NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 2741466" data-attributes="member: 35788">True, but NoL can be extinguished at will and reactivated again as a free action.  So not as useless as you would have everyone believe.True.  But it is often not very reliable to trust that one's deity understands the need for communication in the same terms as people.  Where people might want to call for reinforcements or send a message home updating the troops ... a deity might see that as a worthy chalenge to continue alone!  Of course, there is always the chance that the deity could send in a guardinal when not looking, too.  It can go either way.The Alliance of Fenneress and the Confederacy of Tongra have a longstanding policy that those who desire to free themselves of the oppressive forces within Quehalost will be accepted and reintegrated elsewhere in the land - provided they come unarmed and drained of any powers/spells they might have access to - once they cross the border.  They are picked up by a border patrol and deprogrammed.  Then, they are wisked far away from the evils of the land so that temptation to evil does not linger.  However, evil has grown so strong in that land that many who live there cannot remember the time when evil was merely growing and not dominant.  Many elves do not even remember that time any more.  As the evil has taken a strong grasp over the land, many have learned to adapt to the evil.  Many who are left would not even think about being anywhere else except in the evil land.  Those who are reached and see the light often stay because they know that they are one of the few forces working for a cause other than evil.  They know that if they leave, evil will go unchecked.  Thus, there are not many true innocents anymore.  There are willing participants on both sides.  But innocents, people desiring to be redeemed, and those who tire of the struggle may come through the border unarmed and be saved.You have answered this question by asking your own first question.  Glammerdell would reply in a true priestly form, "Look around - most of the others have focused on the destruction of the vileness, which is a worthy cause indeed and ultimately a very nessary goal.  It is the party's main objective, really.  But it takes a simple monk who has sworn off material gain to be concerned about innocents and perhaps even redemption of the vile themselves.  Pelor's light can be a crushing force against the wicked, but Pelor's light can be a beacon of hope into the darkness.  Both uses of Pelor's gifts will be useful on this quest."Engrishonly - thanks for the update.  Have fun with the family and see you on the other side of Thanksgiving then.</blockquote>

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