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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alyx" data-source="post: 158040" data-attributes="member: 623">Meeting PointAnfaren, cleric of the shattered Lendore Isles, begs to take the floor.  Quickly he flashes a smile at the many delegates attendant at this meeting, the first in what feels like a great, long while.'I am afraid Jand is...  indisposed at the moment.'  Anfaren begins.  He coughs lightly, scans his notes, and then looks directly at the cameras set up by the press.'Many of us have seen our world shattered about us, friends and loved ones die by the dozens, hundreds, and millions.  I think that it is safe to say that we have seen firsthand destruction unparallel to any that has occurred to Oerth before now.  Certainly it beggars before it the minor conflicts and squabbles that have occurred before this all began.'Why has this happened?  Even before the gnomes began to tinker with this tool we now all hold, technology, some of us at least had the kind of power that we have seen unleashed in recent times.  But despite this, we stood still, in a sort of permanent game of waiting.  Why is it that the "red goo" is a strictly modern phenomenon?  There were times on our world when enough hate existed to summon it into being, if only it was given a slight nudge.  Yet it was never born fully.'Once, great kingdoms warred over Oerth.  They too had the power to do much more then they ever did.  Yet they never threw the sun's power against the world, nor invented world-devastating magiks of like nature.  They were not limited by knowledge!  After all, have not much our current knowledge of magic come from the remains of civilization they left behind?'So why is it that now is a time when we need not worry only for our own kingdoms, but for the very planet upon which we stand today?'My explanation is resident in one word; indifference.  Some of those among us here would not shed a single tear for a million lives, and would burn a world just to hear the screams.  Never mind that there would be no one left to scream afterward -- let the future deal with itself.'Vecna would laugh at many of you if he saw us now.  He knew that the ultimate power is that of control.  Destruction is temporary and irreversible.  It is the tool of the weak.'But I have not come to speak only with you of evil intent.  What I say next is aimed at us all, including Jand and myself.‘Ponder carefully every choice you make.  Consider whether the end justifies the means.  Destroying those that are against you means absolutely nothing if the world is shattered as well.‘Thank you.’</blockquote>

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