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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 4172936" data-attributes="member: 48692">My version of Iuz found, both as he was growing up, and now as an adult, that people all but expected him to be evil, being the spawn of a demon.  He figures that, if everyone thinks he's going to be evil based on his heritage, he might as well fulfill their expectations.  Here we have a strange twist on the whole chicken-and-egg question: Has Iuz turned out evil because of his demonic heritage, or because people expected him to be evil because of his heritage?  Could he have chosen to be good, overcoming his dark heritage and fighting against it, instead of openly embracing and accepting it?  Why did he make the choices he did?  Iuz's childhood was not traumatic or abusive, at least not any more than you would expect for a lad growing up in the Northern Reaches under the auspices of a wealthy nobleman.  He never suffered grief, or trauma, or abuse, or anything else that often makes people into villains.  He openly chose to embrace his demonic heritage, and everything that would logically come from being the son of Grazz't and Iggwilv.  And yet, would he have been inspired to take up this mantle if the people around him had not muttered about his demonic siring?  He might have become a warlord, founded one of the Bandit Kingdoms, or otherwise remained a local power, if he had not been inspired to attempt to conquer and destroy the Flanaess, submerging it in a river of blood.  But had the tales of his being the son of a demon been mere insults and innuendo, would he have had the drive and ability to conquer an empire in fire and steel, much less ascend to godhood?  Whether Iuz is a Dark Lord because of his nature, or because of how he was nurtured, is a question that even the Lord of Pain himself may not be able to answer.</blockquote>

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