>The Elves did help in
>expelling the humans from Old Seshnela and are thought to
>be allied with the Luatha.
I find this fascinating. It makes sense on the side of the Elves, but I quite honestly can't think of much the Elves would have to offer Luathans.
>Derita the Pest is asking if Zzabur is helping because she
>doesn't see him there. Malkion's request is presumably in
>the form of a long distance communication.
You're absolutely right; this leaves me thinking about Datita's other apocryphal "Pest Stories" that have grown up in the folklore, like the way medieval Europeans came up with elaborate stories and mythologies around every single individual mentioned, named or not, in the Gospels.
I also wonder if Malkion and Zzabur's "two-way communicator watch" spell exists today and is accessible to beings who aren't embodied Runes.
>>7) Many, if not most, saints seem to have existed In Time.
>>
>This is true and I think the appearance is wrong. The majority
>of Saints would have walked alongside Malkion during the Ice
>Age.
This is my instinct as well, but I suspect this might be a minority viewpoint. As for Saint Makri, I dunno. Isn't his story pretty much crediting him with bringing Malkionism to Pamaltela? I've seen saints canonized for less.
>The Material and Power animals are only the names of the Elemental
>(Earth, Fire etc) and Power (Truth, Death) runes in bestial form.
Maybe if you're some Atheist Brithini. I think that Good Hrestoli know in their Hearts that Menaken and Urile and all the others were real, mythical beasts of Old that in God's infinite wisdom *also* symbolized and embodied the Runes.
>My take is that many, if indeed not most, of the chaos gods and
>demons known from elsewhere are present in the West. [...] I don't
>think chaos entities
>truly fit the three-worlds-model, and are equally accessible to all
>forms of magical contact.
or equally *inaccesible* of course. But hey, validation on me bringing Gark up to Seshnela for some zombie action!
>The Castle Coast is described in Heroes of Malkion, which should be
>the next book out after the two that are currently at the printers.
>
>There's an underground black magic cult in Heroes of Malkion that
>can serve as a model for any others you might need
But I want it nowwwwwww, not in six months! >_<
>Witchcraft still survives in Seshnela. I'm of the opinion that the
>Inquisition aren't much fun if there's nobody real for them to hunt.
>Equally, of course, they're not much fun if they're too good at
>actually finding them, as opposed to, say, innocent old women.
Oh, but when they find those *guilty* old women, the Dronari get an exciting afternoon off, don't they!
Your views on superstition and fragments of magic vs active secret Seshna worship are pretty close to mine, it seems. :)
Thank you again, everyone! People who haven't answered, please chime in!
Ian
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