Comments on: BY HERESIES DISTRESSED — Snippet 47

By: robert

robert — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:09:21 +0000

@24 If the sequence (OAR 2007, BSRA 2008, BHD 2009) holds, then around Spring/Summer 2010, or just after this appears in paperback. But you mean that the series doesn’t end with this book? Who would have thought?

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:48:15 +0000

Well, my library had a copy, and I picked it up and read it. Good book. When’s the next one coming out?

By: E

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:48:14 +0000

Don’t spoil it for us

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:34:17 +0000

I saw the book in Borders today and picked up a copy.

By: Ed T.

Ed T. — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:25:08 +0000

Sorry, I meant Rayno and Clytahn both loath the Wylsynns.

By: Ed T.

Ed T. — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:08:07 +0000

Thinking of the reference to “dog and dragon show” I suspect this tribunal relates to Trynair’s after-death trial of the 16 priests who led the massacre in the port. Also remember Clyntahn’s sinister hint that the ranks of the opposition might get cropped. Wyllym Rayno, the Adjutant of the Order of Schueler, loathes the Wylsynns as well as Clyntahn.

Going out on a limb Rhobair Duchairn may finally have to choose sides.

By: E

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:46:53 +0000

“Surely an internal threat to the Church is just as deadly as an external one?”

He’s questioning whether or not his key can be used on internal threats. That indicates that he either doesn’t know what it opens or that if he does know that it’s something that can help against people like Clyntahn. To me that says angel in suspended animation, because access to authority would be what Wylsyn and the Circle would need to move swiftly and not be challenged.

By: Drak Bibliophile

Drak Bibliophile — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:59:51 +0000

On the Wylsynns,

First, KenJ is likely to be correct about their power. While powerful within the Church, they are ‘out-numbered’ by the corrupt families.

While they may have some ‘black sheep’, because of their reputation they must have done a good job of dealing with them.

I suspect that the Wylsynn’s reputation is built on two factors.

First, they may have more members of their family who are *not* clergy than other ‘Church Families’. So a young Wylsynn may have other paths that he could take than becoming a member of the clergy. Thus those who join the clergy are more likely to have a true calling to serve than members of the other church families.

Second, while I doubt that the Wylsynn family uses mind control gadgets on their members, they may have additional truth reading devices available. They may thus can know if one of them has a true calling and more easily prove that one of them has become a ‘black sheep’.

By: KenJ

KenJ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:37:07 +0000

@6 I can’t say that the Wylsynn’s have been hurt power-wise by being decent and moral. After all, they have had several Grand Vicar’s in the family and have always been a strong and powerful member of the church “nobility”. They just haven’t had enough power to make reforms stick due to the corruption of others in the church hierarchy. And I’m sure they have had their own “black sheep” in their family as well.

By: JN

JN — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:57:42 +0000

As is noted, keys must locks to be significant. The problem is that so many things are locked down, or up. In the larger context, the answer is almost certainly some form of technology. It must also be something which carries dire cautions concerning its use. Considering Wylsyn’s placement in the Church, some form of AI accesswould be my guess.