> If you read those stories Greg refers to them, they are *far* less medieval than you might assume. Greg knows an awful lot more about medieval Europe since writing Pendragon than before that. Frex, in the early stories about Seshnela (I got them all), the Seshnelans were clearly a polytheistic peoples (no Invisible God back then!) with lots of lines like this:
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> "Uthal is born to a well-off Brithini family, his father being a priest of Humakt. Just as his brother joined the priesthood as soon as possible (Imtalor, priest of Bakan), Uthal follows his father and is ordained a priest of Humakt when he is sixteen, ascending quickly to become a full priest. He is initiated into the cult of Argat at seventeen, and the cults of Malkion and Britha when nineteen. Under his brother's prompting he also joins the priesthood of Bakan when twenty years old."
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> Now maybe I am wrong, but that really does not sound like medieval Catholicism.
Here's another one:
"After the War of the Gods, Brithos remained peaceful for a tie, but after the death of Malkion's first son, the King of the Brithini after Malkion's apotheosis, there arose a dispute concerning the crown. Zzabur demanded that he be crowned, despite the fact that the Sceptre of Kingship belonged by inheritance to Zzabur's nephew. There arose a short civil war in which the forces of Zzabur swept the field and nearly won. But the priests of Humakt called upon that god, their ancestor, and Humakt himself settled the dispute, saying that the young king, Elrtof Keytleson, was rightful king and Zzabur had no claim to the throne. Thus was established the custom of passing the kingship on to the eldest child, a standard kept good by the promise of Humakt. The god also commanded that no sorcerer of the race could ever hold the crown."
Jeff