PeterZ wrote: Let's see now....
Khody was a womanizer and also had a reputation for enjoying earthy pleasures. Somewhere someone charactertized him as a "marine on shore leave". Furthermore, he obviously had access to technology or he wouldn't have been called a seijin. Nynian called him a saint and a seijin. That means he was at most an Adam. Yet he speaks spanish.
It strikes me that either Khody was reeducated or he was a low level crew member that was never reprogrammed. I am leaning towards the latter. He followed orders about he needed to do regarding the succession wars (War of the Fallen), but he never enmbraced Bedard's religion. He behaved in ways that was inconsistent with the moral teachings of the CoG and later CoGA. That alone would have earned him banishment from the church's list of approved saints. He was after all NOT an adherent of the CoG and CoGA teachings.
So this marine private makes a name for himself by following orders given to him by his superiors. Those superiors need his skill after Commodore Pei's pocket nuke gutted a goodly chunk of the crew. Problem was that this private never truly embraced actually living as Bedard's religion would have him live. Given his proclivities, he likely worked with a largely female team. That team likely became the core of Nynian's Sisterhood. Since the CoG and CoGA never really emphasized sexual abstinance, Khody's and perhaps later the Sisterhood's acceptance of free sexual expression was viewed more as slightly odd than anathema. That oddity became less acceptable after the war was won. This explains why his name was removed from the list of saints.
If Khody was part of the colony's crew, he would have been long lived. That means he would have been able to train generations of team members during the War of the Fallen. The training program could have been institutionalized well before his death and might well have continued in the form of a pseudo-religious order that became a truly religious one in time.
Nynian's sisterhood then was born in war and tempered by centuries of hiding from the intolerant attention of the Inquisition. Its guiding principles are those from someone who isn't blinded by a doctrine that is onconsistent with reality. The Writ's description of physics are as far removed from reality as anything on Safehold. Such a group as hers cannot be blind to reality or it would have been discovered ages ago. So, Nynian's group is likely one of the handful of organizations that have been trained to first assume nothing and then begin to think through problems.
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I may be wrong, but it seems to me that RFC mentionned once or twice that Nynian was not part of a group that had been created BY Khody.
Taking that into account, I would think that the sorority was created by people who knew Khody, but that he had nothing (ar at best only a few things) to do with it's creation. It then seems doubtful that any training program that the sorrority may have or had may have been initiated by Khody.
rom what we know of him, it is not even sure that he may have needed the support of a group made of only safeholdians, especially if he had the backing of the surviving crew members (which he may have had, if he was careful and kept his disillusions for himself).
I'm not saying taht he did not had any contact among the "native" safeholdians, just that we have no evidence that he had something like that (we have no evidence of the opposite either).
