[before I (accidentally this time) make Virmad spread misinformation in his meeting with Sasha and Sulen, I wanted to check in re what information "about as much as anyone who wasn’t involved in the heresy itself can about the Lanterners’ beliefs" (from Virmad's character write-up) would actually be.
I mentioned in the move-in thread back in, like, move 2 that Virmad has in his possession a small Lanterner icon pendant; I've been thinking about possible ways he could have come into possession of it — I think he probably got it from a Lanterner, which probably means he took it from someone he was interrogating and then just kept it instead of submitting it as evidence. maybe in the aftermath of Candle Arc? not a survivor, since there weren't any, but someone else who was captured in that part of the Glover March.
but he presumably had other sources — some of it was briefing info before the interrogation, some of it is stuff he cobbled together from Lanterner propaganda, some of it is from news reports and history documents, some of it is extrapolation from studies of whichever low culture the heresy originated in (I've been assuming that's where most heresies movements other than the Liozh heresy come from; if that's wrong, then ignore this). I wonder if maybe he met one or more crypto-Lanterners after the heresy was officially suppressed, too, since by that point he was already swinging away from calendrical orthodoxy.
I'll probably have more specific info requests later, but at the moment I guess I'm thinking, what would Virmad think would be useful as cultural context for a briefing with Sasha?]
info about the Lanterners - paging GM
I mentioned in the move-in thread back in, like, move 2 that Virmad has in his possession a small Lanterner icon pendant; I've been thinking about possible ways he could have come into possession of it — I think he probably got it from a Lanterner, which probably means he took it from someone he was interrogating and then just kept it instead of submitting it as evidence. maybe in the aftermath of Candle Arc? not a survivor, since there weren't any, but someone else who was captured in that part of the Glover March.
but he presumably had other sources — some of it was briefing info before the interrogation, some of it is stuff he cobbled together from Lanterner propaganda, some of it is from news reports and history documents, some of it is extrapolation from studies of whichever low culture the heresy originated in (I've been assuming that's where most heresies movements other than the Liozh heresy come from; if that's wrong, then ignore this). I wonder if maybe he met one or more crypto-Lanterners after the heresy was officially suppressed, too, since by that point he was already swinging away from calendrical orthodoxy.
I'll probably have more specific info requests later, but at the moment I guess I'm thinking, what would Virmad think would be useful as cultural context for a briefing with Sasha?]