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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xath" data-source="post: 1591474" data-attributes="member: 17040">"I believe that we should fight our battles here and now. We will not get a chance to surprise them again. Fighting our battle here means that fewer of the innocents of New Oceanus will be killed. I acknowledge that we will not be able to destroy or even decimate their army with such raids. But every draconid killed. every undead redeadified, and every elf freed is one less member of their army to harm our people, the people we have sworn to protect. Yes the battle will come to Hyrule. But every day we stay, every day we delay those evil bastards, is one more day the people of Hyrule have to prepare for an attack. (looking to Archon) I know that you would like to move these people away from this place. But the truth is, nowhere is safe. Where would you have us take them. Sylvanus? Where we postulate that 3 of the spirit blades are? That will not keep them safe. Anywhere we take them on this island, nay, on the ringed continent, will not keep them safe. It will only endanger the ones with whom we seek sanctuary. We are in a desperate situation, so we must respond with desperate tactics. I would see no innocent people harmed, but we must face the facts. We cannot save everyone. Some innocent people are going to die. My goal is to see that that number is as small as possible. And frankly, right now I only see two ways of doing that. We can stay here, and we can make sure it takes a damn long time for this army to get out of Oceanus and continue across Prydein. Or there is one other option. But it is based on a tenative theory backed only by prophesy, which as we all know, can be cryptic.We know that the king has sent most of his forces north, to battle the Bluestar. We know not their fate. But it worries me that there are 3 spiritblades to be reclaimed in those regions, and one of those worries me most. What if Moonblade keeps the Bluestar trapped in the frozen north. What if it is the power of Quarion's Wall? Should the forces of the west retrieve that blade, then we will surely not be able to stem the tide that will rush forth. Lest we forget, "North and West the Damned assemble, t’bring Doom to chosen kingdoms." What will we do if the hoards of the north are freed? And what shall we do if the Mansblade is brought under control of the west? Thus, my second plan would be to attempt to prevent the retrieval of the Moonblade, though I know not how we would do it, if we even could. Such a plan would mean leaving the people of New Oceanus, leaving the people of Prydein, to the army that we know is here. And I would not do that based on theory alone. So that leaves me with only one option. I will stay here and fight. I will fight, knowing that every day I do, every one of those bastards I kill, I am protecting the people of New Oceanus to the best of my abilities. I will not see Hyrule attacked while I can do something about it, here, and now! We have a chance here, an opportunity, one we're not likely to get again. I say we seize it, we seize it for all it's worth, and if we die in the process, at least we can say it was a damned good fight we faught. I will not see history repeat itself."</blockquote>

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