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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3733624" data-attributes="member: 3448">“Excellent,” said Alistair.  “That could greatly improve our strategic situation.  Your lordship, if we may, there are some other topics we would like to discuss with you.  We spoke with the Archbaroness of Mandrath who told us that the Temple of Sytry has been involved in atrocities.  We were skeptical because of the hostility between their faiths but agreed to ask you whether you could confirm these reports.”“It depends;  how do you define atrocities?”“Refusing to provide food, water, and healing to refugees in desperate times unless the refugees would agree to convert, leading to starvation and death.  Slaughtering large numbers of innocents because they have been infiltrated by a few with Shadow corruption.  And similar acts of intolerance and severity.” “Their knights have committed such things from time to time,” said Lord Silverleaves sadly, nodding his head.  “Their nuns have never participated, and these incidents were not on this continent.  They try to serve the light, but they lack discernment.  They also strike at the fey, the lesser fey-- they cannot tell the difference between Seelie and Unseelie, so they seek to kill all.  In some ways, they are harder than the Inquisition of Paranswarm.  We have at one time, not that many turnings ago, intervened on behalf of a group of refugees who were in danger of being wiped out because the Knights of Truth could sense taint, but could not determine who among the refugees were tainted.”“I’m surprised that you would tolerate their deeds,” said Kit.“They are powerful in the fight against evil, so we did not want to fight them directly.  Matters are too delicate for us to oppose them strongly.  Do you know of the reasons for their harshness?”“I am afraid that we do not, your lordship.”“The Sytry god came from elsewhere, beyond the wheel of Time and Space.”“As the Horned Rat did?”“Indeed, from the same place as the Horned Rat, but he was a God of Law, not of Chaos.  The Sytryite god is rough, but he came here to retire.  Once a human, he was a sorcerer who so attained the perfection of law that he became a god.  First a champion of law, and then he became a god through his perfection of law.  He fought long and long in war with Chaos, but finally he rested, and brought his followers here.  But the war was here as well, so he set up his temples and forbade certain things, such as resurrection of the dead, because of fear of the taint, although resurrection has never resulted in taint here.  Three orders pursue his goals, the Horned Sisters through peace, the Knights of Truth through war, and the Priests of Eternal Light through knowledge.  His temple would not view the actions of the Knights of Truth as atrocities if there was taint among any of the refugees they slew or left to die.  It might even be only one tainted among thousands, but they would view that as acceptable."</blockquote>

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