evilauthor wrote:I seriously doubt that a pre-WotF version of the Writ would be ground shattering to anyone but academics. After all, the modern version of the Writ couldn't logically exist prior to "Shan-Wei's rebellion".
But its discovery (or recreation) would be just a bit more chipping away at the religion's edifice as people compare versions and debate the changes made in the modern one.
And if Duchairne really did open up the Church's secret records, a pre-Fall Writ would likely be just one more exposed lie in entire mountain of similar lies that everyone had assumed was true.
Remember that there's already textev of the modern Church prior to the current war insisting that modern Church doctrine had ALWAYS been doctrine despite at least the upper ranks of the priesthood knowing otherwise. No doubt, legions of scholars are going to go through those secret histories just to figure out and explain to everyone how the Church could have become so corrupt as to place Clyntahn in charge.
In response to the last sentence here, the corruption is inevitable when there is no accountability, no one to whom the leadership has to answer. Corruption runs rampant any time you have cronyism which develops when one group retains power over an extended period of time. It is as inevitable as sunrise.
Don
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