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The Masters and Love
John Vazquez
Posts: 108
2/28/2014
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Recent events and discoveries have made me think of what is the exact nature of the relationship between the Masters and Love.
I have the foolish tendency to forget to echo the stories, so I might be inaccurate in some of my quotes and ideas.
From Lilac we know that the Masters encourage Love, and want potential lovers to meet. Hence, the Feast of the Exceptional Rose being the most important celebration of the Fifth City.
From the Featuring in the Tales of the University, we learn than the Masters "feed" on Love. But if we have to learn something from what happened to the Duchess and her lover, theirs was not a lucky fate.
A bit more ambiguous is the situation between the Manager and the King. But there is similarities between this couple and the previous one: one of them is a "monster", the other one is "trapped in grief and madness".
I have not personally collected any information about the fate of rulers of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Cities, but rumour says that the Traitor Empress consort is nowhere to be seen around the Shuttered Palace (why is it shuttered?), and I have heard rumour that the Widow might be the Khan’s Window (letting the Kang in a bad position).
So it seems clear to me, that at some point the Masters used the love that rulers of the Fallen Cities fell to trick them into selling their cities to the Bazaar. They were obviously shortchanged, and their love stories ended tragically nonetheless.
But what about other, more ordinary, love stories? The ones of people who meet at the Feast, for example? Does the Bazaar also feed on them, eventually, and that is the reason they encourage them? And if so, what happens to the lovers when the Masters “feed” on their love? Or are they encouraged as a sort of penance, so the Masters can repay some sort of “cosmic karma wheel” for the pain they caused when betraying the rulers of the Fallen Cities?
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MaskedGentleman
Posts: 339
2/28/2014
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[spoiler]The Bazaar's skin is not marked lightly. I believe that Fires isn't so much bribing the Bazaar as it is ruining potential meals. By manipulating the couple it makes their love less genuine, which in turn means that the Bazaar cannot use it. Spices tried to use Jack to inspire fear, and in turn passion. But because he tried to make it, the Bazaar could not use it. I suspect Fires is using this technique to prevent Wines and Spices to gather love stories. I suspect the Bazaar cannot leave London until it has enough, or does not want to leave London until it has enough. [/spoiler]
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Snowskeeper
Posts: 575
2/28/2014
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[spoiler]There has been some speculation about whether Mr. Fires is going down a path similar to Mr. Eaten's. If that's the case, he might be trying to pacify the Bazaar while he figures out a way to keep London without ending up down the well. Note that in the Chilly destiny, Fires is the only definitely unique Master not mentioned by name.[/spoiler]
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S.F., a midnight midnighter and invisible eminence. Impossible to locate them, personally, but there are dead drops and agents.
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theodor_gylden
Posts: 117
2/28/2014
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I am rather curious about the Affair of the Box, and what it means for the Masters' duties in collecting tales of love and the Bazaar's particular hungers.
[spoiler]For one, we learn that Mr Fires is quite comfortable in the Fifth City, and its agents interfere in tales of love. But it does not, as you expect, have them interfere to foil love affairs or bring about their end -- at least not on the occasion we see. They interfere to reunite a quarreling company and keep them happy. What does this mean? Is Mr Fires sating the Bazaar with a happy ending? Or is it stoking the Bazaar's hunger by denying it a tale of heartbreak? Further investigates shows that Mr Wines and Mr Spices are the Masters who do most of the work with love stories, and they rather resent the meddling of Mr Fires.[/spoiler]
On that note, it seems the Bazaar itself has suffered a (shall we say) star-crossed love. I've been collecting hints of it here (with thanks to Spacemarine9 for transferring the information): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cGW_DIV7XJA1YJ9DjRa7Vh39w_bTAHQh93jCyX1M4cY/edit?usp=sharing
edited by theodor_gylden on 2/28/2014
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