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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3482417" data-attributes="member: 7280">Well, I think it's sort of unfair to say that she has some sort of "deep seated lust for personal power", I can see how it might appear that way. She really is a populist, after all, from a sort of "empowerment of the people" political background back in Cyre running as the countercurrent to the monarchy (with a certain element of cynicism within that during the war, considered from the fact, you know, their "People's" political movement would greatly benefit her noble kinsmen.) As for the "large magics" bit...well, she's never particularly exercised that essence in the adventure. She's tossed an awful lot of Reserve feat gobs and zappers, and she's displayed an almost religious adherence to Mirror Images of herself that I think kind of runs nicely with the whole "Janis theme. Especially, you know, since Janis is pretty close to Janus.Janis liked Selase because the whole Blood of Vol thing runs deep with her own distrust of authority. Conversely, no matter how likable the rest of the group is, most of them are A) Thranish priests, beholden to Thranish masters or B) Cyran loyalists. She's got her guard up. Cyran loyalists probably killed a lot of her family before the Mourning took most of the ones that were left, and Daellin isn't exactly cuddly himself. And anyone with any sense wouldn't soon forget that Khensu and the rest are still a group of Thane inquisitors (or could be) that outnumber everyone else before they start opening up.As for nihilism? That's definitely and precisely Janis. Every new breath is the death of the old one and all that. And besides, it lends her a certain sort of crotchety charm.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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