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<blockquote data-quote="Maudlin" data-source="post: 92462" data-attributes="member: 86">Re: An answer to the WandererAcererak responds.Ah, thus speaketh the victor. I'm sure the millions of slaughtered elves draw immense comfort from your improved quality of life, wingboy.I was quite content at accepting the Wanderer's message for what it was, up until the point where it started coming true on our world as well.What are you doing here? Have you come to pacify us, manu militari? Whip the underlings until morale improves? What we have seen of your enlightened path has not impressed us. It is feeble doctrine and blind despotism. Leave.Ha! I couldn't have phrased it better myself. He sends images of Forrester :&quot;And yes, I decide who lives, and who dies. &quot;&quot;MY FORCES soiled and despoiled Evereska so that no thing could grow there for decades. MY FORCES sunk EVERMEET, great island of the elves, into the sea. My forces took on the combined might of High Elven Magic and the Illithid, and won. And you are correct – we showed no mercy. We killed all – men, women, children. Their blood dripped from our lips as we shouted to the heavens news of our victories. When another Great War came again, years later, we did the same – oh, our dietary habits changed, but there was the same carnage. Millions died. But we won again. There was never any doubt. &quot;&quot;And talk no more of our relative good and evil. Good? Bad? I’m the guy with the gun. &quot;You were decribing the reasons for why their wholesale slaughter was justified, yes? I think I will watch with interest as you now ally yourself with our oppressors. I will watch with interest for all the benefactory and unselfish uses of Forrester's magic now that the shoe is on the other foot.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maudlin, post: 92462, member: 86"] [b]Re: An answer to the Wanderer[/b] Acererak responds. [B][/B] Ah, thus speaketh the victor. I'm sure the millions of slaughtered elves draw immense comfort from your improved quality of life, wingboy. I was quite content at accepting the Wanderer's message for what it was, up until the point where it started coming true on our world as well. What are you doing here? Have you come to pacify us, manu militari? Whip the underlings until morale improves? What we have seen of your enlightened path has not impressed us. It is feeble doctrine and blind despotism. Leave. [B][/B] Ha! I couldn't have phrased it better myself. He sends images of Forrester : "And yes, I decide who lives, and who dies. " "MY FORCES soiled and despoiled Evereska so that no thing could grow there for decades. MY FORCES sunk EVERMEET, great island of the elves, into the sea. My forces took on the combined might of High Elven Magic and the Illithid, and won. And you are correct – we showed no mercy. We killed all – men, women, children. Their blood dripped from our lips as we shouted to the heavens news of our victories. When another Great War came again, years later, we did the same – oh, our dietary habits changed, but there was the same carnage. Millions died. But we won again. There was never any doubt. " "And talk no more of our relative good and evil. Good? Bad? I’m the guy with the gun. " You were decribing the reasons for why their wholesale slaughter was justified, yes? I think I will watch with interest as you now ally yourself with [B]our[/B] oppressors. I will watch with interest for all the benefactory and unselfish uses of Forrester's magic now that the shoe is on the other foot. [/QUOTE]

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