Jerri
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
What is the difference between a petty saint and a regular saint in the 5 gods universe? I am thinking especially of the petty saint of the Father, a Sargent in Assassins of Thallion and the "full" saint of the Bastard, Dubro.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Not really a difference in kind, but a difference in size. Rather like seeing sunlight through a pinhole in tent versus a large window, or, in the best case, a large doorway. Iroki (not Dubro, he was the sorcerer) got, or more accurately was, a large window. Cazaril was a doorway, eventually, though he had to grow into it.
Most petty saints get a pinhole or maybe a thumb hole at most. The aperture depends on the character of the person, not of the gods who are everywhere and always the same, and too vast for any one person's perceptions, no matter how wide, to take in entire.
Ta, L.
Not really a difference in kind, but a difference in size. Rather like seeing sunlight through a pinhole in tent versus a large window, or, in the best case, a large doorway. Iroki (not Dubro, he was the sorcerer) got, or more accurately was, a large window. Cazaril was a doorway, eventually, though he had to grow into it.
Most petty saints get a pinhole or maybe a thumb hole at most. The aperture depends on the character of the person, not of the gods who are everywhere and always the same, and too vast for any one person's perceptions, no matter how wide, to take in entire.
Ta, L.
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