exigencelost:

A thing I find fun about Muir’s worldbuilding is how deeply intertwined “sacred” and “heretical” are. Like. Silas Octakiseron calls the lyctoral theorem some religious insult, desecration or sin or heresy or something, don’t remember, without pausing over the fact that this is literally sanctioned by his God as the path to sainthood. Harrow worships God and the beast she believes was made to kill God with a deeply interrelated fervor. God is worshipped first and foremost for resurrecting the solar system but resurrection is always referred to as a terrible sin, no matter who’s speaking. It’s all very “I am a dyke and I have not resolved my issues with the Christian church, pull up a chair.”