Will Sin-eaters get the Voidsent treatment?

[Iscah]

I think it's possible to believe that Varuthy was both a victim of Emet-Selch's and his fathers machinations, and also a cruel, bullying sadist who ruled through fear and enjoyed throwing people off the balcony when they annoyed him.

Those are not really mutually exclusive ideas.

Prettymuch. You can point to the others as the reason he turned out to be exactly the monster he was, but there's no guarantee that his personality would be different in other circumstances. Running the system and keeping the citizens in oblivious rapture is one thing; throwing people off balconies or forcing them to cut their own arm with a knife is not a necessary part of the plan, and if anything runs the risk of shocking the more aware and decent citizens out of their delusion.

After the buildup of how frighteningly easy it was to be turned, the "time release tempering" by sin eater buns--for twenty years of Vauthry's rule--just struck me as really odd. No one showed signs like the Afflicted in Ahm Araeng when we visited Eulmore, but Ahm Araeng and Eulmore both were exposed to Sin Eaters. Would a citizen with a sweet tooth turn inside the city? Wouldn't people have eventually sickened like the Afflicted? It seems that would be a bad look for the man who promised safety from the sin eaters.

One of the more monstrous details that doesn't get dwelt on for very long but is really quite key to the whole system is ascension – that free and bonded citizens alike anticipate being chosen by the sin eaters to ascend to eternal paradise.

With a lie like that ensconced as truth, anyone beginning to turn or anyone beginning to suspect the truth can equally and conveniently vanish, and far from questioning their absence, the others would think it a good and happy thing.