Kudos for points well taken.
Duchairn hasn't changed that much in that sense, however much his regained faith has restored his courage and sense of self.
Given how RFC can make characters develop and change, literally develop a new skin, we can't declare he has stopped progressing, but so far from what we've seen he still fervently believes in mother church.
Obviously Clyntahn doesn't know he's been reading Maikel's sermons and books, watching how he's changed the role of the CoC from the CoGA's previous overriding control; which he might use as a blueprint for any reforms he might be considering, but I don't think he's that much of a theologian, and as a planner I think he'd accentuate the negative as much as possible [ie gut almost everything], given the experience with the encroachments the inquisition, NTM the general systemic corruption have made upon the archangels' organization and intended purpose of the vicarate and church hierarchy.
Granted Nynian and or Merlin might end up explaining about the Gbabba etc to him on their trip to Zion, which will be very entertaining to read if it happens, but I think the odds of it happening are rather remote at the moment.
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Randomiser wrote:PeterZ wrote:
If given the chance, Archbishop Maikel will opt to persuade rather than compel. Overrunning the armies of an intransigent CoGA is unavoidable. Overrunning the armies of the CoGA seeking to negotiate is quite another thing.
Don't 'persuade' and 'compel' kind of run into one another when the persuasion is done at the end of a war the persuaders are about to convincingly win? And let's not kid ourselves that the other side will be considering negotiations until that is the case. Even Duchairn still thinks the CoGA's theological stance and position in society are right and God-ordained. He hates the war and many of the hierarchy's attitudes and actions, but he believes in the Church; it may have lost its way but hasn't lost its mandate to care for and guide all of God's children on Safehold.