On 10/20/2012 9:20 PM, hcarteau_at_... wrote:
> Is it possible to "purge" them of vadeli influences? Everything's possible. Now that would be some Quest.
There are several solutions that I can think of.
- "Kill them all". Morally despicable and highly impractical. I
daresay some Fonritan Rulers have come to believe this is the only
possible solution and are active plotting towards this end. They are
unlikely to stop at just wiping out the Fonritans as they are even more
suspicious and afraid of the non-Fonritans.
- "Send in the Knowledge Assassins!" It has been done before for the
EWF and the God Learners. But I'm inclined to think it won't work for
several reasons a) It's too neat a solution b) Zzabur couldn't do it
and c) the Knowledge Assassins didn't go after the Fonritans even though
the latter were elf-haters who lived right next door.
- "A New God for a New Order!" You know the script. The Heroes
discover a new deity whose worship will sweep away the poisonous
doctrines of the Vadeli and inaugurate a Just and Virtuous Fonrit. What
could possible go wrong? Nothing except that it's been tried before
repeatedly throughout Fonritan history. A new faith erupts armed with
paradisal promises. At first, it sweeps all before it, then it suffers
setbacks, few and minor ones at first, more and major ones later such
that its support collapses and the Vadeli wisdom transforms it into just
another Fonritan cult. We can even name some of these cults: Yran,
Seseine, Katele, Abiding Book etc.
- "Down the Rabbit Hole!" While Fonrit is blighted by the use of
Vadeli insights, they do not use them freely. Their use is always
carried out with a great deal of reservation and deliberation by the
rulers. What if this was the wrong approach to take? What if the
Vadeli insights far from being evil truths were in fact morally neutral
and the Vadeli simply decided to be wicked? By embracing wholeheartedly
these revelations, an aspiring hero could find a solution for Fonrit.
--Peter Metcalfe