[Dragaera] (no spoilers) The 17 [Great Weapons]

[Jon Lincicum]

Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> On 8/11/06, Jon Lincicum <lincicum at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> But the cycle was there all the time, influencing events. It was *fate*,
>> the fate of the Cycle itself, that influenced the events to cause there
>> to be 17 houses instead of 16 (or 31, or 35, or whatever other number
>> you might find Paarfi waxing on about). This is *my* theory, anyway.
>>     
>
> Recall, though, that the Cycle is a set of 17 specific houses in a
> sequence, as opposed to merely the idea of 17 houses. So if you buy
> into the idea of the Cycle causing the number of tribes to shrink to
> 17, you might as well postulate that the Cycle selectively wiped out
> any tribes not listed on itself, and then spawned a tribe to match the
> one house of the Cycle not created as a Jenoine experiment. You might
> go even further and postulate that, if the Cycle is older than
> Dragaera, that the Cycle was manipulating events all along to ensure
> that e.g. winged cats called tiassa would evolve on Dragaera, Jenoine
> would create intelligent jhereg, etc.
>   
Well, we do have a whole pantheon of gods there to influence things, 
right? So why not?
> Color me a Cycle-skeptic
Is there no room for mysticism or fate left in our modern world? *sigh*

Majikjon