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	- '''[[Lemya]]''' - Raised within the teaching from childhood; it constitutes an inherited moral framework she must contend with in her present circumstances, functioning as the internal language through which obligation and hopelessness are formulated rather than a doctrine she is shown practising or preaching. - City of Last Chances, ch 45.		* '''[[Lemya]]''' - Raised within the teaching from childhood; it constitutes an inherited moral framework she must contend with in her present circumstances, functioning as the internal language through which obligation and hopelessness are formulated rather than a doctrine she is shown practising or preaching. - City of Last Chances, ch 45.

	== Notable Quotes ==		== Notable Quotes ==

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Mahanic teaching is a religious doctrine that appears in the City of Last Chances as the moral and spiritual framework within which [[Lemya]] was raised. It defines the human condition through the image of a curse: those who bear a curse possess no external source of salvation, and the only path away from a compound finality of death and spiritual condemnation is for the cursed individual to lift the curse through their own effort. Its formulation - a single line reproduced by the narrator - presents hope as structurally absent for the cursed and positions self-reliance under spiritual duress as the sole surviving obligation.

The teaching's narrative function is confined to a brief passage in which Lemya's upbringing within it is invoked to frame her present moral situation. The text does not elaborate the doctrine's institutional structure, its clergy, its geographic reach, or the wider body of tenets from which the quoted line is drawn; what survives on the page is a compact theology of self-redemption under curse, deployed as the inherited grammar through which Lemya must parse her own circumstances. Its significance to the series lies in this narrow, pointed use: a belief system introduced not as world-building but as the specific moral inheritance a character is trying to think or live beyond.

== The Practice ==
=== What It Is ===
Mahanic teaching posits the existence of a state called "being cursed," in which the afflicted person is stripped of all external sources of salvation. The doctrine's operative line - "The cursed were without hope. They must lift it or perish and be damned." - establishes three linked propositions: that the cursed exist, that no other agent can remove the curse on their behalf, and that the sole alternative to self-lifting is a compound finality in which physical death and spiritual condemnation are bound together with no intermediate state. - City of Last Chances, ch 45. The phrasing leaves no room for grace received, for mediation, or for a lesser punishment; the moral obligation is absolute and internal. Beyond this formulation, the text does not set out further tenets, rituals, cosmological claims, or clerical roles belonging to the teaching. - City of Last Chances, ch 45.

=== Who Holds It ===
The only holder named is [[Lemya]], who was raised within the doctrine. Its transmission is described in terms of upbringing - an inherited moral framework received in childhood rather than adopted in adulthood - though the text does not specify a community, congregation, school, or lineage of teachers through which it passes. - City of Last Chances, ch 45. No clergy, institutional body, or wider body of adherents is identified; the teaching is presented solely as a personal inheritance Lemya carries and must contend with. - City of Last Chances, ch 45.

== History ==
=== City of Last Chances ===
[[Mahanic teaching]] is a religious doctrine with which [[Lemya]] was raised, one that frames moral obligation through the language of a curse: "The cursed were without hope. They must lift it or perish and be damned." - ch 45. The doctrine, as the narrator reproduces it, posits that a state of being cursed exists, that those in that state have no external source of salvation, and that the sole path to avoiding damnation is for the cursed individual to raise the curse themselves - to "lift it" - rather than to receive absolution from another. The phrasing "perish and be damned" presents the alternative as a compound finality, death and spiritual condemnation bound together, leaving no intermediate state. [[Lemya]]'s upbringing within this teaching is noted in the context of her own situation; the doctrine functions as an inherited moral framework she must contend with, though the text does not elaborate on its institutional structure, its clergy, or the wider body of tenets from which this single line is drawn.

== Relationships ==
- '''[[Lemya]]''' - Raised within the teaching from childhood; it constitutes an inherited moral framework she must contend with in her present circumstances, functioning as the internal language through which obligation and hopelessness are formulated rather than a doctrine she is shown practising or preaching. - City of Last Chances, ch 45.

== Notable Quotes ==
:"The cursed were without hope. They must lift it or perish and be damned." - Mahanic teaching, City of Last Chances, ch 45

== Tags ==
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