PeterZ wrote:I would add, Bluesqueak, that what the SSK has told the IC about their motives seems incomplete. There has to be more that drives them besides knowing Khody was defamed by the CoGA. That an archangel LIED about essential truths in the Writ. This last was just alluded to, but that has the potential to be devastating to Safehold. If archangels believed to not have fallen can lie, the how valid is the Writ?
That sort of conclusion is a big step away from being a caretaker for a defamed fallen hero. Yet that is much more consistent with what the SSK has become now.
Yes, I think the sleight of hand that stops the reader spotting that is that the Sisterhood believe in God and the Proscriptions. But then, so did the Wysynns, and they seem to have been Schueler's arrow.
So now I'm wondering if RFC has done a mirror image and both Shan Wei and Schueler had two arrows to their bow. After all they'd gone through, they'd be really keen on back ups for the back ups. The Wysynns to try and keep the Church and Inqiuisition on track. That would be why Nynian 'came out of hiding' to support them - and need-to-know meant she gave Merlin a 'cover story' to explain it. It wasn't a personal decision at all; it's the mission plan for the Sisterhood.
The job of the Sisterhood is to be the sword that will destroy ... at least the Inqiuisition, if they become the horror they did become. And once the Inquisition is destroyed, to follow instructions that will reveal Schueler's New Testament?
Hmmm...