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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 9744031" data-attributes="member: 1008">I don't think this necessarily needs to be the case.You can certainly view a templar of Nibenay as an eager, fully invested fanatic in service to a cruel and bloodthirsty sorcerer conduction horrible experiments at one extreme. At the other, however, it's just as valid to have a Nibenese templar who is a young priestess, raised and indoctrinated in Nibenay's cult since childhood, who's come to realise the depravity and evil of the god-king she serves. The latter person is for more complex and deserves a lot more empathy than a junior nazgul.In my personal version of Nibenay, the templars were pretty fair and decent a lot of the time. Nibenay just wanted the people sedate and passive, and treating them relatively fairly was a method that usually worked. The evils going on were the things under the surface, that no one was stupid enough to ask too many questions about. It would certainly be possible for a templar under such a regime to avoid committing too many overt acts of overt harm or cruelty; it's the acts of omission and simply doing nothing as others commit evil that would be much harder (and more dangerous) to try and avoid.The reason I'm so enamoured of just the OBS + Ivory Triangle as my canon is it provides you with a rough framework but then leaves open a multitude of possibilities. The early material is asking you to go out and make of it what you will.</blockquote>

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