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0:00.0 | Burnt Offerings |
0:03.8 | Did Mechane lie beneath the Shining City? |
0:10.0 | This was a question that flittered about the outer quarters, its wings, dipping and swooping between houses and markets. |
0:19.5 | All believed in Mechane. None could doubt, with their own eyes, |
0:24.9 | the gifts they had been given. The priests of the iron-smoke shrines proclaimed her word daily, |
0:32.9 | offering sacrifices rendered in copper and Fulad scraps to the throne's treasuries. |
0:40.3 | But was she there, and was she really beneath the earth? |
0:46.4 | There were those who began to form the beginnings of a new doctrine. |
0:51.4 | Had Mechane ever visited this world at all? |
0:55.9 | Was she truly formed of metal and iron? |
0:59.8 | Or was she a thing of spirit? |
1:02.6 | An ideal form to which they were striving for? |
1:07.0 | Was Fulad too impure? |
1:11.5 | The priest did not know what to do with these new ideas. |
1:16.7 | There were no formal doctrines concerning heresy. |
1:21.1 | There had never been a reason. |
1:24.0 | What need did they have to coerce their citizens when Mechain's gifts stood all around them? |
1:30.9 | Many did not want to do anything. |
1:34.6 | Their purpose was sacrifice and service, not theology. |
1:41.5 | That was for the academics and thinkers and their vast skyscrapers, and they had little true authority. |
1:50.2 | The church's power was the emperor who had more pressing concerns. |
1:56.6 | But others saw something else in this. |
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