I think you have a lot to learn about power.

In this case, the lesson I suspect you will learn, and learn quickly, is that what you believe, what you can prove, all of that matters less than what those who wield more power than you believe, and what drives them to action. Insulting the Gods of those more powerful than you is a fast way to an early grave -- and, of course, insulting Them publicly and directly has rarely won anyone a longer lifespan. Picking -any- fight head-on with a much stronger foe on that foe's terms is rarely the path foward to success.

As to what They want, toward what ends They move: Their minds are as unknowable to us as ours would be to a stirge within the Great Rock who has never seen the sun and who knows the world only by its sounds and the flickering shadows cast, occasionally, upon the walls by light reflected off of the quartz and azurite found within. Looking upon what drives Them with mortal eyes, with clouded perception riddled with weakness, is not a winning prospect.

Not only that, I believe you'll have a difficult time attracting a crowd when those who stand with you spend most of their time glancing nervously above for any indication of sudden, unexpected lightning.

Nevertheless, I think you've hit upon one key point: wisdom suggests that we ought to be suspicious of those with power who offer it or its rewards so benevolently to the world around us, often selflessly, because a price that isn't extracted now will often be paid later, with interest. But power always exacts its toll. You may claim it, you may hold it, you may even use it to your own advantage, but it belongs to no man, and it runs screaming from those who believe it owed to them by dint of birth, circumstance, or any other uncontrollable, arbitrary notion of entitlement.

Indeed, Mhaldor's interest in the Truths is understandable because they are, as noted, the Truths of this world, of Creation, and the austerity and effort and focus exacted to remain upon such a path is the cost of the blood they are written in. Ashtan's interest to Chaos and Targossas's ties to Devotion are understandable because they shape and subjugate powers foreign to the nature of this world to their own whims to gain a foothold and an advantage here for their own ideologies. Understandable, of course, because Ashtan craves ascension and Targossas craves dominion, and those ends justify the means, in their eyes.

You want to remake the world in your image, yet you speak with no authority and are in no position to exercise any power at all. What leverage will you bring to the table to prevent everyone from simply ignoring anything you choose to throw up upon the public boards?

Penned by my hand on the 3rd of Daedalan, in the year 769 AF.