Greetings friend!

I am glad you took to civil and intelligent observation of my rhetoric.
And though you do not mince words, I suspect you nonetheless both
misunderstand me and the events that have most recently taken place,
though through no fault of your own. Permit me to explain.

I would never claim the 7 Truths of Evil to be truth in the sense you
state. I do not cite such truths because I believe them, but rather
because my audience believes them. As one would know from reading me
bardic essay on the nature or reason, to do otherwise is illogical. It
is like using the Holy Codex to prove something to a Sartanite. Truth is
that which follows from truth, or that which is assumed to be true. As
such, I take the 7 Truths of Evil to be nothing more than assumptions,
but it makes sense to use them in discussion with the followers of evil
as I have also used the Holy Codex in discussions with my Church
friends.

More to the point of recent events, I would say they show that evil, or
perhaps just Xerimor specifically, is indeed weak when faced with Chaos,
which was the point I tried to give. Take for example the fact that
Xerimor, in order to have a horde of slaves, had to reject the Chaos
Lords and instead turn to something far easier to control: the evil
daemons that so easily capitulated when put under pressure. Xerimor, and
perhaps no mortal, is capable of enslaving such a powerful, free-willed
force as the Chaos Lords. (And no, Occultists do not enslave them; they
barter.)

Also take for example the fact it took an army of Mhaldorans, attacking
under stealth, to subvert one Chaos Lord (versus one mortal subverting
an entire army of feeble daemons), and all their work was quickly and
easily undone by the act of one Golgotha. And note that though Chaos was
able to save its own with the act of one, it again took an army of
Mhaldorans and also the aid of righteous essence, the bane of evil, to
do the same for Xerimor.

And then I point to an act I personally witnessed in which Mhaldor
quaked in fear before Chaos. When they were attempting to use a Church
traitor to their nefarious ends, I infiltrated their city, passing the
inept guards seeking to slay me, and found Mhaldor with the ritual
unguarded by totems or city soldiers, as if their security planner Stee
had the strength of mind equal to that of a troll. And so I walked in
unarmed and beseeched Golgotha to deliver the lost soul from evil, and
Golgotha did hear this plea. Thus a great maw opened in the ground to
save the traitor, and all the hordes of evil shuddered before it. So
paralyzed in fear that Golgotha had perhaps returned to claim them as
the next victim of His wrath that not one lifted a finger as I made my
exodus.

And so I ask, where are the slaves from Chaos? When has the will of
Golgotha been overcome by your people? If evil is so strong, why did
they settle on enslaving beings that buckle so easily as a buckawn with
no backbone rather than a true force of power, like the Chaos Lords?
Clearly it is because evil is not the dominant strength, unable to
truely enslave even one aspect of Chaos. And so evil settles for
weak-willed daemons while trumpeting the hollow victory of evil
enslaving evil.


-Dr. Saruman.

Penned by my hand on the 14th of Lupar, in the year 318 AF.