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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Serpenteye" data-source="post: 1324427" data-attributes="member: 1492">"I agree that a sacrifice is more likely, but we will probably be able to do nothing about it. Our enemy is powerful and surely wise enough to make preparations for facing us once our quest has been completed, and to attack him then would be foolish. I prefer to believe that it is an item he desires, and if we have it we might be able to use it as the added strength we need to destroy him. Delivering a powerful weapon into the hands of one who would presume to rule us might be a decisive mistake. I'm afraid we cannot afford to discount the possibility, or the possible necessity of the revolting act I have suggested. It's not something we must all take part in, though. I would want to spare you the horror of the act, if we as a group decide that we should go trough with it." He answers Brystasia's smile and her apology with a smile of his own. His voice is soft at first, and it remains calm and pleasant, but it gradually changes slightly in pitch, becomes more carrying, so that he can be heard throughout the chamber. "You are right, I did provoke Abd-Ratep. I forgive you, and offer my apology in turn. My words may have seemed unnecessary, petty and cruel. Yet sometimes such is called for. I had to establish precedence between us and the object of our quest, to make him realise that his natural arrogance is out of place in our company. He is not in any way superior to us, quite the contrary as dictated by the circumstances.  I see my attitude puzzles you, my view of the celestial order no doubt differs from your own. I see in our angelic friend and all his kin a reflection of the possessive will of the gods, their desire to shape and control the mortal races. Whatever their alignment and portfolio all but a few deities view us mortals as mere instruments, tools created for their own selfish or faux altruistic goals. By the sole virtue of power they view themselves as our superiors, when they are but constructs of our own stolen faith and their very survival depends on it. In the end it is hunger that motivates their actions, hunger for worship, power and life. Whatever gifts or threats they offer, whatever aspect of existence they seek to embody it is all dictated by the basic need that defines their very beings. They must have worship, and there is nothing they will not do to get it. They need us, but we do not need them. I am a living proof of that."</blockquote>

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