I like this concept of Bahamut's fayth as Zaon Jr.
The complex conversation is well played -- easy to follow all the voices, and I think you did well at bringing all the players to the side that made the most sense for them. The comparison to Operation Mi'ihen is really apt as well.
Heh. I didn't mean I was going to copy Tolkien precisely. But I use Tolkien the way many writers use Shakespeare. They may not imitate a particular Shakespearean piece directly (e.g. West Side Story is a loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet), but they may have a particular Shakespearean theme or story in mind, with some references to it.
I had the Council loosely in mind, of course, but more the Last Debate chapter of ROTK.
In both of those there is a council/debate scene that is somewhat stylized and serves the additional function of providing an organized, dramatic format where one can have the whole "cast" come together without it being too confusing, thereby helping sum up the cast and story and all the complex plot threads before launching into a new chunk.
But there's one Tolkien theme in particular I've been playing with: the "fool's hope" of Gandalf.
I discovered two Elvish words for hope in Tolkien's lexicon. One is amdír, translated as "hope based on rational expectations, extrapolations". The roots of the word
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I have just one question regarding the beginning of this chapter. That binding ritual. Did Isaaru just make Auron a Fayth, a sort of semi-aeon, at the very least?
I'm just guessing here, although I'm sure to be wrong.
At the very least, I'd say Auron's little secret is out of the bag as far as Isaaru is concerned...
Not quite. Isaaru was just adapting the binding ritual to reverse the damage he did when he nearly sent Auron.
Remember what's happened in the last few chapters: -- Auron's lost hope and practically lost the will to go on, which is what turns unsents into fiends. -- He stayed awake for most of 3 days, partly because he was afraid of slipping away whie he slept. -- He got caught in Isaaru's sending ritual and started to dissolve into pyreflies, when Isaaru was sending Shuyin. -- What little of Auron was left fell 20 stories and crashed into the water at the bottom of the Via Purifico, where Lulu caught him.
Auron's soul is hanging onto his physical body by very tenuous threads. Isaaru was trying to bandage his spirit and help him hang on, adapting the same methods used to anchor a fayth in its statue.
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The complex conversation is well played -- easy to follow all the voices, and I think you did well at bringing all the players to the side that made the most sense for them. The comparison to Operation Mi'ihen is really apt as well.
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IMO it stands very well on its own and I loved reading it.
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Heh. I didn't mean I was going to copy Tolkien precisely. But I use Tolkien the way many writers use Shakespeare. They may not imitate a particular Shakespearean piece directly (e.g. West Side Story is a loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet), but they may have a particular Shakespearean theme or story in mind, with some references to it.
I had the Council loosely in mind, of course, but more the Last Debate chapter of ROTK.
In both of those there is a council/debate scene that is somewhat stylized and serves the additional function of providing an organized, dramatic format where one can have the whole "cast" come together without it being too confusing, thereby helping sum up the cast and story and all the complex plot threads before launching into a new chunk.
But there's one Tolkien theme in particular I've been playing with: the "fool's hope" of Gandalf.
I discovered two Elvish words for hope in Tolkien's lexicon. One is amdír, translated as "hope based on rational expectations, extrapolations". The roots of the word ( ... )
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I'm just guessing here, although I'm sure to be wrong.
At the very least, I'd say Auron's little secret is out of the bag as far as Isaaru is concerned...
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Remember what's happened in the last few chapters:
-- Auron's lost hope and practically lost the will to go on, which is what turns unsents into fiends.
-- He stayed awake for most of 3 days, partly because he was afraid of slipping away whie he slept.
-- He got caught in Isaaru's sending ritual and started to dissolve into pyreflies, when Isaaru was sending Shuyin.
-- What little of Auron was left fell 20 stories and crashed into the water at the bottom of the Via Purifico, where Lulu caught him.
Auron's soul is hanging onto his physical body by very tenuous threads. Isaaru was trying to bandage his spirit and help him hang on, adapting the same methods used to anchor a fayth in its statue.
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