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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 180511" data-attributes="member: 961">Iuz finally takes the time to rise from his position, “I am sure ambassador of the Taraakian Empire that you know who I am, and what I have done.  I will not sway you with pretty words.  I will speak the truth of my actions…”“I have said many times before that I have brought death and misery on a large scale to this world, actions that I have worked to rectify, but I accept wholeheartedly the villain within me.  I do not hide from it, I accept who I am.  I am Iuz, Master of the Glowing Darkness… son of Grazzt, I was born with a dark legacy…”Iuz paused for a slight moment, “I live up to that legacy a thousand times over, but recent times have increased our ability to wage war and destroy whole peoples… which has given me pause to reflect.  What is it that we fight for?  Land, then why do we destroy it… for our people… we condemn them to death in our petty wars… for an ideal… we crush all vestiges of foreign ideology under the wavering boot of justice and righteousness.”“In my reflection I saw a different path, not good… nor evil… but life.  I have created life, and work ever still to create more life,” he waves a hand and vision of a world forms before the leaders and the Taraakian, a blue and green world.“This is the legacy I wish to leave behind, a place for my people to live and explore this life in peace.  It has come to my attention that all this world… no this universe cares for is to kill.  Kill for love, peace, and good… Kill for evil… selfishness… land.  But the urge remains, the cycle will not end… even your words are laced with the venom of bloodshed.  You kill one man, and another shall rise to avenge him.  Peace by the sword is a false peace.  A lull between the bloodshed, a simple frailty of peace that will shatter at the first hint of anger; can you change this?  I doubt any can, not man, beast, god, nor any power can change this.  Why is this so, because we as individuals can choose our path,” Iuz says with a wave of his hand, “we can choose our fate.  We choose to kill, we choose to live, and we can choose peace.”“But one must first accept peace, I have accepted it, and have yet to raise a hand against my attackers… I defend myself because I know there are some who choose to kill, and I will not let my people suffer needlessly…  I shall bring them the gift of Chorazin, a world where they may live free from this wholesale suffering and slaughter… that will be my final selfish act… to make my people happy… and free… a world where they can choose to live in peace… and seek the true beauty of the Glowing Darkness… if you wish to destroy me then do so.  But I speak spare my people, I have grown old, and I wish for this life to have meaning, even as a divine being, I still seek to leave my legacy for my people.   I have spoken my piece… I choose no aggression against you.  I have not chosen any aggression with anyone.  I seek to live,” Iuz concludes his speech… and sits.</blockquote>

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