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EST's friend, Shining Censer, is chief priest at the Temple of the Undying Sun, the Mother Temple of the Old Religion. He has the ear of the archimandrite, and can get the archimandrite to declare a triumph. This will entail a parade, with the recipient of the triumph traveling from the Temple to the palace to be honored by the monarch and his or her grandees before all the people. By ancient custom, the name of the recipient is not revealed by the archimandrite until the recipient emerges from the Temple at dawn, so the identity will be secret from even the highest levels of government until there are too many ponies watching for the changlings to act against them clandestinely. There is one, small complication... you see, there's a reason for that custom... and a reason why we haven't had a Triumph since 3027 (308 years)... |
EST's friend, Shining Censer, is chief priest at the Temple of the Undying Sun, the Mother Temple of the Old Religion. He has the ear of the archimandrite, and can get the archimandrite to declare a triumph. This will entail a parade, with the recipient of the triumph traveling from the Temple to the palace to be honored by the monarch and his or her grandees before all the people. By ancient custom, the name of the recipient is not revealed by the archimandrite until the recipient emerges from the Temple at dawn, so the identity will be secret from even the highest levels of government until there are too many ponies watching for the changlings to act against them clandestinely.
There is one, small complication... you see, there's a reason for that custom... and a reason why we haven't had a Triumph since 3027 (308 years)...