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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6145534" data-attributes="member: 63"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">Watchmakers</span></strong></p><p><em>Eliminate free will and design a thousand-year destiny for the world.</em></p><p></p><p>[align=right]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=57779&d=1371144113[/align]The Watchmaker proposal is particularly popular among pious members of the Obscurati, or at least those raised in countries where the Clergy is powerful. This faction was organized by Leone Quital, known as the <em>Steelshaper</em>, who made sure his faction came to the Convocation already organized.</p><p></p><p>Of all the proposals, the Watchmakers' is the riskiest, because its specifics cannot be tested in a demi-plane. But the Watchmakers say the risk is worth the reward.</p><p></p><p>The Obscurati researchers have determined that it is impossible to simply force people to behave a certain way via planar alignments, because free will is inherent to mortal intelligence. For a person to regularly <em>choose</em> moral actions, he must have been raised to value morality over selfish power. So the Watchmakers propose to eliminate free will entirely for one thousand years, during which they will enforce a precise course of events that will result, like clockwork, in a world where all people have been raised to behave morally. Then, after a millennium, the clock will wind down and leave all mortals with free will and a wholly moral society.</p><p></p><p>To accomplish this, the Watchmakers will replace three of the eight planes. Time shall have an aspect of Clockwork (and the plane's connection will be inscribed with the details of destined events), Life will have Goodness (to drive people against their will to be good), and Death will have Domination (to bind people so they are slaves).</p><p></p><p>Leone Quital has provided members of his faction with a lengthy description of the 1000 year plan. The drawback, of course, is that every member of the Obscurati will have to willingly sacrifice their free will too, and none will live to see the plan come to fruition. And even though tests of similar planar energies in demi-planes suggestion the plan will work, the Ob will have to trust that their plans will work out 1000 years into the future. Once set into motion, nothing can be changed.</p><p></p><p>And thus we come to the end of the five main factions. Tomorrow we will see brief information on minor and radical factions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 6145534, member: 63"] [b][size=3]Watchmakers[/size][/b] [I]Eliminate free will and design a thousand-year destiny for the world.[/I] [align=right]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=57779&d=1371144113[/align]The Watchmaker proposal is particularly popular among pious members of the Obscurati, or at least those raised in countries where the Clergy is powerful. This faction was organized by Leone Quital, known as the [i]Steelshaper[/i], who made sure his faction came to the Convocation already organized. Of all the proposals, the Watchmakers' is the riskiest, because its specifics cannot be tested in a demi-plane. But the Watchmakers say the risk is worth the reward. The Obscurati researchers have determined that it is impossible to simply force people to behave a certain way via planar alignments, because free will is inherent to mortal intelligence. For a person to regularly [i]choose[/i] moral actions, he must have been raised to value morality over selfish power. So the Watchmakers propose to eliminate free will entirely for one thousand years, during which they will enforce a precise course of events that will result, like clockwork, in a world where all people have been raised to behave morally. Then, after a millennium, the clock will wind down and leave all mortals with free will and a wholly moral society. To accomplish this, the Watchmakers will replace three of the eight planes. Time shall have an aspect of Clockwork (and the plane's connection will be inscribed with the details of destined events), Life will have Goodness (to drive people against their will to be good), and Death will have Domination (to bind people so they are slaves). Leone Quital has provided members of his faction with a lengthy description of the 1000 year plan. The drawback, of course, is that every member of the Obscurati will have to willingly sacrifice their free will too, and none will live to see the plan come to fruition. And even though tests of similar planar energies in demi-planes suggestion the plan will work, the Ob will have to trust that their plans will work out 1000 years into the future. Once set into motion, nothing can be changed. And thus we come to the end of the five main factions. Tomorrow we will see brief information on minor and radical factions. [/QUOTE]
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