Mystery of Ascia

Lee Berman · 24 Jan 2011, 20:52 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:52:39 -0500
Subject: (urth) Mystery of Ascia
Message-ID: <SNT123-W6025CAE26A959CF1D62AF9CFFD0 at phx.gbl>

>Son O'Witz: It's "Magical" reasoning, like blinding the Cock that Crows the sun.
> So, No Shadow = No Light.

>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes: I agree; the Ascians are the "people who live in darkness" despite
>living in the brightest sunlight of the Old Sun, which is the sun of
>darkness.

I don't have an objection to this interpretation. My main point is that if the shadowy,
jungle-dwelling, individualist sorcerers are against the coming of the New Sun, it may be that their 
opposites, the brightly-lit, field-dwelling, communistic Ascians and their bosses may
be for it.

Ah, probably not such an important point, anyway.

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