Session 20220407 Report
General Summary
Marsday 17th Resplendent Wood, Calendar
Marag-ang attends his first committee meeting, on whether images of the Golden Lord (already frowned upon) should become completely banned. Of the five other members three are members of the Orthodox faction and think the status quo should remain, and two are Heterodox and want to implement the ban, but more out of a desire to resist the orthodox. Marag quietly convinces the heterodox that images of the Golden Lord are more in line with their beliefs (with some double-talk even he doesn't really follow), in an attempt to move the three orthodox monks closer to the heterodox position. Spends most of the day questioning them all to determine why they are anti-solar, determines there are two main reasons (with 2 invokes on the aspect):
- Political - staying within the strictures of the Immaculate Order
- Genuine belief in the stories they have been told about the Anathema
- The Heterodox specifically want to remain anti-solar because now that the Heretic faction of monks has been created by Marag they have a better chance of coming out of this conclave with their beliefs about the Unconquered Sun accepted as the majority focus on the rebels pro solar focus
Mathias Stormcrow re-enters the palace, talking to the doorman and then some members of the garrison, and seeks the library. Along the way does not see any new secret doors, and trying to hint to the Islanders that secret doors could be used by the Prince to sneak in a mistress gets hushed and told that is not a topic to be heard discussing. He determines the garrison probably do not know about any specific secret doors, and are not well liked by the other inhabitants. Currently the Prince's oldest daughter, the unmarried Midnight Pearl is running the palace and her favour is more important than his. In the library he looks for old maps and information about the Pale Mistress, determining that while gods do not need worshippers it does provide them power but they can also draw power from their portfolio (what are they the god of, they can be fired from these and possibly the Golden Lord can do so as chief god of An-Teng but possibly not as he is still a Terrestrial god. Propitiating the Pale Mistress to stay away still counts as worship for these purposes, and possibly some ninja clans secretly worship her. He (correctly) believes that his old clan might be one of these.