I might've mentioned it in passing, but that was a whole other mess in a whole other world called Horos. A lot of us go all the way back from then.
That was pretty much all-out war between the two sides, though. That's why I try to play nice with the Zenites -- we might have opposing goals, but I don't want things to get as bad as they did on Horos.
Yeah. We'd be talking a full-scale invasion of Highstorm for things to get that bad here. Right now, the Oracle stuff is kind of a war by proxy.
Of course, someone like Set wants things to get that bad here. It's his nature. If he knows you'd oppose him over something like shards, he might target them deliberately, just to provoke a reaction out of you.
...I want to like Set. We had a conversation early enduring my time here, where he talked about being despised. About how people hated him because of what he represented. I told him then - and I still believe now - that war is sometimes necessary, although never something to be sought out. But he certainly seems to thrive on chaos...
It would be one thing if he represented war, but it wasn't his true nature. Yet all the evidence I've seen so far is that he wants to instigate conflict, and he treats people like playthings... I can't abide a god like that.
I know you're a softy, Dimitri, but don't let the pity party fool you. All the mortals who suffer in war are worth a thousand times more of your compassion than him.
Well, I stopped believing in gods when I was a little kid. When you only have yourself to rely on, you figure out pretty quick what it is you want, and how to get there.
I still don't know much about your childhood, admittedly. But I understand not wanting to share. My own path was rather set, yes. Although at the time I didn't much mind...
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leicesters) wrote2022-12-06 08:26 pm
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[ He's mostly just a touch amazed by that. ]
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That was pretty much all-out war between the two sides, though. That's why I try to play nice with the Zenites -- we might have opposing goals, but I don't want things to get as bad as they did on Horos.
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Of course, someone like Set wants things to get that bad here. It's his nature. If he knows you'd oppose him over something like shards, he might target them deliberately, just to provoke a reaction out of you.
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I know you're a softy, Dimitri, but don't let the pity party fool you. All the mortals who suffer in war are worth a thousand times more of your compassion than him.
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[ He is a softie. He'll be the first to admit that. But he doesn't think that's necessarily wrong of him. ]
War is terrible... and I have no wish to see it happen again while I can prevent it.
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[ There's the impression of a smile. ]
I know who I am now. And I know what path I must walk.
[ You know, after all of that horrible stuff. ]
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Yeah. Gods exist to give people a path to walk, but if you have your own, you don't need to worry about being lead astray.
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[ He laughs - or it's the impression of amusement. ]
Faerghus is tied tightly to the Church. Things were... different.
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