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<blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 5893725" data-attributes="member: 4303"><p>Yes, when Fillein imprisoned him. She was part of the original cabal, but had misgivings about him being bound on the Prime and dismissed him.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Maybe, if I ever get round to it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The previous update tries to draw so many disparate threads together, and I felt it might be too ambitious. Sometimes, I can be incredibly pedantic about the language I use, and fuss over tiny details. The Eadric/Soneillon Yab-Yum/annihilation passage caused me enormous grief, as I wanted to convey too much at once: a sense of mature mutual comfortableness, emphasise the mystical experience, and preserve the erotic subtext without resorting to overtly sexual language.</p><p></p><p>I'm happier with it than I was, as I've had a chance to process it a little. There comes a point sometimes when I can't bring any objectivity to bear upon what I write. I experience a kind of mental constipation; if things are flowing more freely, I'm less self-critical.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Cheshnite religion is a kind of hybrid of Shaktism and Tibetan Tantrism with a very dark cast put upon it; <em>ugras</em> and <em>bhitis</em> might be considered the equivalent of the most malevolent aspects of Tantric <em>yidams</em>. The fact that I've chosen Sanskrit to represent the language of Shuth further reinforces the connection.</p><p></p><p>Buddhist philosophy and religion in general is massively implicated in many aspects of the campaign; the practice of <em>Saizhan</em> itself is essentially a restructuring of Buddhist objectless meditations such as <em>zazen</em> or <em>Dzogchen</em>. The common ground of being/not being - the transmetaphysic -features heavily in <em>Madhyamaka</em> philosophy; in <em>saizhan</em> the third ontic state, Becoming, is also implicated; this differs from Buddhist philosophy, where Becoming is generally viewed as the solution to the being/not being conundrum. The comment made by tleilaxu regarding Heidegger's <em>Dasein</em> is also very close to the mark: there is an essay <a href="http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/ew96640.htm" target="_blank">here</a> if you're interested.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Good question. That would be a logical deduction, given its status as the fourth "royal star." Its opposition to Regulus would also cement Shomei's role of <em>Adversary</em>, of course.</p><p></p><p>You'll have to wait and see.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Liberally embossing after the event in order to build a story and mythology on what has gone before is what it's all about. The players tend to want to just smite things or blow them up. Fortunately, I have a knack for manipulating symbols.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sepulchrave II, post: 5893725, member: 4303"] Yes, when Fillein imprisoned him. She was part of the original cabal, but had misgivings about him being bound on the Prime and dismissed him. Maybe, if I ever get round to it. The previous update tries to draw so many disparate threads together, and I felt it might be too ambitious. Sometimes, I can be incredibly pedantic about the language I use, and fuss over tiny details. The Eadric/Soneillon Yab-Yum/annihilation passage caused me enormous grief, as I wanted to convey too much at once: a sense of mature mutual comfortableness, emphasise the mystical experience, and preserve the erotic subtext without resorting to overtly sexual language. I'm happier with it than I was, as I've had a chance to process it a little. There comes a point sometimes when I can't bring any objectivity to bear upon what I write. I experience a kind of mental constipation; if things are flowing more freely, I'm less self-critical. The Cheshnite religion is a kind of hybrid of Shaktism and Tibetan Tantrism with a very dark cast put upon it; [I]ugras[/I] and [I]bhitis[/I] might be considered the equivalent of the most malevolent aspects of Tantric [I]yidams[/I]. The fact that I've chosen Sanskrit to represent the language of Shuth further reinforces the connection. Buddhist philosophy and religion in general is massively implicated in many aspects of the campaign; the practice of [I]Saizhan[/I] itself is essentially a restructuring of Buddhist objectless meditations such as [I]zazen[/I] or [I]Dzogchen[/I]. The common ground of being/not being - the transmetaphysic -features heavily in [I]Madhyamaka[/I] philosophy; in [I]saizhan[/I] the third ontic state, Becoming, is also implicated; this differs from Buddhist philosophy, where Becoming is generally viewed as the solution to the being/not being conundrum. The comment made by tleilaxu regarding Heidegger's [I]Dasein[/I] is also very close to the mark: there is an essay [URL="http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/ew96640.htm"]here[/URL] if you're interested. Good question. That would be a logical deduction, given its status as the fourth "royal star." Its opposition to Regulus would also cement Shomei's role of [I]Adversary[/I], of course. You'll have to wait and see. Liberally embossing after the event in order to build a story and mythology on what has gone before is what it's all about. The players tend to want to just smite things or blow them up. Fortunately, I have a knack for manipulating symbols. [/QUOTE]
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