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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 5919828" data-attributes="member: 4936">Ah! Okay gotcha. Yeah, that's one thing too is that Juno is still fairly new to this empowerment. It may be that the gifts mature over time and experience. I didn't realize you could get more things in the future. Still haven't read that chapter yet. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The notion of the divinely chosen/empowered king is one of those unifying elements of human history it seems. From the pharohs of old to the emperor of feudal Japan and China...to the divine mandate of the European kings... And of course the Mayan ruling lineage from which I borrow a lot of my pseudo-mythology; considered the descendents of the hero-twins who ascended to godhood after defeating the forces of the Underworld.It's all neat stuff. In the Dresdenverse, it seems likely that a lot of these gods and divine figures are just masks of a related set of movers and shakers...who may ultimately be expressions of a singular force. Whether or not that force is 'God' or something else (the personification of the collective faith of mankind perhaps) is one of the capital-M Mysteries of the fiction.Hooray!I'll look forward to the post regarding meddling in each other's stories like certain kids who prevent people from getting away with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 5919828, member: 4936"] Ah! Okay gotcha. Yeah, that's one thing too is that Juno is still fairly new to this empowerment. It may be that the gifts mature over time and experience. I didn't realize you could get more things in the future. Still haven't read that chapter yet. :) The notion of the divinely chosen/empowered king is one of those unifying elements of human history it seems. From the pharohs of old to the emperor of feudal Japan and China...to the divine mandate of the European kings... And of course the Mayan ruling lineage from which I borrow a lot of my pseudo-mythology; considered the descendents of the hero-twins who ascended to godhood after defeating the forces of the Underworld. It's all neat stuff. In the Dresdenverse, it seems likely that a lot of these gods and divine figures are just masks of a related set of movers and shakers...who may ultimately be expressions of a singular force. Whether or not that force is 'God' or something else (the personification of the collective faith of mankind perhaps) is one of the capital-M Mysteries of the fiction. Hooray! I'll look forward to the post regarding meddling in each other's stories like certain kids who prevent people from getting away with it. [/QUOTE]

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