Freakzilla wrote:If you'll recall when Lucilla and Burzmalli met Sirafa on Gamu for her HM disguise, Lucilla detected face dancer signs but wasn't sure. I think this was a NFD and Lucilla would have recognized the same tells in Logno.
Good points. But weren't the Face Dancers of the Scattering different is someway (I'll have to check) but I remember Bellonda questioning Otrade or, to be more precise, raising the possibility of unknown evolutionary forces at work in the Scattering. I have a feeling Scytale's insurance policy (having tampered with the Idaho gholas) has something to do with events after Chapterhouse. I also have the feeling that the Face Dancers of the Scattering have broken free of their Tlilaxu bonds (some joined the HM and others became the Enemy they are fleeing from, IMO only) and thus Scytale's increased prominance in the final books (especially with regards to Tlilaxu competition with the BG and the God Emporer's plans for humanity). It's interesting, to me at least, that Scytale regards the BG and even the Emperor (implicitly atleast) of perverting what they consider to be the true path of the Islamiyat. And didn't they have their own programme to rival Leto's Golden Path? And so there's almost a mirror imaging of the Tlilaxu/BG relations with that of the HM/Enemy even though both sets of dialectical pairs are opposed to one another (if you catch my drift). I have a feeling (yes, another one
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) that Scytale's trump cards have something to do with the Face Dancer's of the Scattering (whom I am assuming to be evolved Face Dancers. i.e., Marty). A lot of assumptions, I know, but I've been pent up for so long with unrequited computations it's unsurprising I'd shoot my load in one go!
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