Whoa...ever have one of those 'sledgehammer revelations'?
I was pondering the 'free will' argument between Paradox and Doug, and how completely Paradox lost it because of a single error in presumption that Doug probably only realizes subconciously, and Paradox can't see the forest for the trees to realize...namely, the idea that Kami-sama is actually the one running the show. ;-)
Then it hit me--if you know Mercedes Lackey's work, in a way this is coming full circle, cosmology-wise, from the unpublished first Step to Velgarth (Hmmm. I'm presuming Doug didn't get to study the big picture there, just Alberich's view on it...) If you've read the last several books in the series, it's revealed that all the various deities of that world are actually *one* pair (and even that might be in doubt, really--it may be just one showing male and female aspects), with aspects of Maiden, Mother, Crone, and Warrior, interpreted different ways. Now in the AMG setting we once again have the Three...and what's Paradox's basic job relative to them? ;-)
I was pondering the 'free will' argument between Paradox and Doug, and how completely Paradox lost it because of a single error in presumption that Doug probably only realizes subconciously, and Paradox can't see the forest for the trees to realize...namely, the idea that Kami-sama is actually the one running the show. ;-)
Then it hit me--if you know Mercedes Lackey's work, in a way this is coming full circle, cosmology-wise, from the unpublished first Step to Velgarth (Hmmm. I'm presuming Doug didn't get to study the big picture there, just Alberich's view on it...) If you've read the last several books in the series, it's revealed that all the various deities of that world are actually *one* pair (and even that might be in doubt, really--it may be just one showing male and female aspects), with aspects of Maiden, Mother, Crone, and Warrior, interpreted different ways. Now in the AMG setting we once again have the Three...and what's Paradox's basic job relative to them? ;-)