Quote:The, er, guest appearance didn't bother me either. Heck, it made me grin madly.
Am I apparently the ONLY person who didnt have a problem with that guest appearance? because personally, it just seemed to 'fit' to me...
I like, and I mean really really like what Gryphon did with the Ignatines. I mean...they're warrior monks. CHRISTIAN warrior monks. The brief mention in Warrior's Legacy just made me smile, and the way he developed it in UF (or rather in the BPGD entries) was great.
Geoff Depew's expansion of the concept, and the way he's portrayed it...well, that's just gravy. Like, you know, the really good gravy that you just wanna continue spooning and eating even when the actual food's gone, making your mom squint at you and say something about bad table manners...but you can't stop, because the gravy's that good.
Right.
Yeah. So.
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I found the notion of Sister Destiny getting a life-changing vision...insanely compelling one. She had a Damascus moment, as it were. So there's a certain thematic link, a kind of narrative continuity, when UF-Geoff has his own encounter in the heat of battle.
And actually seeing you-know-who fits the whole notion of the character's evolution. There's the sense that although he was training to be a Cleric, UF-Geoff didn't really have faith as such. Heck, he wasn't a fully functional person. Now that's changed. It ties in with what he explicitly says at the end of the story. That's well done.
-- Acyl