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<blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 3898341" data-attributes="member: 2268">Well, I can say one thing from experience by now...even if you set out to play the &quot;good guys&quot;, if you get yourself entangled in a political campaign that is filled with intrigues, and the whole thing is played even halfway realistically, you end up shades-of-grey AT BEST. My goody-two-shoes sun priest (Praios, god of the sun, law and order) ended up making deals with the hidden priesthood of thieves to get out of a city alive, faked a plague inside a city that was supposed to be besieged a few days later, caused another priest of his order to be set on fire with greek fire in order to flush out an enemy spy, and a year later had to sit as final witness on that priest's pyre as an example right before the schism of his church, actively stole court files from the royal archive to blame a corrupt advocate and cause him to be expelled from the guild, lose his hands and later be murdered by the criminals who had bought him. And those were just the high points in his career. Sure, he did a lot of good whenever he could, but there was a LOT of conscience buried under the rocks of practicality and politics.There's plenty of reasons why some good characters simply wouldn't like to touch politics with a 10 foot pole. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geron Raveneye, post: 3898341, member: 2268"] Well, I can say one thing from experience by now...even if you set out to play the "good guys", if you get yourself entangled in a political campaign that is filled with intrigues, and the whole thing is played even halfway realistically, you end up shades-of-grey AT BEST. My goody-two-shoes sun priest (Praios, god of the sun, law and order) ended up making deals with the hidden priesthood of thieves to get out of a city alive, faked a plague inside a city that was supposed to be besieged a few days later, caused another priest of his order to be set on fire with greek fire in order to flush out an enemy spy, and a year later had to sit as final witness on that priest's pyre as an example right before the schism of his church, actively stole court files from the royal archive to blame a corrupt advocate and cause him to be expelled from the guild, lose his hands and later be murdered by the criminals who had bought him. And those were just the high points in his career. Sure, he did a lot of good whenever he could, but there was a LOT of conscience buried under the rocks of practicality and politics. There's plenty of reasons why some good characters simply wouldn't like to touch politics with a 10 foot pole. :lol: [/QUOTE]

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