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sakon76During my drive in to work, my brain having little else to do, it started gnawing at the stuff I'd written last night. And I realized that Bastian's clan, the Inquisition Tel Amo, are in fact a significant political party across several of the nations in this universe. They're sorcerously powerful. And uniformly sociopathic. I need to figure out why for those last two. I'm having a suspicion that their patron deity is Justice.
This also means that what Alain is effectively trying to do is rescue Bastian from the fate of being one of his clan, and I don't know if that's something he can succeed at, because I don't know if the sociopathy is genetically inherent, environmentally learned, magically induced, or... simply arranged, in the "pruning the family tree" way. Or a combination thereof.
I need to go back to that scene tonight and separate Alain's views from his mother's, and play up his never-going-back-to-the-court views vs. what will eventually have to happen if he really wants to rescue Bastian.
This also means that what Alain is effectively trying to do is rescue Bastian from the fate of being one of his clan, and I don't know if that's something he can succeed at, because I don't know if the sociopathy is genetically inherent, environmentally learned, magically induced, or... simply arranged, in the "pruning the family tree" way. Or a combination thereof.
I need to go back to that scene tonight and separate Alain's views from his mother's, and play up his never-going-back-to-the-court views vs. what will eventually have to happen if he really wants to rescue Bastian.
