Re: finished still-nameless WIP

In article <47314119$0$19223$804603d3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dan Goodman <dsgood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mary K. Kuhner wrote:

Misa unexpectedly becomes the Sun Emperor, and the three (in
fact, four) daughters he fathered during an unfortunate dalliance
with the dark gods ten years ago

Is this literal? That is, were the mothers dark gods?

No, it's not literal. I hate to think what circumstances would
induce the Goddess of Death to bear a child, or what the resulting
child would be like. (Not alive, I think, just to start with--
theologically I don't think life is in her gift.) It's the sort
of thing that would not be impossible in this setting, but it's not
what happened here.

Misa plundered the shrine of one of the Dark Goddesses and
was seduced into eating something he shouldn't. He went back
home, moping over his bad behavior, and got stinking drunk
and spent the night on the town. Nine months or so later, his
sister made some discreet inquiries and brought him the bad
news.... (They missed the one who had shipped out of town the
next morning, to their cost.)

There were enough portents involved to make it clear that this
was not an accident. But it didn't seem like a crisis either--
until he became Emperor. Succession is not an issue--females
cannot be Emperor, and in any case succession is not strongly
hereditary. But the girls are now legally children of the Sun
God, and having children of the Sun God who are strongly tied
to the Dark is problematic.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@xxxxxxxxxx
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