Sep-15-2010, 12:58 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Sep-15-2010, 01:33 PM (UTC) by Farseer.)
Love it!! No, it hadn't been discussed, but I agree! I read both of those parts in AA again the other day and thought, 'Woah' 
!!! I know that Fool had also spoken of balances somewhere but I have to go back and find the references. I think it was in relation to how the existance of dragons balances humans. Possibly this weighing of balances, or bringing the world back into balance, is one of his roles as WP in the RotE?
Aargh! This laptop's making me crazy so will save anything further re the MK religion until I can get to a keyboard that doesn't eat every second word!l
Had to try and attempt at least this...when Rurisk went into Fitz's room after Kettricken had tried to poison him (the first time
!), he said to Fitz, "It is fully a miracle of Chranzuli that you still live." I assumed from this that Chranzuli is a MK deity of some kind? Possibly even the MK equivalent of Sa and Eda/El or yet another facet of/name for the same being, along with Odava? If so many characters can have numerous and different names/facets of themselves eg Fool and Fitz, why couldn't their god (sorry, think I've mentioned that before somewhere!)? I have noticed that Fool often praises or thanks 'the gods' so possibly they are all different or he is simply referring to the different facets.
I also thought it interesting that Kettricken mentioned that she would demand Fitz's life as justice for taking Rurisk's (if he went ahead and killed him) and it was only that she invoked her kin-right to forgive kin injury for kin that she didn't seek his death to balance Rurisk's (not to mention he wasn't guilty of the crime!). It is as though this balance is a MK way of life, as it also is for all living in the RotE, and even us. You know, an eye for an eye, and all that. It is this concept of balance that made me believe that the gods (Sa etc) became displeased with Kennit after what he did to Althea, and what he planned to do with his own son, that they possibly took his life as payment (as just one other rather vague example that is no doubt a bit of a stretch!).
!!! I know that Fool had also spoken of balances somewhere but I have to go back and find the references. I think it was in relation to how the existance of dragons balances humans. Possibly this weighing of balances, or bringing the world back into balance, is one of his roles as WP in the RotE? Aargh! This laptop's making me crazy so will save anything further re the MK religion until I can get to a keyboard that doesn't eat every second word!l
Had to try and attempt at least this...when Rurisk went into Fitz's room after Kettricken had tried to poison him (the first time
!), he said to Fitz, "It is fully a miracle of Chranzuli that you still live." I assumed from this that Chranzuli is a MK deity of some kind? Possibly even the MK equivalent of Sa and Eda/El or yet another facet of/name for the same being, along with Odava? If so many characters can have numerous and different names/facets of themselves eg Fool and Fitz, why couldn't their god (sorry, think I've mentioned that before somewhere!)? I have noticed that Fool often praises or thanks 'the gods' so possibly they are all different or he is simply referring to the different facets.I also thought it interesting that Kettricken mentioned that she would demand Fitz's life as justice for taking Rurisk's (if he went ahead and killed him) and it was only that she invoked her kin-right to forgive kin injury for kin that she didn't seek his death to balance Rurisk's (not to mention he wasn't guilty of the crime!). It is as though this balance is a MK way of life, as it also is for all living in the RotE, and even us. You know, an eye for an eye, and all that. It is this concept of balance that made me believe that the gods (Sa etc) became displeased with Kennit after what he did to Althea, and what he planned to do with his own son, that they possibly took his life as payment (as just one other rather vague example that is no doubt a bit of a stretch!).
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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