Curiosity and an attraction to all things faeborn. Somehow that'd always slipped my radar before. Sounds like he's got more similarity to Tarrant than I'd realized. Also his intimation that he's attracted to Ciani less because of looks and more because of what's she's like is interesting--he's not shallow, or at least he has unusual priorities--but then, he's later attracted to the navigator (whose name I have just shamefully forgotten) because he appreciates her health and vitality. We never get a really good description of what she even looks like.
Yeah, I'm beginning to realize that Damien's got a slightly odd way of looking at the world. What he comments on and what he doesn't says a lot about him; it's just hard to notice because it's his eyes we're seeing everything through.
We never learn much about the West, where Damien's from. His reaction to Jaggonath always struck me as odd: does this mean there's much less to do with the fae in the West? But then isn't it odd that that's the branch of the Church that would give rise to sorcerers?
For that matter, if Damien is a member of an Order so old that Tarrant founded it, then why are there no members of the Order in Jaggonath? Or is it that there are, but they simply aren't sorcerers? (Did I jump to conclusions, assuming that the Order has gone hand-in-hand with sorcery for a long time? Or does Tarrant mention something to that effect later?)
His reaction to the cathedral struck me the strangest, though. He marvels at it. Is the One Church that much thinner on the ground in the West that they wouldn't have such centers of worship? Or are there simply fewer major population centers, where so many like-minded people would cluster together? In short, what is the West really like? It's the one place on Erna we don't see. Always seemed weird.
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Date: 2008-09-11 09:33 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm beginning to realize that Damien's got a slightly odd way of looking at the world. What he comments on and what he doesn't says a lot about him; it's just hard to notice because it's his eyes we're seeing everything through.
We never learn much about the West, where Damien's from. His reaction to Jaggonath always struck me as odd: does this mean there's much less to do with the fae in the West? But then isn't it odd that that's the branch of the Church that would give rise to sorcerers?
For that matter, if Damien is a member of an Order so old that Tarrant founded it, then why are there no members of the Order in Jaggonath? Or is it that there are, but they simply aren't sorcerers? (Did I jump to conclusions, assuming that the Order has gone hand-in-hand with sorcery for a long time? Or does Tarrant mention something to that effect later?)
His reaction to the cathedral struck me the strangest, though. He marvels at it. Is the One Church that much thinner on the ground in the West that they wouldn't have such centers of worship? Or are there simply fewer major population centers, where so many like-minded people would cluster together? In short, what is the West really like? It's the one place on Erna we don't see. Always seemed weird.