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[alicornucopia]

So we've started answering comments in "How To Read Effulgence" in character, and that's not really the ideal platform for those conversations. This is! You may address characters here and we may opt to answer in character. You will get a kind of loosely "backstage" out-of-continuity version of the character (in continuity proper, you cannot talk to them, since you aren't there) and if you want them at a specific (past relative to where we're writing) point in time, feel free to specify (e.g. "Addy in 1932", "Shell in her box", "the Joker while committed", "Minus right after he woke up from turning", "the alethiometer on the subject of 1207").

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Samarian Punishments

[daniel_h]

Angela, before Ithiel’s birth,

During the reign of the archangel Raphael, angels were allowed to tell priests to amputate mortals’ right arms as punishment, in order to both separate them from Jovah in the present and to make it so Jovah would not know when they died and would not prepare a place in the afterlife.

(You and the other Bells have not met them yet, but this reminds me of some other worlds with creatures which can eat human’s souls, and some governments used this as a punishment for serious crimes.)

Does this practice still exist? Is theology still such that the implications of the punishment are seen as the same, or was that a temporary aberration in theological thinking? I can see how that theological opinion could be common in Raphael’s day, when people didn’t commonly acknowledge the undedicated Edori, but I expect it would necessarily be less common now.

If the practice hasn’t been abolished by now, do you at least plan to do that if or when you gain more political power? Even leader of the hold would be enough to greatly curtail the practice, and even if you don’t want to admit there are good odds of you becoming archangel, you must realise you’ll probably have that title within a few years.

Re: Samarian Punishments

[daniel_h]

Ah, never mind about the first part; I see that undedication does still exist, and that you will threaten Canaan of Semorrah with it when he attempts to reclaim Nathaniel. I don’t know if it still has the same theological implications or still involves amputation, though.

Re: Samarian Punishments

[alicornucopia]

I don't super wanna do DW stuff anymore