"We went east down the huge Imperial Way, towards the Square
of the Sun. From anyplace on that wide road, we could see
the Selshena. The huge pyramid was mounted by a tower. Atop
that, on holy days (I am told), the column of light called
Antirius appeared once again to bath Our Father [the Red
Emperor - PHM], and begin anew the cycles of appearing every
seven years."
YBoT p20.
>IMHO, Sheng Seleris could destroy everything except things made from
>Adamant...even God's Wall was "revised" by him.
I strongly doubt this. Any revision of the Gods Wall would be scars rather than rearrangements.
--Peter Metcalfe
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