The Wizard Knight Theology

James Wynn · 01 Jul 2010, 20:33 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:33:54 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Wizard Knight Theology
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> And what about/The Wizard Knight/?  The Aelf could be toys in the hands of evil humans if the humans realized it, just as humans sometimes are
> for Lothur.  (But then the whole non-Christian deism of TWK is strange.  Humans seem to be at the bottom instead of in the middle.)
>    

I think that was the point. Human degeneracy had caused them to be 
enslaved by their lowest instincts. Humanity ought to have been seeking 
to serve the ideals of Valfather and then Michael's and then discover 
the ideals that are even higher still.

Due to their enslavement to Arnthor (a dragon in disguise from a realm 
two levels lower), even  Aelfrice (representing lower instincts but 
higher than those that had enslaved humanity) was also enslaved by those 
instincts and hence rebelled -- because humans had relinquished the 
ideals necessary to hold the beings of Aelfrice in awe.

This is a picture of a man with his priorities upside down. TWK might 
well be viewed as the most moralistic novel Wolfe has ever written. The 
following is a key scene: Valfather bowing before Michael, as Michael 
tells Abel that to be a knight he must be able to command Disiri with 
the same authority.

u+16b9
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