Nice stories folks.
Best Writing Technique: I'm going with Sinitrena here by a razor thin margin. Excellent use of imagery (shadows that had danced before in mirrors and nooks now went to sleep in the darkness; ...the breeze in the storm of her mind) is sometimes marred by unimaginative excess (...the blood running through her veins could outpace a cheetah). There were numerous typos and preposition swaps: the the threads, doubts sat in, sat to the feet, passed the staged, through towards her....). But this is tempered by a strong story design with a cynical beginning, followed by revelation, followed by the ultimate revelation in the awesome twist ending. Reiter's story also had some powerful phrases, especially based on strong choice of words: ...curtain have (sic) fallen on what was free, wild, hideous and beautiful; forth came the Rainbow hosts, beautiful and nebulous and resplendent. But his (her?) story suffered from a density of content that made especially the first half extremely difficult to decipher. I take a bit of liberty mashing some terms together, but if the Fallen Wyrm had only protected against the Deplorable Signs on the Oak of Agonies, couldn't he Alpha-All-Father then Sing-Shape the Egg Beyond Time into a Radiant Risen Omega World-Mother on the Bridge-Beyond-Bridges with a smidge of Prismatic Grace upon the Limitless Keystone?
However, given that real religious texts come across as just as baffling without careful parsing, and given that that section of the story was identified as a sedition against progress religious text by the Containment Bureau, I suppose the confusing way that the Emissary of the Endless Moth conveyed his message was justified. Yet, this is a story competition, and that was a bit of a hard slog in places, so point goes to Sinitrena. 
Best Character(s): My vote again goes to Sinitrena, by default since Reiter's story lacked any kind of character development. This is not to diminish the powerful arc of character development in Sinitrena's work: Harusech's faith journey is quite ambitious and well-executed, and the layers of Ktosep's character is impressive given the brevity of his part in the story.
Best Revelation: This category is truly agonising to decide. I thought Sinitrena's revelation of the revelation was brilliant and powerful, but I also was impressed by the infinite complexity of the divine as expressed by Reiter. I think in the end I'm going to have to (by a hair) vote for Sinitrena, simply because she clearly communicated a nuanced and layered revelation in a clever but heartbreaking manner.
Best Writing Technique: I'm going with Sinitrena here by a razor thin margin. Excellent use of imagery (shadows that had danced before in mirrors and nooks now went to sleep in the darkness; ...the breeze in the storm of her mind) is sometimes marred by unimaginative excess (...the blood running through her veins could outpace a cheetah). There were numerous typos and preposition swaps: the the threads, doubts sat in, sat to the feet, passed the staged, through towards her....). But this is tempered by a strong story design with a cynical beginning, followed by revelation, followed by the ultimate revelation in the awesome twist ending. Reiter's story also had some powerful phrases, especially based on strong choice of words: ...curtain have (sic) fallen on what was free, wild, hideous and beautiful; forth came the Rainbow hosts, beautiful and nebulous and resplendent. But his (her?) story suffered from a density of content that made especially the first half extremely difficult to decipher. I take a bit of liberty mashing some terms together, but if the Fallen Wyrm had only protected against the Deplorable Signs on the Oak of Agonies, couldn't he Alpha-All-Father then Sing-Shape the Egg Beyond Time into a Radiant Risen Omega World-Mother on the Bridge-Beyond-Bridges with a smidge of Prismatic Grace upon the Limitless Keystone?
However, given that real religious texts come across as just as baffling without careful parsing, and given that that section of the story was identified as a sedition against progress religious text by the Containment Bureau, I suppose the confusing way that the Emissary of the Endless Moth conveyed his message was justified. Yet, this is a story competition, and that was a bit of a hard slog in places, so point goes to Sinitrena. Best Character(s): My vote again goes to Sinitrena, by default since Reiter's story lacked any kind of character development. This is not to diminish the powerful arc of character development in Sinitrena's work: Harusech's faith journey is quite ambitious and well-executed, and the layers of Ktosep's character is impressive given the brevity of his part in the story.
Best Revelation: This category is truly agonising to decide. I thought Sinitrena's revelation of the revelation was brilliant and powerful, but I also was impressed by the infinite complexity of the divine as expressed by Reiter. I think in the end I'm going to have to (by a hair) vote for Sinitrena, simply because she clearly communicated a nuanced and layered revelation in a clever but heartbreaking manner.
) was just a witness reporting on the event, while the actual power that parted the seas seems to have come from Moses' own wizardry. But, creative as this was, they are both undeveloped as characters in the story.
