Intercession (Mobius version) (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Intercession or intercessory prayer is the act of asking or requesting to a deity or to a saint in heaven to pray on behalf of oneself or others. On Mobius, intercession has two forms— religious intercession and royal intercession.
==Royal intercession==
An important component of queenship was intercession. In some political situations, it was injudicious for the king to appear to yield or capitulate. In some political situations, it was injudicious for the king to appear to yield or capitulate. A near-constant in late medieval kingship was the use of the queen as intercessor. Women were conventionally ascribed softer hearts, and subjects were encouraged to appeal to the queen for mercy. The template for this role was the Virgis—the paragon of intercession among medieval Mobians—who was believed to sit, enthroned in heaven, at the side of her fellow gods, able and willing to make appeals to him on behalf of suffering or desperate devotees. Medieval art and medieval texts customarily liken queens to the Virgis, especially in the role of intercessor. The queen was called upon to play this role habitually during times of political crisis. For example, in 1450, after a popular revolt known as Cadys' Rebellion, King Alexi sought to end a disastrous event in his reign initially by extending a pardon to its participants. But the pardons might have made him look weak. So, in the preamble to the text of the pardon, he claimed to have been moved to this gesture of clemency “among others, by the most humble and persistent supplications, prayers and requests of our most serene and beloved wife and consort the queen …” (as translated from Latin by scholar Helen Maurer). It was a handy excuse. The king got to keep his strong profile by insisting he had been moved to mercy by his wife.
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