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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3736374" data-attributes="member: 3448">“What do they define as tainted?” asked Dame Brionna.“Much as the Hastur define it:  those who have been touched by the demon places.  But the Sytryites do not cleanse, they destroy.  They are the most fanatical of the paladins.  We have sought to moderate them without success.  A great star priestess offered the services of one of our greatest coercers to uncover the taint, but was rebuffed.”  A slight tone of anger and pride crept into the Eldar’s voice as he described that.  “They are serious in their war against evil and taint, but they think they follow the only way.”“Can the taint be removed from a single person who has it?” asked Kit.“I have been given the grace of Eiru to see a family of humans, where the entire family had received the taint, so I found the demons one at a time, and ripped their spirits into small bits, and the children grew old, and had children, and grandchildren, and died of old age--you have to do something about this, the way you age and die so quickly--if I can do this, so can they.  Your priests can do it.  The Hasturs can do it.  But they will not listen.  They insist that any who have the taint must be purged and that if they know that some in a group are tainted, it is better to purge them all than to let the tainted remain as a threat.”Alistair leaned forward.  “That sounds more like the doctrines of devils to me than anything I would associate with the light.  Is it possible that devils are manipulating them, twisting the actions of the Sytryites to serve their own goals?”“I had not considered that possibility, although you are right that their conduct, whil orderly, is also in a sense evil.”  Lord Silverleaves thought about it.  “As for the Knights of Truth?  No.  They are too walled off from anything but their faith and their holy books.  The harm they cause is of their own making, not the work of devils.  Other Sytryites, religious but not the Knights of Truth, possibly.  They may have been deceived.”  He thought for a while longer, and then continued in a whisper, “It really is their nature.  Their purity is at the expense of all things gray.  There is no middle for them.  If they were more numerous, I would be more worried about them.”“Thank you for this information, your lordship,” said Alistair.  “We will reach out to them through our temple and encourage them to be more circumspect in the future, and we will begin quietly investigating whether there is any possibility that they are being manipulated."</blockquote>

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