> The
> ordinary emotions are suppressed as they interfere with the
> attainment of the Ideals. The Ideal Love is a caricature of
> the real thing and only the Loskalmi are unable to see this
> (our heroes excluded of course). It is this unwitting alienation
> from human emotions that fuels the Kingdom of War and ultimately
> turns Loskalm into a worse horror.
That's clever. Yes, I like this. It fits in well with the underlying theme that alienation from certain natural emotions and responses are the gateway to Bad Stuff, whether the excesses of Illumination breeding nihilism and Chaos or the consequences of the monomania of an Arkat. Neat.
Mark
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