Oh man I love the idea that different Primes are important in different regions, even if Primus is recognised as the most important divinity, and that each citystate has their own interpretation of the mythos. I wonder how well that would work with functionism and the insistence that everything has a single use and a single form (and they kind of have to at least recognise the Thirteen has being divine by default because where else would they be deriving the divinity of Primacy in general?)
Then again -- I could see the Thirteen being sort of. Deprecated under functionism, reduced to just being "creations of Primus for the purpose of destroying Unicron", which would then nicely lead into talking about the War of the Primes as "what happens when you go outside of your function". Some Primes -- like Solus (engineering and creation), Amalgamous (transformation and shapeshifting) and Nexus (combination) -- are definitely figures that don't fit neatly into the power structures of the society. The narrative of the war of the Primes must have also gotten simplified quite a bit to get it to come out as "and so those who Followed Their Function survived and Megatronus and Liege Maximo were punished for their deviance :)"
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Date: 12/5/20 10:22 (UTC)Then again -- I could see the Thirteen being sort of. Deprecated under functionism, reduced to just being "creations of Primus for the purpose of destroying Unicron", which would then nicely lead into talking about the War of the Primes as "what happens when you go outside of your function". Some Primes -- like Solus (engineering and creation), Amalgamous (transformation and shapeshifting) and Nexus (combination) -- are definitely figures that don't fit neatly into the power structures of the society. The narrative of the war of the Primes must have also gotten simplified quite a bit to get it to come out as "and so those who Followed Their Function survived and Megatronus and Liege Maximo were punished for their deviance :)"