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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2275257" data-attributes="member: 7280">That's fine with Mavic though, since he wouldn't particularly care whether or not everyone hated his guts if there were giants to kill though he'd be disgusted at anyone who let their personal feelings get in the way a chance to kill giants. To be certain, Mavic isn't there to watch Reivik's back. It's just not likely to come to mind as important all of the time.People who take time off to spend valuable training time wasted on learning ancient dwarven  chants aren't anyone Mavic would particularly pick as his first choice either. <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" /> The singing and the poem writing?  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> Mavic probably feels generous that he's letting Reivik come along, whether or not that's really the case at all. Reivik's probably the embedded journalist to Mavic.Either he's less important than a lot of giants in which case he's proved himself by taking a bunch out or he's important enough that death would just be an interruption while loyal Sterich citizens recognized his greatness and raised him. He's not a cleric, but he is as devout follower of Wee Jas. Even in death he'd be proving and testing himself.If you can't wrap your head around it any other way, consider that my creepy cohort is the cleric. If she's the only high enough level cleric around to travel with then maybe Reivik can come down from his high tactical standards long enough to recognize that she's useful whether or not Reivik thinks that Mavic is a ticking time bomb personality.Anyways, if Mavic were less flawed then he'd be less interesting to get inside his head. Basically I think he's a nutjob on a teetering precarious balance right now. Either he slips deeper into the darkness, or he somehow comes to grips with everything. I mean really, eventually the war is over, right? And basically Mavic's got a bunch of ideals that he doesn't exactly follow and that he's pushed aside in favor of expediency. I figure he either goes NE and ends up the lonely guy raising zombies to fix his tower, or he eventually repents and goes LG on everyone.</blockquote>

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