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On Matters of Race and the Elder Continent
MadifyMarley
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5/11/2015
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If the following information is a spoiler to anyone, I sincerely apologize.
A friend of mine just finished a Great Game storylet in which you can sketch a lady's tattoos. Once you do, you have several options of what to do, one of which is to sell her secrets to a "Barely-Disguised Diplomat from the Elder Continent". The art used for this option is a black man in a bowler hat, the same art used for the "Presbyterate Diplomat" Companion.
Why do you think these people from far off and mysterious shores are black? Do you think it's just a quirk of the art, or do you think their race may offer some clue to when the Elder Continent was settled, and who the settlers are?
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Bonchance
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5/26/2015
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CRACK THEORY TIME
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We've seen that celestial bodies (or perhaps just Bazaars?) have servitor races, directly correlated to their age and experience. The Bazaar has its completely coherent, and eminently powerful, Masters while the Flukes have their Rubbery Men (who gather experiences just like the Masters do, although they're much less picky; perhaps there is something in the growth process that requires tales other than love, perhaps the Bazaar is mad with its SPOILERSSPOILERSSPOILERS, who knows).
Who is to say the Mountain is not a celestial body in its own right (perhaps, even, the Earth itself?) with its very own servitor race: humanity. This could create a link between the Mountain and the Abrahamic God, perhaps (and it's not like their aren't correlations between YHWH and mountains anyways), AND creates a direct link: the Presbyterate is the abode of literal Angels, the progenitors of the human race itself.
edited by Bonchance on 5/26/2015
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Nigel Overstreet
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5/11/2015
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It could be an allusion to Prester John who ruled over a lost Christian Kingdom.
This was long reputed to be in Ethiopia, which might explain the hue of the Presbyterate.
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