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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Canaan" data-source="post: 4558717" data-attributes="member: 40239">Jaroth -- The DiscussionJaroth listens to everyone intently and sighs.Thank you all for listening to what I had so say and the reasons for my decision.  Thank you also for your friendship.  I am saddened, however, that some of you have mistaken my meaning.  Perhaps it is because I am not very good at admitting weakness.  The truth is, I do not want to consign any of you to my fate.  I care about you too much.  I do not wish my burden on any of you.  I am prepared to walk this journey alone.  I do not wish to do so, because I agree that I cannot do it alone.  And I would not want the Book to make me a vessel of its evil.  That is why it is important to me that Vadric and Anniston are in agreement with this decision and choose to come with me.  They must use their intuition and their gifts to discover any machinations by the Book or other forces.  In many ways, only they can center my thinking, should the forces of darkness try to influence me.****Vadric, please conduct your divination.  I think that would be most helpful.  I do not disparage the Light in my dialogue, only its wordly servants who make the decisions for the Church as a whole.  I do not include those like you and Anniston in that category, nor do I include most of the faithful.  But I fear that the faithful will be lead astray by the Church's leaders.****Vorian, we have discussed this before with Lady Vera.  The magicks necessary for such a feat are beyond me.  Only magicks of the highest valence could possibly effect such a feat.  and it may require transvalent magick to do so.My divination revealed that destruction, no matter where or when or how, will result in all being lost.  My divination did not explain how that would occur or why, but I am simply not willing to risk it by assuming that destroying the Book in some remote area will lead to a different result.  Would you take such a risk with the lives and souls of the entire world?I do not view taking the book to the Fortress of Balance as hiding it away.  We would be giving it to the forces of Balance, who are made up of both the Light and the Dark.  We are therefore giving the Book over to both the Light and the Dark.  Neither will have any reason to go to war over it.  In many ways, it is the only solution that involves no bloodshed.  Besides, based on what I know of the guardians in the Fortress of Balance, the Drakkar would not stand a chance against them.****Bertrand, we were talking about trying to redeem the spirit within the Book.  But I since learned that the spirit is unredeemable in the sense that we were discussing.  It can never become a part of the Light.  It is not within its nature to do so.  At best, the spirit can obtain a balance, but it will be near impossible to make that happen whilst we and it are being assaulted by evil.  That is the basis for my analysis in this regard.  I believe the Fortress to be a better location for that transformation to occur.  As for DeSion, I realize he could be a problem.  But this matter is beyond he and his family, would you agree?  I suppose he might object.  I suppose if he does and we do not acquiesce to his wishes, he may be upset or angy or even violent.  We can only take things one step at a time.  Know however that I am commited to this path and provided the rest of you agree, should  he stand in its way, we will have to act appropriately.OOC: I think I addressed everyone's issues.  If not, it was unintentional.  Let me know if there is an issue I failed to address. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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