Thread:Blue Sky/@comment-77.194.10.134-20120222224715/@comment-77.194.10.134-20120223194732

First, my concern is the page about the old religion. Where the author gets that the old religion has been largely replaced by the monotheistic new religion ? The following sentence of the page is absurd : it cannot be Merlin's destiny to insure the old religion exists alongside the new one, since, by definition, it is the destiny of a monotheistic religion to eradicate a polytheistic one (what is, for sure, the old religion). Someone has to fix this page, but I guess the author was blinded by his knowledge of the legend, as, no matter the version, the story of Arthur, in a way or another, always tells the rise of the christianity at the expense of the magical practices. This point leads me to my second subject, the lack of religion in Camelot. It's quite unusual, because the history of men shows that nobody can simply take away the belief of people without replace it by another. As naive as he can be sometime, Uther is not completly stupid. In "The Mark of Nimueh", he said that he needs Gaius to find a cure, because if Camelot cannot control the plague spreading over the kingdom, people will turn to magic for a cure. He knows that he needs a strategy to prevent the slightest sign of people returning to magic. In my opinion, that strategy leans on three pillars : the law, the knighthood and the science to bring to Camelot what the people need :  peace, stability, security and hope. The page wasn't finished, it's why I withdraw it, and you're probably right, I'd rather named it "politic of Camelot". It's quite interesting, as unlike we use to think, Uther is not that an old school king. Then, I will publish it when it's complete.