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If Cish can see Souls via Third Sight, why couldn't they see skin spies...
sciborg2:
...by the absence of souls in their meat?
Basing this on a Bakker quote ->
--- Quote ---Regarding the Third Sight (which refers to the way Cishaurim see without seeing), the idea is that Psukari can actually see souls - those things invisible to the naked eye. Souls 'shine' to the degree they reflect the 'proportion of the God.' So the implication is that the Dunyain somehow reflect the proper proportion..
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Also, isn't it weird that despite the Dunyain reflecting a proper proportion of the God they are spiritually weak?
Madness:
I don't think there are necessarily contradictions within the text itself. We've never had a Cishaurim POV outside of battle and never with a Skin-Spy. Moenghus lets the reader, via Kellhus', assume that what Kellhus' says about vocal discrepancies is accurate. Fanayal is obsessed with being Kellhus' equal and there's never really a reason for Meppa, Psatma, or Fanayal to talk about the possibility of Skin-Spies or how the Cishaurim (remember they're Fanim Priests) actually found the Skin-Spies or how they reacted to their discovery. We do know from Aurang that the Consult couldn't keep Skin-Spies operating in Fanim territory. Likewise, the conversation between the Mutilated and Kellhus never even mentions the Psukhe as they are concerned strictly with the Metagnosis v. Tekne (Kellhus really has no reason to share that Meppa seemed to give him a better fight than Aurang did, nor that Kellhus left Meppa alive).
Just throwing data out there, as I've perceived it.
H:
--- Quote from: sciborg2 on May 10, 2021, 12:09:51 am ---Also, isn't it weird that despite the Dunyain reflecting a proper proportion of the God they are spiritually weak?
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I don't follow what "proportion of the God" is really supposed to mean. I just read that as a soul being the "portion" of the God that is tied to a given individual. Dunyain don't lack souls, they lack the manner of Spirit (read: Geist, as Mind) that reflects into itself in a manner we could notionally call "spirituality."
Their "religion" is rather the Logos, which chains them to a differential conception of self-consciousness and so a different sort of expression of mind (and the role it should play). One that leaves them far "superior" in conscious ability but weaker to the unconscious forces that are still at play. They are still fully "souled," still self-conscious, still portions of the God, where Tekne creations are not at all. Dunyain are fully continuous/contiguous with "natural" reality, where Tekne things are not.
sciborg2:
--- Quote from: H on May 11, 2021, 03:11:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: sciborg2 on May 10, 2021, 12:09:51 am ---Also, isn't it weird that despite the Dunyain reflecting a proper proportion of the God they are spiritually weak?
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I don't follow what "proportion of the God" is really supposed to mean. I just read that as a soul being the "portion" of the God that is tied to a given individual. Dunyain don't lack souls, they lack the manner of Spirit (read: Geist, as Mind) that reflects into itself in a manner we could notionally call "spirituality."
Their "religion" is rather the Logos, which chains them to a differential conception of self-consciousness and so a different sort of expression of mind (and the role it should play). One that leaves them far "superior" in conscious ability but weaker to the unconscious forces that are still at play. They are still fully "souled," still self-conscious, still portions of the God, where Tekne creations are not at all. Dunyain are fully continuous/contiguous with "natural" reality, where Tekne things are not.
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Do you agree with Madness that perhaps Big Moe just let Kellhus yammer on about discrepancies in voices while in truth the Cish easily rooted out the skin-spies?
I think in line with what you are saying here is that what the Cish see has, to them, always correlated with souls. They perhaps see souls as entities with passions, intellect, etc. And before they never had reason to doubt this correlation.
Perhaps it's also the case that because they felt they could still see "souls" in the skin-spies they insisted that these were not biological machinery but magical artifacts made by the Scarlet Spires?
H:
--- Quote from: sciborg2 on May 12, 2021, 06:20:51 am ---Do you agree with Madness that perhaps Big Moe just let Kellhus yammer on about discrepancies in voices while in truth the Cish easily rooted out the skin-spies?
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Well, even Kellhus temper's his conjecture there:
--- Quote ---Then, about twelve years ago, you discovered the first of the Consult skin-spies—probably through discrepancies in their voices.
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I don't think Kellhus really fully understands the Third Sight at this point (in fact, he might never really, since he couldn't ever experience it himself).
--- Quote from: sciborg2 on May 12, 2021, 06:20:51 am ---I think in line with what you are saying here is that what the Cish see has, to them, always correlated with souls. They perhaps see souls as entities with passions, intellect, etc. And before they never had reason to doubt this correlation.
Perhaps it's also the case that because they felt they could still see "souls" in the skin-spies they insisted that these were not biological machinery but magical artifacts made by the Scarlet Spires?
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Well, I think that the Cishaurim leadership likely already had "reason" to suspect or be worried about the Scarlet Spires. The only other group they'd likely suspect more would be the Imperial Saik and they likely had little reason to think they could pull off such a feat, simply because the Diamos is far more mysterious, in-world, as to what it might be able to do. Being so beyond what the "usual" Anagogis could do, they are likely right in worrying about if it could well pull a soul from something.
In the end, I suspect this actually is a slight plot hole, but one easily hand-waved away. It was the case that pre-"twelve years ago" the Consult rarely had reason to install skin-spies in Fanim lands, so there wasn't really much reason for concern by either party. When Moe arrives though, his curiosity and general thoroughness means removal reaches a fever pitch, raising things to a new level for both the Cishaurim and the Consult.
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