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Originally Posted by Alia I still don't see the connection between Radegundis and the Lady of Battles, yes I realize they are both saints... do you think that the saints all work together?
Moral Code... The arguement that snotty Tallia states is that the Diasan died for thier sins, much like christian beliefs. The church doesn't belive this at the moment. They had a counsel and decided against this. But there is a scroll that mentions it, Angus the frater mentioned in KD. If Alain is to be the new Diasan then what is he going to save the people from? Surely not their sins... The first Diasan did this...
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I think what we're all forgetting here is that while the religion that Kate Elliot has created here mirrors Christianity in many ways, they are not one and the same. There is a possibility that in this religion the saints all work together (honestly, I don't think they'd work against each other- kind of counter-productive). There is also a possibility that the Blessed Daisan would not have to die only once for the sins of man. Who knows- maybe he/she would have to die once for man, once for Eika, once for Aoi, etc. etc. Perhaps that is what the Daisan is destined for- constant death and rebirth, constant sacrifice for sake of continually saving the weaker souls from themselves.
In addition, I believe it was mentioned somewhere in the 5th book (sorry don't have it with me right now, Alia, but I believe it is one of the voices that Alain hears) that Alain is there to save them all from something evil that is coming. What I gathered from that was that a sort of Anti-Christ was in the process of being created or had already been created, and he was there to stop it. I believe Tallia was somehow involved as well.
But beyond the classic "saving us from our sins" theme, there is also the fact that Alain has been instrumental in changing history, in so many ways. Perhaps he is simply there to ensure that certain events happen a certain way, like the Fool and Fitz in the Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb. His role could be less akin to that of Christ than we think- it could have an element of the Grecian Myth in it as well, as simply the chosen one/tool of the Gods.