Fading Suns Quiz

[ZeroJanvier]

I won't have my FS books with me until the end of the week so this question will be a "special one".
I'm not sure it can be easily answered, but let's try it !

2 questions in one :

The Prophet is not called Zebulon in the French translation of Fading Suns.
What is his name in French and why wasn't he called Zebulon ?

[Angelman]

Tristan Lahomme (author of some French FS material and lots of other RPG stuff) mentioned this to me once. I cannot remember exactly what the Prophet is called in French, but I think it is something starting with "Z"? Perhaps Zacharia or something?

The reason why he was renamed in the French version, as I understood it, was the "Zebulon" was the the name of some beloved character in French children's TV and that the French developers decided it would be too weird to have that being the name of the Prophet. (It might have been some sort of animal puppet character...). That is all I can remember

[ZeroJanvier]

That's it, congratulations !

The Prophet is called "Zacharie" in French.
Zebulon is this character from the children TV show "Le manège enchanté" :



Your turn, sir !
And congratulations again !

[Angelman]

That was blind luck If Tristan happens to be around, I award him the victory, although I wouldn't pressure him to come up with a question

QUESTION: Speaking of the Prophet; who was "The Sword of the Prophet"?

[ZeroJanvier]

Lextius ?

[Angelman]

Nope, it was none of the Prophet's deciples.

[Angelman]

Or.... if Lextius was also called that (which make sense, although I cannot remember it), that is not the "Sword of the Prophet" I'm looking for.

[ZeroJanvier]

I can't remember his first name but I think he was the Li-Halan leader who converted to Faith and totally changed the then-decadent Li-Halan house.

[Angelman]

Correct again. That was Prince Cardano Li Halan. Good job!

[ZeroJanvier]

I should avoid answering the questions this week, I'll have a hard time finding interesting questions without my books.

So, an easy question :
How many vote Scepters are there in the Known Worlds ? (excluding the lost ones)