Achaean News
Re: Mhaldor and Evil
Written by: Brother Antonius Agarwaen, Sentaari Knight
Date: Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Addressed to: Sir Firey Lichlord, Knight of Horror
Firey,
After reading your post, I felt compelled to respond. I don't see the
need to criticise your grasp on the Achaean language. You can string a
sentence together, and that's all that matters. So, let's move on to the
important stuff...
"Evil is the strive for advancement. Would you look upon advancement as
a bad thing? The answer is very likely to be "no", which usually is the
correct answer."
Yes, I would look upon advancement as a bad thing, when said
"advancement" involves my death. Now tell me, in that last part, are you
saying that even as a Mhaldorian you can sometimes look upon advancement
as a bad thing?
"When they come to Shallam, they think they get help, however it's
different. Shallam might give some of the food, a place to be and that
stuff, but that will only keep them weak, they'll never succeed in
anything. Then Shallam wants the weak people to defend the city, however
how shall they defend the city when they cannot take down the attackers?
They cannot, instead of defending, they'll get their heads chopped off."
I've lived in Shallam since I was eighteen, and I'm now eighty-four.
I've proven to you, and many of your citymates, that I don't have a
problem defending myself or my home. And since I very rarely run out of
the necessary supplies to conduct this seemingly ever-lasting battle
against you, I'm going to assume I can provide for myself well enough
too.
"Forgiveness is for the weak, when a person fails or does anything
wrong, other weak people comes to comfort him/her or forgives them for
what they have done."
Well, contesting this point is just too easy, but I'll do it just for
fun... If forgiveness makes me weak, why do I seem to be physically, and
usually mentally, stronger than the average Mhaldorian? Obviously
forgiveness hasn't made me all that weak...
"As you might have noticed a lot of the decent fighters of Shallam is
ex-Mhaldorians, which is no surprise, because they have followed the
Truths of Evil."
As you obviously haven't noticed, this isn't true. Alot of our best
fighters have been Shallamese for most, if not all, of their lives.
Those who haven't generally came from cities other than Mhaldor.
"This is the only time I'll ever compliment Shallam, they're really good
to inflict pain upon, and when they complaint of what you do against
them (which they always do), you can just kill them again and then
you'll inflict more pain."
Simple response: Care to try?
"Thank you, Shallam, for letting me and Mhaldor inflict pain upon you
and make us stronger!"
Thank you, Mhaldor and allies, for giving me just short of 260
adventurer kills.
"So basically, following the Seven Truths of Evil -will- make you
stronger. No one can claim anything else, as it's been proven too many
times."
I can't argue against proof. However, it has also been proven that -not-
following the Seven Truths of Evil will also make you stronger.
In service,
Sir Antonius Agarwaen.
Penned by my hand on the 4th of Scarlatan, in the year 407 AF.
Re: Mhaldor and Evil
Written by: Brother Antonius Agarwaen, Sentaari Knight
Date: Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Addressed to: Sir Firey Lichlord, Knight of Horror
Firey,
After reading your post, I felt compelled to respond. I don't see the
need to criticise your grasp on the Achaean language. You can string a
sentence together, and that's all that matters. So, let's move on to the
important stuff...
"Evil is the strive for advancement. Would you look upon advancement as
a bad thing? The answer is very likely to be "no", which usually is the
correct answer."
Yes, I would look upon advancement as a bad thing, when said
"advancement" involves my death. Now tell me, in that last part, are you
saying that even as a Mhaldorian you can sometimes look upon advancement
as a bad thing?
"When they come to Shallam, they think they get help, however it's
different. Shallam might give some of the food, a place to be and that
stuff, but that will only keep them weak, they'll never succeed in
anything. Then Shallam wants the weak people to defend the city, however
how shall they defend the city when they cannot take down the attackers?
They cannot, instead of defending, they'll get their heads chopped off."
I've lived in Shallam since I was eighteen, and I'm now eighty-four.
I've proven to you, and many of your citymates, that I don't have a
problem defending myself or my home. And since I very rarely run out of
the necessary supplies to conduct this seemingly ever-lasting battle
against you, I'm going to assume I can provide for myself well enough
too.
"Forgiveness is for the weak, when a person fails or does anything
wrong, other weak people comes to comfort him/her or forgives them for
what they have done."
Well, contesting this point is just too easy, but I'll do it just for
fun... If forgiveness makes me weak, why do I seem to be physically, and
usually mentally, stronger than the average Mhaldorian? Obviously
forgiveness hasn't made me all that weak...
"As you might have noticed a lot of the decent fighters of Shallam is
ex-Mhaldorians, which is no surprise, because they have followed the
Truths of Evil."
As you obviously haven't noticed, this isn't true. Alot of our best
fighters have been Shallamese for most, if not all, of their lives.
Those who haven't generally came from cities other than Mhaldor.
"This is the only time I'll ever compliment Shallam, they're really good
to inflict pain upon, and when they complaint of what you do against
them (which they always do), you can just kill them again and then
you'll inflict more pain."
Simple response: Care to try?
"Thank you, Shallam, for letting me and Mhaldor inflict pain upon you
and make us stronger!"
Thank you, Mhaldor and allies, for giving me just short of 260
adventurer kills.
"So basically, following the Seven Truths of Evil -will- make you
stronger. No one can claim anything else, as it's been proven too many
times."
I can't argue against proof. However, it has also been proven that -not-
following the Seven Truths of Evil will also make you stronger.
In service,
Sir Antonius Agarwaen.
Penned by my hand on the 4th of Scarlatan, in the year 407 AF.