Expert snuggler wrote:How about this?
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the micro-SNARCs have, or can be made with, tiny speakers. Then Duchairn could hear voices. The voices could build credibility by telling him things like next week's weather that could not have come from any known source. They could tell him nice reassuring things about how God values Duchairn's charity work.
Then, once he trusts the voices, one of them could say "All you have to do is manipulate Clyntahn into taking a field command or simply going out into the city, and God will take him home".
Next best thing to having an agent in the Temple.
That would be nice... also, kind of creepy for Duchairn, I guess, but generally it would probably work. The problem, however, is that Melin wants to break the hold the CoGA has over Safehold. Having one of chief "commanders" of the Church suddenly start hearing "God's" voice won't help in that.
There's also the fact that Merlin has thrown the "posing as a divine messanger" option out of the window almost the moment he came up with it.
Which could also be done, using blackmail from SNARCs or sex workers to coerce someone into following orders from the Charis secret service. Basic spycraft and doesn't expose high tech to the Temple building sensors.
This one seems to have greater chances of success, even though I can't see Merlin engage in non-James Bond-esque spycraft. Someone call Aivah, perhaps?
Generally, I'd love to see some kind of espionage plot in HFQ. It was nice when Irys and Daivyn had to be whisked out, and here it could turn out even better.
