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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1301380" data-attributes="member: 3649">Extracted from the Book of Blades... Before a field can be planted, a blade must break the earth. Before bread can be baked, wheat must be cut down. Sometimes to our sorrow, before there is peace, there must be war. Before the realm can know peace, we must know war, even as a boil knows the heated lance. A man in the alehouse asserted that nothing was worse than war, at which point the god moved within me and forced me to action. "No," I said, standing, "It is not. What is worse is a man who claims that peace is not worth war. That man is no man at all, but a craven dog that crawls upon it's own belly, a lickspittle who deserves not the freedom that a strong blade brings. Peace is worth anything needed to acheive it." Whereupon I sat down, feeling the god's voice depart my mouth, and ate a pleasent meal in silence. -- Declarations of the Devotions, Chapter IV I was in the marketplace to buy bread, when I saw a child and her mother shopping at the cart next to me. The child swept her hand across the scales, disrupting the merchant at his counting, yet the mother did nothing whilest she perused the wares. Twice more did this happen when a passerby did grab the child's hand and move it to the child's side with some force. I was struck by the parallel to the Devotionist teachings, which say that no man shall raise hand against another. Here before my eyes was that creed writ small, and the result. Even as the hand of the god must sometimes move us to action, so must we move to action against the unruly and untutored, so that we might know peace and they know instruction. --Travels with Sister Merridin</blockquote>

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