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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 8816874" data-attributes="member: 7034611">That seems awfully vague, citation needed <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Still looking for mine, meanwhile from the Kingpriest trilogy, this is the First Son, i.e. second in command speaking“They do unspeakable things in your name, my god,” he whispered, so softly he did little more than mouth the words. “They spread woe in the name of righteousness, hatred in the name of virtue. They are blind to you, dazzled by the Kingpriest’s light. Please, in the name of all who have suffered falsely in your name … in the name of the darkness and the light … let it end. Let me set it aright, once and for all.”Doesn't make the Kingpriest sound like the paragon of good, does it?Who is the 'we' here and why 'finally'? I feel like I have seen 20 posts on this topic, or so, all from today, maybe 4 people between them. Not sure either 'we' or 'finally' are justified.Is there some longer running conversation I am unaware of ?Now to your questions:1) all the gods agreed on the Cataclysm, not sure how reluctant the good ones were or whether they were, but in the end they all did it, so yes, the good gods did merc the Kingpriest, together with the rest of them.2) Killing thousands if not millions of innocents, not sure this can be said. They make it very clear that it was not about the Kingpriest only and the rest is not innocent. In fact just killing the Kingpriest would not have accomplished anything.If you want my personal take on this, chances are it also hit some innocents, just like the flood did. I see both events as roughly equivalent. All powerful and good beings should have no problem finding a better solution. For both you have to suspend disbelief and go with the canon.In the same vein suffering of survivors, yep, agreed.3) Takhisis, yep she got her chance because of the Cataclysm, but her downfall was also seeded in advance, i.e. Paladine made sure the disks would be in Xak Tsaroth, so Goldmoon could find them in the future.Almost like everything is preordained. If you go down the rabbit hole of canon long enough you are bound to find issues, esp. in a world like Krynn with over 200 published books <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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