1) Signifier shifts happen occasionally through early adulthood (around mid-twenties). Bio/psych people feel free to correct me but basically the brain is still maturing through that time, at least according to the Adolescent Development course I had to take for teacher ed forever ago. They're not terribly common after that, especially radical shifts, although not unknown either. For example, if you saw a personality shift due to trauma or dementia, that could be a thing, but the later hexarchate also has better medicine available, so...
2) Official Shuos uniforms are blood red, more or less military in style, with gold trim. In the field, when actually at work, Shuos assassins are generally avoid being caught in actual uniforms at all costs and wear sensible things to fit in.
3) The only reasons the Shuos didn't take an even more massive prestige hit (and the one they took was pretty big regardless) were: a) Heptarch Khiaz essentially kicked Jedao out and gave him to the Kel as fish food (hawk food?) pretty much at the first opportunity, which was considered a pretty big deal, and b) Khiaz, while one of the more despicable people in the heptarchate, was a really top-notch propagandist and she PR'd her heart out.
4) I'm going to defer answering this question on the grounds that it is a possible story for the hexarchate collection. (It might or might not happen. I make no promises.)
Thank you for answering! 3) That explains the slightly fixed way people always talk about Jedao (including himself) and 4) !!!!! it would be really cool to see any of them on page again, but I can already imagine Brezan's profound annoyance at dealing with more foxes.
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Date: 2017-07-10 03:25 am (UTC)2) Official Shuos uniforms are blood red, more or less military in style, with gold trim. In the field, when actually at work, Shuos assassins are generally avoid being caught in actual uniforms at all costs and wear sensible things to fit in.
3) The only reasons the Shuos didn't take an even more massive prestige hit (and the one they took was pretty big regardless) were: a) Heptarch Khiaz essentially kicked Jedao out and gave him to the Kel as fish food (hawk food?) pretty much at the first opportunity, which was considered a pretty big deal, and b) Khiaz, while one of the more despicable people in the heptarchate, was a really top-notch propagandist and she PR'd her heart out.
4) I'm going to defer answering this question on the grounds that it is a possible story for the hexarchate collection. (It might or might not happen. I make no promises.)
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Date: 2017-07-10 04:32 pm (UTC)