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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8311697" data-attributes="member: 6796468">[USER=7635]@Remathilis[/USER] Take Tyr, as an example. In Dark Sun you can try to eke out a living for another day, gather a tiny bit more wealth and pleasure for yourself. Or you can work with a Templar-Traitor and use the Heartwood Spear to kill one of the Sorcerer-Kings and free the city from his oppressive reign  in order to open up the possibility of Democracy.You can be the Mad Max character roving from community to community just trying to live your life and wind up saving the people from Immortan Joe or Master Blaster. With no more will to accomplish these tasks than to just have another day alive in a desert wasteland, trading your effort for the supplies you need.Sword and Sorcery characters can be -Amoral- warriors who do good and evil in equal measure. Or Antiheroes who do terrible things for good causes. Or be outright heroes trying to heal the world, or at least their little corner of it.It doesn't have to be one or the other. Heck! It wasn't for Conan!You know -how- he winds up with the Crown of Aquilonia? He -LIBERATES- the nation from the Mad King Numedides and the evil sorcerer Thulandra Thuu! He builds up an army and fights against Aquilonia with the express intent of overthrowing the corrupt, decadent, and wicked king. And when he finds the banners of the Royal Guard on the battlefield he steals away in the night (With a column of men) and attacks the severely undermanned city of Tarantia.He bursts into the throne room sending Thuu to escape when he realizes he's outnumbered, then winds up choking Numedides to death when the king begs for his life then tries to stab Conan with a poisoned dagger.But even Conan, the Barbarian, The Cimmerian, the Destroyer, the Amoral Antihero so many people love and adore... Becomes the Liberator and King Conan of Aquilonia. And then gets bored out of his gourd by the tedium and minutiae of running a kingdom. But at least he saved it!</blockquote>

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