But he's a young man. There is time for him to see the error of his ways. I knew his mother once, you know, and I cannot see how she would not teach him better. It might be some form of rebellion.
[ ness is not not thinking about arranging some kind of visit to the gallows for aubertinβperhaps his mother has been induced to make a donation to riftwatch, and wants to see her money is put to good useβwhere either he is forced to sit through a long lecture or he ends up with a broken finger. he seems like the type to approach a griffon without thinking it through, it'd be easy to arrangeβ ]
The bitch of it all is he isn't even a bad writer. He could be putting these talents to such use as a satirist!
Oh, well... I assume so? Not where I was raised, weβtheyβwere all a bunch of academics, in essence, they understood the value of different perspectives. Candlekeep kept high magical texts passed down from the greatest wizards of the ages, but we kept the journals of farmers, too.
But, outside of Candlekeepβpeople are people. Whatever people think here, someone probably thought in FaerΓ»n, too.
Curiosity. I like to know where people are coming from.
And it's interesting, isn't it? All of these varied worlds full of new magic and new gods and new technology, but none of them I have heard about yet have figured out how to avoid having underclasses. I can't decide if it's depressing that no one has a solution or reassuring we are not uniquely awful here. But it's interesting either way.
A pessimist would call it humanoid nature, I supposeβeveryone wants to be better than someone. But then, everyone would also like to imagine that they are not at fault for their foibles, and that injustice is beyond their grasp to correct, so that they don't have to inconvenience themselves making the attempt.
As a matter of philosophy, it is interesting, but I admit I am no philosopher.
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[ The smile is audible. Good reaction. ]
But he's a young man. There is time for him to see the error of his ways. I knew his mother once, you know, and I cannot see how she would not teach him better. It might be some form of rebellion.
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[ ness is not not thinking about arranging some kind of visit to the gallows for aubertinβperhaps his mother has been induced to make a donation to riftwatch, and wants to see her money is put to good useβwhere either he is forced to sit through a long lecture or he ends up with a broken finger. he seems like the type to approach a griffon without thinking it through, it'd be easy to arrangeβ ]
The bitch of it all is he isn't even a bad writer. He could be putting these talents to such use as a satirist!
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Did you have this sort of attitude toward people where you come from? Not you, I meanβbut did other people?
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But, outside of Candlekeepβpeople are people. Whatever people think here, someone probably thought in FaerΓ»n, too.
Why?
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And it's interesting, isn't it? All of these varied worlds full of new magic and new gods and new technology, but none of them I have heard about yet have figured out how to avoid having underclasses. I can't decide if it's depressing that no one has a solution or reassuring we are not uniquely awful here. But it's interesting either way.
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As a matter of philosophy, it is interesting, but I admit I am no philosopher.