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<blockquote data-quote="Matthan" data-source="post: 6858037" data-attributes="member: 20005"><p><span style="color: #4B0082">"I'm fine. A bolt got me in the gut, but my armor took the worst of it. I'm sure I'll feel it more later. I'm worried though. If this strike is about this case, then we aren't going to be the only ones after it."</span> He noticeably looks away as he finishes, "There are more people in this city than just the Resistance who would kill for Ragesian intelligence."</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #4B0082">"As for Kathor, if he really is related to that Ragesian general, then he wouldn't be the first person to have a falling out with the people who raised him. I think most people can understand that. No one is just one thing."</span> A wistful smirk unknowingly flickers across his face as he continues,<span style="color: #4B0082"> " It's easy in Gate Pass to look toward our neighbors in Ragesia and Shahalesti and see them as evil nations that want to control us and certainly Coaltongue's occupation a generation ago helps that, but I'm sure they see themselves as good people doing the right thing. I'm sure their fathers cared for them just as ours did for us. I don't think they boil their children or prostitute their souls to dark gods. People are people wherever you go. The problem isn't the people. It's their leaders. Shaaladel once fought beside Coaltongue and helped Ragesia roll over its neighbors to protect his own land. I'm sure the people he helped conquer see him as a villain, but I'm certain his own people see him as a noble leader that protected their land from the immortal emperor. Regardless, he led his people to fight in another man's war. Was that his people's fault? Coaltongue seemed unstoppable not to long ago. Is it fair to blame his armies for their emperor's conquests?"</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #4B0082">"That's what's so hard about war. It's not like we are fighting inhuman devils from the planes. We are fighting people with friends and families just like us who are following their leader's orders. War makes good people do terrible things. Who can say what we would do if put in their shoes? That's what makes Leska so terrifying. I don't know what she will make good men and women do for her. Coaltongue had a lust for conquest. I may dislike it, but inside every heart is a desire for more. Most of us learn to tame it, but Coaltongue reveled in it. I reject that, but I can understand it. Shaaladel allied with Coaltongue to protect his people. Who among us wouldn't do something terrible to protect those we love? However, neither ever set off anything like this Scourge. Leska is something different than what we've seen before. She is rounding up every magic user and no one hears from them again. I've heard rumors of what may happen to them, but let's not kid ourselves. The Scourge is exterminating magic users. There is no other reason for it. Something is foul in the heart of a person who can call for the wholesale slaughter of every man, woman, and child that is touched by magic regardless of their actions. And this is her first program? Who knows what further evils her people will be forced to perform if she isn't stopped? What happens to the souls of a people when they are forced to know and do evil for generations on end?"</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matthan, post: 6858037, member: 20005"] [COLOR="#4B0082"]"I'm fine. A bolt got me in the gut, but my armor took the worst of it. I'm sure I'll feel it more later. I'm worried though. If this strike is about this case, then we aren't going to be the only ones after it."[/COLOR] He noticeably looks away as he finishes, "There are more people in this city than just the Resistance who would kill for Ragesian intelligence." [COLOR="#4B0082"]"As for Kathor, if he really is related to that Ragesian general, then he wouldn't be the first person to have a falling out with the people who raised him. I think most people can understand that. No one is just one thing."[/COLOR] A wistful smirk unknowingly flickers across his face as he continues,[COLOR="#4B0082"] " It's easy in Gate Pass to look toward our neighbors in Ragesia and Shahalesti and see them as evil nations that want to control us and certainly Coaltongue's occupation a generation ago helps that, but I'm sure they see themselves as good people doing the right thing. I'm sure their fathers cared for them just as ours did for us. I don't think they boil their children or prostitute their souls to dark gods. People are people wherever you go. The problem isn't the people. It's their leaders. Shaaladel once fought beside Coaltongue and helped Ragesia roll over its neighbors to protect his own land. I'm sure the people he helped conquer see him as a villain, but I'm certain his own people see him as a noble leader that protected their land from the immortal emperor. Regardless, he led his people to fight in another man's war. Was that his people's fault? Coaltongue seemed unstoppable not to long ago. Is it fair to blame his armies for their emperor's conquests?"[/COLOR] [COLOR="#4B0082"]"That's what's so hard about war. It's not like we are fighting inhuman devils from the planes. We are fighting people with friends and families just like us who are following their leader's orders. War makes good people do terrible things. Who can say what we would do if put in their shoes? That's what makes Leska so terrifying. I don't know what she will make good men and women do for her. Coaltongue had a lust for conquest. I may dislike it, but inside every heart is a desire for more. Most of us learn to tame it, but Coaltongue reveled in it. I reject that, but I can understand it. Shaaladel allied with Coaltongue to protect his people. Who among us wouldn't do something terrible to protect those we love? However, neither ever set off anything like this Scourge. Leska is something different than what we've seen before. She is rounding up every magic user and no one hears from them again. I've heard rumors of what may happen to them, but let's not kid ourselves. The Scourge is exterminating magic users. There is no other reason for it. Something is foul in the heart of a person who can call for the wholesale slaughter of every man, woman, and child that is touched by magic regardless of their actions. And this is her first program? Who knows what further evils her people will be forced to perform if she isn't stopped? What happens to the souls of a people when they are forced to know and do evil for generations on end?"[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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