Palamedes had to keep himself busy, after all...
Anonymous asked:
Say more about the Locked Tomb theories that you mentioned in the tags of that Dulcie post?
I think I made a post about that before, but it wasn't very coherent.
tazmuir's quote about potentially facing excommunication for Alecto seems to be broadly interpretated as something like 'ooh stuff ist gonna happen with John/god', and I think that misses the point entirely.
you don't get excommunicated because you have someone kill a guy who happens to call himself god. you get excommunicated because your book actually contains the literal catholic god, and you fuck things up there.
I am going to bet there's either:
- literal actual heaven beyond the river, with someone like Dulci now being an enraptured angelic being because she had been to heaven
- the catholic god, who has been killed and that's why necromancy works, with something like the planet souls drawing the energy from their creator
- absolutely no god at all, with a long monologue held by jod who says he went looking for God, found none, and decided to step up
- or exactly the previous one, but jod just didn't find him, and someone else will.
I think all the people going 'I wonder why tazmuir believes she'll be excommunicated' and continuing to make up heretical scenarios involving John are on the wrong track.
You don't get excommunicated because you call some guy God and have him get pregnant. You might be on slightly less safe territory if your story explicitly references Catholic doctrine and breaks shit.
Like. John knows about catholicism. He can call himself god as much as he wants, but the moment he goes 'hey btw literal actual catholicism from back before the resurrection? They got it half right. I crossed the river and jesus was over there pegging Satan, so I left them to it and closed actual capital H Heaven off to all souls henceforth' it's a different story.
(or like. Some character explores what's beyond the river and comes to new religious conclusions. That's kinda what Harrow was up to, wasn't it?)