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High Inquisitor Darklaw ([personal profile] inquisitoring) wrote in [community profile] genessia2015-01-20 08:18 pm

1st Trial [video]

[It's been a couple of days since her arrival and Darklaw has been industriously working to set herself into lodgings. The video opens in a small sparsely furnished room. From the look from of the room itself it seems to be in Fayren. There's a woman in view who looks mostly serious but there's a faint smile playing on her features as if she's rather amused by the whole affair.]

Common wisdom states that there is nothing beyond the walls of Labyrinthia. As such, it would seem that this collection of cities should be considered the deepest of heresies against the Storyteller. That this magic that could bring any here on a whim flies in the face of His Story.

[She stops for a brief second, her expression becoming more solemn somewhat.]

However, upon investigation I have discovered a few things that lead me to believe different. The major one being the recent infestation of dragons. [She's spent a few hours going over the more recent entries. She shakes her head.] Any member of the Inquisition would know what the significance of that would be. Dragons and black cats are the heralds of the gravest evil: the Great Witch Bezella, mother to all other witches and bringer of disaster.

[There's no small amount of loathing as she says that name.]

As such, as scant evidence as that is, I will see to it that I shall help bring the Storyteller's justice here as well. I am the High Inquisitor Darklaw, however little that title means here. Even without the Knights at my back, I shall try to do my best to serve this new found town until the Story states that I return.

[With that, she reaches out and turns off the video quickly.]
what_is_a_man: (Aria of Sorrow // You don't say)

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[personal profile] what_is_a_man 2015-01-21 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Tell me, miss... "Darklaw" was it? Have you ever had any experience in the construction of walls yourself?
Edited 2015-01-21 20:35 (UTC)
what_is_a_man: (Circle of the Moon // Do go on.)

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[personal profile] what_is_a_man 2015-01-21 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Then you should know full well that it is rather impossible to construct walls from one side alone. If these walls of yours truly were at the edge of existence, it would be nigh impossible to construct them and have them remain anything more than flimsy piles of brick.
nobugs: (focused)

[personal profile] nobugs 2015-01-21 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
How dare you say that dragons are heralds of the gravest evil? [His expression was angry, to say the least.]
what_is_a_man: (Aria of Sorrow // You don't say)

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[personal profile] what_is_a_man 2015-01-21 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
And yet that is another point of contention. How can one person be the mother of all witches? This place should be proof enough that this assertion is false. We come from a myriad worlds, each with their own incarnations of witches, monsters, and gods.

The only thing an absolute statement proves is the foolishness of the author.
what_is_a_man: (Circle of the Moon // Do go on.)

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[personal profile] what_is_a_man 2015-01-21 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, pardon me, o great and illustrious Inquisitor.

[Can you feel the sarcasm in that? Because he's trying to make it as palpable as possible.]

Just know this. For every zealot your Storyteller inspires, there are five who open their eyes to the truth; that truth being that no single being holds absolute authority over anything. You may have signed your mind over to a tyrant, and willingly so, but that makes your Storyteller no different than me.

Over the centuries, I've inspired plenty of zealots and fanatics, all willingly giving their very souls to me, and without the use of magic or charms. Your Storyteller's only true gift is one of charisma. Nothing more, nothing less.
what_is_a_man: (Harmony of Despair)

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[personal profile] what_is_a_man 2015-01-21 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
And what choice do they have? Because they have powers others don't, they are instantly branded by the masses as something foreign, something less than they. Your great Storyteller could have offered them asylum should they refrain from using their magic against the commonfolk but instead chose to burn them to the ground.

And just how many of these witches were truly witches, and not just some poor soul who got on the wrong side of an influential twit? After all, magic is not something that can be forced, and thus any attempt to make a witch incriminate themselves through magic would only be met with denial to perform. If that was truly the only evidence you could use, you wouldn't be so proud of your body count. So tell me, how many innocents have you watched burn? I'd wager far more than those guilty of anything.
nobugs: (focused)

[personal profile] nobugs 2015-01-21 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It would depend on the dragon. [He still couldn't stop his glare. Perhaps it was because of people like her why his brothers had to go through such a harsh time in their villages.] I do not know where your story comes from, but I will not let you sully the name of the dragons.
nobugs: (confused)

[personal profile] nobugs 2015-01-21 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[A witch again? This seemed to be more common than he thought.] What has happened beforehand? I know that not every dragon is generous enough in wanting to let humans live despite their misconducts.
what_is_a_man: (Rondo of Blood)

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[personal profile] what_is_a_man 2015-01-21 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I should be able to burn every human at the stake for the offense of speaking ill of another? For those with the power, to have it and not use it is just as painful as having your tongue cut from your mouth. It is a form of communication between the practitioner and the world around them.

As for alternatives, I assure you there are much darker, much more ancient, much more insidious beings out there than witches. For at the very least, witches do not inherently see humans as food. The same cannot be said for those that lurk between the worlds, beyond the veils that were never meant to be pulled back. Beings like the very one you speak to now.

No, as noble as you try to sound, your guilt is not just yours alone. It is every bit as much the responsibility of those that put you in your place of power, those that follow you, those that trust your will to be that which takes the lives of others. But most of all, it is the fault of your grand Storyteller filling the heads of you pathetic mortals with his lies.

I do not claim to be a good man, or even a man. But I have seen where the true blame lies. Blame your gods for allowing such things to exist. After all, what loving God would allow such suffering?
nobugs: (sad)

[personal profile] nobugs 2015-01-21 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Whatever happened - it must have been a great catastrophe. Still- his gaze was firm.] Even if a witch used a dragon and brought great harm to your people - that doesn't make them necessarily a sign of impeding doom. King Hiryuu loved humans despite being betrayed by them.
what_is_a_man: (Aria of Sorrow // You don't say)

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[personal profile] what_is_a_man 2015-01-22 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
And there's the crux of it all, isn't it? The gods you humans look up to, regardless of what form or name, claim to be impartial and love all, but they all play favorites. Be it a daughter, only begotten son, or some lover they picked up.

They forsake the rest of the world in favor of one. How can that be called justice? How can that be called good?
what_is_a_man: (Aria of Sorrow // You don't say)

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[personal profile] what_is_a_man 2015-01-22 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
If a man rules over the confines of existence, as there isn't supposed to be anything beyond those walls, what else could he be?
what_is_a_man: (Aria of Sorrow // You don't say)

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[personal profile] what_is_a_man 2015-01-22 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, yes, so you've said. But I'm largely uninterested in "common wisdom" as it says beings like myself are an impossibility. I'm much more curious as to your wisdom... or do you truly follow this "story" as blindly as you let on?

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