Makharat frowns. " Do not fool yourself. The point is not that they place you in the same category as me, but that they place neither of us in the same category as them, he says. " Perhaps you think I my generalizations are wrong, and perhaps they are, but everything I say is certainly true about that fool, Wulfcyne. He is like that worm from the Shard. Their perception of the world is clouded, their views simplistic. By the standards of these Southlanders I am called evil, but they do not know evil as I do. My home is called the Demon Wastes for a reason, and though some of that power fills me, never make the mistake of thinking that I am representative of the monsters that call that place their home. I can be contented to live and let live, but they will never be, it is not what they are, dark and foul. "
" Yes, I manipulate your mind, but not for the sinister purpose that you think. Not to make you their enemy, just to make you my ally. Deny it if you will, but you and I share more in common than we do with them, and that should make us loyal comrades though we may not be friends. "
