Dilandu wrote:Well, let's think about something. Archangels should return after thousand years; why so much? If they were supposed to control the situation, the smaller time scale would be much more preferable to deal with situation.
My guess, is that the main goal of millenial return is to see who was right after all - would the religious matrix hold, or would it eventually crumble? And the results of Archangels return would probably depend of that data. If the Langhorne concept would proved itself unworkable under favorable conditions, and the system would started to change by itself, then there would be no point to try to hold it; in this case, the Archangels would probably just return to the original "Ark" plan with the millenia holding time.
So, the millenia scale was, probably, taken to give the Safehold time to develope by itself, and then see, would the doctrine hold or would it be overwhelmed by internal influence?
I find myself thinking that Nimue's influence would be recognized in Charis' spurt of development. Their first question is gonna be "who dunnit?" I am more pesimistic about events than the theme of this thread. Good guys win in the end, but the ride gets bumpy for a while...
Don