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Wracu and Chorae
Borque:
Astonishingly enough, nobody seems to have asked this yet, so here goes:
Why didn't the Consult equip their dragons with Chorae?
sciborg2:
And there it was - The Question of Questions.
Cû'jara-Cinmoi:
Mike mentioned this on TPB as the 'question of questions,' but I'm sure this in the books somewhere. Wracu find them painful, for reasons that are hotly contested. One interpretation involves the fact that it's not just places where atrocity wears thin the fabric of the onta. As Wutteat shows, it's beings as well. Wracu, some argue, are demonic in some respect.
Another interpretation turns on the way morality is intrinsic to the ontology of the World. If you look at Chorae as 'logic bombs' designed to obliterate violations of code, then you can chart antipathies to Chorae according to different kinds of violations. Thus the difference between Schoolmen and Cishaurim. Wracu are not simply Inchoroi abominations, they are Inchoroi abominations possessing souls. Like the Cishaurim, they do not so much violate the 'letter' as the 'spirit' of natural law. Chorae are 'ontological stressors' in the latter instance.
H:
--- Quote from: Cû'jara-Cinmoi on June 22, 2016, 01:11:19 pm ---Mike mentioned this on TPB as the 'question of questions,' but I'm sure this in the books somewhere. Wracu find them painful, for reasons that are hotly contested. One interpretation involves the fact that it's not just places where atrocity wears thin the fabric of the onta. As Wutteat shows, it's beings as well. Wracu, some argue, are demonic in some respect.
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I could have missed it, but I don't know that it is there as I have combed the books many times.
--- Quote from: Cû'jara-Cinmoi on June 22, 2016, 01:11:19 pm ---Another interpretation turns on the way morality is intrinsic to the ontology of the World. If you look at Chorae as 'logic bombs' designed to obliterate violations of code, then you can chart antipathies to Chorae according to different kinds of violations. Thus the difference between Schoolmen and Cishaurim. Wracu are not simply Inchoroi abominations, they are Inchoroi abominations possessing souls. Like the Cishaurim, they do not so much violate the 'letter' as the 'spirit' of natural law. Chorae are 'ontological stressors' in the latter instance.
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Whoa. That is a very dense paragraph. Will probably take me weeks to unpack.
Someone call in Locke.
MSJ:
--- Quote from: Cû'jara-Cinmoi on June 22, 2016, 01:11:19 pm ---One interpretation involves the fact that it's not just places where atrocity wears thin the fabric of the onta. As Wutteat shows, it's beings as well.
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I assume, that this could be applied to The Captain, as well?
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