As mentioned before, Kafira Kristos is the stand in for Jesus in Senta’s world.  Religion is a problem for most fantasy books.  Writers usually shoe-horn a polytheistic religion into settings like the Middle Ages.  It just doesn’t work.  Of course if you use Christianity, you risk the fury of people who think you might be impugning their religion.

The idea for Kafira was in part out of this necessity as a writer.  I needed a religion and a founder of that religion, but since the story takes place in a world not too unlike our own early 1900s, it wouldn’t have worked with a Greco-Roman type mythology.

I was also thinking once, that assuming Christianity were true, and life exhisted on other planets, would Jesus have appeared on each of those other worlds, or would they have their own unique messiahs.  I decided on the latter for the story and to make it a bit more interesting, made that messiah a woman.  It adds a whole new meaning to “Mother Church.”

Kafira was a Zaeri teacher before she was known as the daughter of God, and so caused the same kind of split between Kafirite and Zaeri that we have between Christain and Jew in our world.  This of course was part of the basic fabric of the story I wanted to tell.