Re: _Elantris_, Sanderson

In article <dcgqbk$d5j$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Also, the Intolerant Religious Hegemony from across the ocean has been
>gulping down neighboring countries

Just once, I'd like to see a Hegemonistic Tolerant Religion. The
God of Negotiated Relationships* goes Dingo after one war too many and
decides to spread the creed of Listening Carefully and Processing across
the world.

"Yes, your gods are real. So are the ones of the people you were
slaughtering before we took over. No, you can't do that anymore. No, they
are not allowed one free go to get even. Yes, you still hate each other
but your grandchildren won't. No, they won't hate us either: we have a
_lot_ of practice at this. It is why we are absorbing the world and you
are not. Yes, feel free to resist: it's a natural reaction, we won't get
angry and it never makes a difference in the long run anyway."

James Nicoll


* I guess that would be the God of Lawyers.





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