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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Syltorian" data-source="post: 3597106" data-attributes="member: 17406">Sorry for the double post. Yours got in while I was typing, so I saw it too late.It's also canon that the shifters were killed because Lycanthropes pointed the templars that way. "Clever lycanthropes fanned the puritans' paranoia toward the shifters, and these mistrustful folk massacred hundreds of shifters before someone could prove to them that shifters did not carry the curse." That is a direct quote from the Dragonshard on that subject. They were not that much misguided by their own beliefs, though they were inclined to be misguided by their enemies. That probably doesn't matter to the killed shifters, but most of the Templars would probably be horrified once they found out how they had been had. Committed not by Thranes, but by Aundairian converts out for revenge; at least, according to Keith's Baker. It's not quite official, unfortunately. No, but they still carry a taint. Lycanthropy is a curse that changes the soul, for good or evil, but it taints the soul. An afflicted lycanthrope has her alignment and behaviour, thought patterns and feelings changed. The Church has now accepted that good lycanthropes should not be killed, but the situation has changed too: afflicted lycanthropes do not spread their curse anymore, and good lycanthropes do not fall into evil due to some unexplained, but undeniably existing cause. Possible, but it was not Church policy. And probably everyone who would have been caught doing that would be defrocked and/or asked to undergo penance or atonement. I also find it more likely that the changelings who were killed were murdered by frenzied and panicked peasants, rather than Silver Flame templars. Not quite: while there are good lycanthropes, werecreatures still occupy a much higher position on the Silver Flame hierarchy of evil than humans do, and believing in a different god does not even make the scale, unless that god is evil. By the doctrine of the time, the Lycanthrope's souls were tainted and de facto, however regrettably, barred from joining the Flame. Humans, however infidel, can be converted and, if they then go on to live a virtuous life, join the Flame after death. So, killing the lycanthrope is not going to lose the Flame a soul, he cannot join it anyway. Killing a human, however, is similar as taking a virtuous templar's sword away. It weakens the position of the Flame, it weakens the defenses of the world against evil.</blockquote>

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