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The Theran Guide to Cleaning House ---------------------------------- I do believe Thera has turned into a bunch of busily cleaning housewives. Not pointing any fingers, mind you: it's been an endless "Ooh! Let's eradicate you... And you, and yes of course the gnomes, we can't forget the gnomes!" kind of deal since as far back as I can remember, and yes, it goes one side to the other, blah blah, so forth and so on. However. Do you remember in the last Mystique when Torkalen described me as entering a "furious cleaning frenzy"? According to him, (and I swear I didn't!) in my blissful rearranging, I chucked out the good things as well as the bad--apparently, I threw away two Heralds whom I'd never met. I suppose of course I can't say whether they were good or bad Heralds, from my ignorance, but I prefer to consider others good until they do something absolutely ridiculous that allows me the delight of laughing at them. That's how to go at things: let them make fools of themselves, and then point and giggle to all your friends. I don't think anyone could compare me, a bumbling bard, to those glorious Knights in Shining Armor (particularly since they don't do much tidying about the house--er, Castle), but my goodness. In a way, they are exactly like me, sweeping every evil out the doorstep of Life without giving them a chance to speak! Without getting to know them! I know those steely Crusaders like to sit around and talk nonstop for hours and hours, I don't think ANYONE's not seen em pottering about at North Square at least once or twice in their lives. But why won't they talk to an entire third of Thera's populace? Is it because they've found that their group of friends is so witty! that no one else! in Thera! could possibly best them, and therefore it's "Look! A mouse!" and all them cats go flying after this one, or that one, merely based on his or her INHERITED alignment? Or is it that there's just something Wrong about evils, something they can't quite place their fingers on but don't like (or something they CAN put their fingers on but just don't like) that gives them the perfect right to pounce on them any time of day? Since when did Knights turn into the Lightwalker version of Legion? (Or what Legion used to be?) More importantly, why are they treating evils like I treat Kailya's mushrooms?? Yes, perhaps they do go about things a little different from the rest of us...yes, perhaps they have an innate morbidity that is kinda nasty at times, and yes, a lot of the time they do go around killing people and posing a danger to Thera. It's all true! But look at the rest of us. Look at Warlords. Disemboweling their enemies, making necklaces out of fingers? Tell me that's not morbid. Look at Justice. They have poles up their backsides, poles that they whip out occasionally (ouch!) to whap wrongdoers with. (almost-as-ouch!) Tell me that's not being different. Hell, look at Legion....never mind, where are they? (Hello? Yoohoo?) Now look at the Knights. They're going around killing people and posing a danger to all the evils. And all the neutrals that get in their way. And maybe even other Lightwalkers, only they won't actually fight them, oh no, they'll just toss em out of their halls like yesterday's trash. Well, I doff my cap to you all, Thera. Stryth bless ya. Scribed by Vanisse, Chronicler of Heralds. |
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