004 | A Conversation on Masks, Playing God, and Striving for Enlightenment

What’s with the masks? In this episode, we talk about their deeper meaning—how they’re used across cultures to signal fear, power, and identity, and how that symbolism carries into the story. In the world of the book, masks aren’t just props. They mark social roles, spiritual status, and lineage, shaping how characters are seen—and how they see themselves.

We also get into the larger structure behind the story: rebirth, karma, and the slow progression of characters over time. Their choices matter, across lifetimes. Patterns repeat. Some characters rise. Some fall. But all of them change.

There’s a thread about meditation too—not the modern kind, but what happens when you live without distraction. That quiet shapes the characters’ mental and emotional development, grounding their arcs across generations.

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