[Dragaera] Messianic figures (was: New Items at the Adrilankha Gift Shop)

[Elizabeth Dalton]

Well yeah (except for the Purple Robes), but that's the point. Everybody 
is responsible for their own fate; nobody takes on the karmic burdens, 
if you will, of anyone else. No one intercedes with the Lords of 
Judgment regarding the dispositions of the souls of others. (Except Vlad 
and Morrolan, as regards to Aliera, but that was only for 1 soul, rather 
a special case.) When the Lords of Judgment decide to send help to the 
Empire, they send the Necromancer, a demon, but she provides practical, 
not spiritual help.

If Devera incarnates and radically changes the path of the Empire and 
the system of the Lords of Judgment deciding the disposition of the 
souls of the dead, that would count. Or if Vlad causes the souls of 
Easterners to be managed by the Lords of Judgment, rather than just 
reincarnated willy-nilly, that might count. But honestly, I don't see 
this particular religious tradition playing out on Dragaera. I think a 
Guan Yin/bodhisattva figure would make more sense, and again, I'd call 
Devera the best candidate for that role.

Um. I may reverse myself. Zerika could potentially be a messianic 
figure. She returns alive from the Paths of the Dead with the 
"salvation" of the Empire in the form of the Orb. In the Judaic 
tradition, that might make her a messiah. And when you consider that the 
Jenoine would have figured out that the Orb was missing eventually and 
then attacked and presumably destroyed or enslaved the humans and/or 
dragaerans, she might even be a messiah in more spiritual terms.

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Kenneth Gorelick wrote:
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> No Christ figure? Hell, in Dragaera EVERYBODY is resurrected!!!
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> On Dec 2, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Elizabeth Dalton wrote:
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>> "What would Devera do?" But you're right, there's no Christ figure (so
>> far) in Dragaeran theology. Poor Vlad may end up stuck with the role.
>> :shudders:
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>> Howard Brazee wrote:
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>>> I'm thinking that the WWJD question (What Would Jesus Do), doesn't
>>> really work as a guide to how to live with Dragaeran gods.
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