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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 396159" data-attributes="member: 4303">Of the Rings of Power and the Third AgeI've always found Sauron a rather sympathetic character. A classic tragic figure. This is kind of beside the point, though.I'll try and get Lombard to post on this thread, as his perspective is somewhat different to mine. But some things should be borne in mind.1) Eadric is Lawful Good.  As has been mentioned before in the story, the principles of Law and Good are not always mutually supportive - in fact, they can be downright antagonistic to one another. A natural dialectic exists between them.2) Oronthon is not only the final arbiter of what Lawful Good is, he actually defines it. It is not asmuch a question of Oronthon being expected to abide by an abstract set of principles, but rather "Lawful Good" - in terms of this campaign, at least -  being a reflection of Oronthon himself.MasterOfHeaven - your viewpoint has existential merit, but it is a relatively modern phenomenon. It is based on a post-Enlightenment, intellectual interpretation of reality which places the individual at the centre of his or her own ethical and moral universe. I won't get into the debate why this viewpoint - i.e. some brand of secular humanism - is actually no less "faith" based than any other.Eadric is more complex than you give him credit for, however.1) He recognizes (now, although not previously) that Oronthon himself is fraught with his own dilemmas regarding how to act in the world - although obviously, the Deity's apprehension of reality is infinitely larger and more complex than his own.2) He trusts that Oronthon's judgement is still clearer/wider/deeper than his own.3) He understands that in order to come to a mystical relationship with Oronthon, surrender of his sense of 'Self' is necessary.Eadric's reality is not your reality, or mine - or Mostin's, or Nwm's, for that matter. All look at the world through a different lens. If you assert that your interpretation of reality has more merit than Eadric's, then you are doing precisely the same thing that he is.Being a transmetaphysical multiperspectivist, Nehael would make no such assertions, of course.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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