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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 179984" data-attributes="member: 426">Hazen's ResponseOOC: If Hazen did not know you had your dream power, then why would he have protected you in some of the earlier attacks.  He knows of the power, or at least suspects.  Archcleric Hazen of Veluna, President of the Oerth Alliance and the Kevellond League, bows low before the leaders of the Taraakians."I stand ready to answer any and all of your questions honestly and to the best of my ability.  I greet you in peace.""I sought to unite many of the nations of Oerth into a force promoting peace, trade, and the rights of the individual.  When the Wanderer made his announcement, we meet with the leaders of the Lortmils to determine the truth for ourselves.  I sent an ambassador to Hope Island on Toril to learn whether the Wanderer's message was true.""I welcomed the United Commonwealth of Toril as brothers and stood by them.  They helped save my people.  I made peace with the members of the Underdark Alliance after I attacked them.  I believed they were planning an all out assault on the Kevellond League.  There was some truth to this statement.""I have sought to promote understanding and friendship between people of many races.  I opposed the Shade, who called for an attack on my lands after enslaving the Domain of Greyhawk.  I opposed Vecna.""My people have tried to support all that is good and noble in our natures.  We practice religious tolerance and are working on a democratic republic.""I called on the Angels of the Seventh Heaven to save my world, and they came.  Regardless of what happens, I will always be grateful for their aid.""We have searched for ways to heal Oerth of the Red Goo.  I was willing to suffer so that the Blood Waste could be healed.  To my surprise, the Angels rewarded me for my willingness to sacrifice on behalf of others.""I armed my allies with Oerthblood weapons.  I offered them to all who would oppose the Red Armada.  I called on President Forrester to help.  Sadly, he and Anabstercorian acted in a way I did not forsee.""I have said that I would forgive Forrester if he was repentant and worked towards healing the damage he caused.  I believe in justice as well as forgiveness.""I sought to learn the truth of the Dark Powers so I could find a way to defeat them.  I learned that each of us are a part of the dark powers through our own baser natures. Yet we can triumph over them and deny them.  Alzem risked his soul to try to save me.""I have tried to be a force for peace, goodness, and tolerance.  I have placed my life and the lives of my people on the line for our principles.  I have reached out to old enemies and given them a chance to reform.""I have sought to do my part to save other worlds from the attacks of the Red Waste.  I ask you to judge my actions and to remember that I am still at my core a mortal man.  The Angels have asked me to join them, and I am honored.  Yet I am still capable of error and misjudgement.  To my knowledge, there is only One who is incapable of error and misjudgement.  Yet the Eternal allows us free will.  For any decision that is coerced is not a choice.  The choice to do good, to serve others, to love, and to forgive must be made freely in each heart.  We are allowed to chose to between good and evil.  Seeing the wonderful diversity of creation, I choose to serve it and the principles that uphold that creation.""I believe there are many paths to enlightenment.  On Earth, a world that I hope you will one day aid, I found people of many different forms and faiths.  Their civilization was in ruins, yet still there were those who praise the Eternal, who are grateful for life and goodness.  We can learn much from their example.  I pray that Oerth, Toril, Krynn, Mystara, Athas and other worlds will be spared their tragedy.""I could perhaps have tried harder to stop the Red Goo and defeat the forces of darkness.  However, I believe my efforts were earnest.  I will allow you to judge my actions.""If my people are to be held in account for their actions and a punishment is declared, I humbly ask to take any punishment you issue upon myself.  They are a good and compassionate people.""I have learned that people can change for the better.  Lord Kalanyr's emergence from the evils of his past has helped others to see that they can overcome their own darker urges.  I have counselled people to see how he overame his past in order to face their own internal evils.""For I have learned that the Dark Powers reside within us, urging us to hate and destroy others and ultimately ourselves.  We are all akin in the great family of being, regardless of world, form, station, or the name we chose to call the Divine.   I pray that the Eternal will bless us all and that we shall be guided by our better natures.""I realize that you have reason to be angry with those of Oerth.  However, do not judge a world by the worst of its people.  I chose not to do that with the Wanderer's message.  In doing so, I learned of the goodness of people like Ian Payne.  If I had prejudged Toril, I would  never have learned of this remarkable man.""I do have one request before the court.  I ask if you have received my friend, Ambassador Gwilym Raonul?  Is he well."OOC:  This is one of my quicker long posts, but I hope it is not awkward because of my haste.  Hazen will have likely included his more eloquent posts from earlier.  Essentially, he has made sure that the Taraakians know and feel everything he knows and feels.  I believe in a policy of openess, in game and in real life.  It avoids a great deal of trouble.Hazen will explain everything that has happened in the IR to his knowledge. He will answer questions on everything to his alliances to his journeys on other worlds.  He will discuss his own beliefs if asked about them.</blockquote>

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