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Yugoloths: Do They Have an Identity Beyond the Blood War?
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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 8166027" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>[USER=8461]@Alzrius[/USER] I think you perfectly captured the question being asked in the OP. Devils corrupt, demons destroy, and yugoloths...?</p><p></p><p>My answer would be "abuse", or as a more specific form of abuse: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting" target="_blank">gaslight</a>."</p><p></p><p>My answer is that yugoloths want to make other beings question their judgment, memory, and perception to the point that they become paralyzed, suffer crippling self-doubt, become dependent on the yugoloths for direction in life (or success in battle), or even join the yugoloth ranks/mercenaries in a state of despair.</p><p></p><p>They don't want to corrupt you to the "dark side"; instead they want you to question your core values and what's real, so that the idea there ever was a "light side" is just a faint whisper in your fading dreams. And they don't want to destroy you... not prematurely, at least, not before they've had their abusive fun showing you "the real truth", and even then they'd rather you destroy yourself.</p><p></p><p>Yugoloths are akin to the cold hard pragmatists of the world. If you've ever heard someone say "That's not how this office works...", "not in the real world...", "name one thing in life that doesn't involve competition...", or "I'm just trying to toughen you up...", or "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...", that's very possibly (depending on the sentiment of the person, of course) the precipice at which the yugoloth's paradigm begins. There is no good and evil, according to yugoloths – that's just an illusion created by weak-minded/weak-willed fools to avoid confronting the cold hard truth that life is nasty, brutish, short, and self-interested. When a 'loth says "Evil" they use it like a philosopher might use "Truth" or "the way things are."</p><p></p><p>Their tactics are denial, misdirection, and misinformation. In fact, not to get political, but if you look at American media today there are some prime examples of the sorts of tactics I imagine yugoloths employing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 8166027, member: 20323"] [USER=8461]@Alzrius[/USER] I think you perfectly captured the question being asked in the OP. Devils corrupt, demons destroy, and yugoloths...? My answer would be "abuse", or as a more specific form of abuse: "[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting']gaslight[/URL]." My answer is that yugoloths want to make other beings question their judgment, memory, and perception to the point that they become paralyzed, suffer crippling self-doubt, become dependent on the yugoloths for direction in life (or success in battle), or even join the yugoloth ranks/mercenaries in a state of despair. They don't want to corrupt you to the "dark side"; instead they want you to question your core values and what's real, so that the idea there ever was a "light side" is just a faint whisper in your fading dreams. And they don't want to destroy you... not prematurely, at least, not before they've had their abusive fun showing you "the real truth", and even then they'd rather you destroy yourself. Yugoloths are akin to the cold hard pragmatists of the world. If you've ever heard someone say "That's not how this office works...", "not in the real world...", "name one thing in life that doesn't involve competition...", or "I'm just trying to toughen you up...", or "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger...", that's very possibly (depending on the sentiment of the person, of course) the precipice at which the yugoloth's paradigm begins. There is no good and evil, according to yugoloths – that's just an illusion created by weak-minded/weak-willed fools to avoid confronting the cold hard truth that life is nasty, brutish, short, and self-interested. When a 'loth says "Evil" they use it like a philosopher might use "Truth" or "the way things are." Their tactics are denial, misdirection, and misinformation. In fact, not to get political, but if you look at American media today there are some prime examples of the sorts of tactics I imagine yugoloths employing. [/QUOTE]
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