(urth) some mysterious stuff in Long sun

[Andrew Mason]

>> Does he know the motivations of the monarch? Could people easily be
>> made to forget their personal lives, but not the monarch and his
>> family? I would think that Typhon wanted to be a God, on the one hand
>> just to aggrandise himself, on the other to satsify people's religious
>> instincts - which would otherwise be directed towards the Outsider. I
>> see Lemur as missing the point.
>
> Once again, I think this ascribes to Vanity was is overtly described as
> a practical decision.

Not just vanity - it gave Typhon authority, motivating people to carry
out his Plan,  and took away the threat of an alternative source of
authority, in a religion focused on the Increate. Lemur can be seen as
not getting it because the Increate/Outsider has been so throughly
obscured.