#Canon

Canon law is humanity’s quarrel-settler under the guise of divine mandate. Behind its austere statutes lurks the convenience of bishops and popes. It prioritizes institutional preservation over saving souls, crafting an unbreakable framework. Sometimes it collects fines in the name of pardon, other times ensnares daily life in nets of precepts. Straddling the sacred and the mundane, it scripts a human drama of absolute power from which no one may flee.

Canonical criticism is the art of dragging holy scriptures from dusty shelves and dissecting the layers of tradition down to their marrow. Stories meant to nourish faith are reconstructed as scribal blunders and power plays. Why, the devout believer never doubts that their version of the text is the "true" one, but canonical criticism shatters that illusion without mercy. Decades of revered authority can collapse over a single miscopy. The scholar peers beneath the mask of sanctity to survey the swirling human desires and biases.

The 'official setting' of a work is the final form of puzzle laid by creators to control their fans. Under the guise of legitimacy, it seals new questions and binds imagination with a magical curse of minimum creativity. It functions as an all-powerful trump card, the invincible phrase 'According to the official setting...' that quashes any fan speculation. It shackles the freedom and diversity of the fictional world, and the true fan takes secret delight in the small rebellions born from its cracks.