Good and evil are not relative things. They are codified here in Achaea. What they are elsewhere is of no concern. This is why there are, for instance, Gods of Evil and Light, and Chaos and Darkness, etc. These are not relative concepts, but objective ones. I laugh whenever I hear Ashtan trying to pretend it is not evil, for instance. This is a city, after all, that openly supports the running of a place that exists to murder small children, and also the city that tore down a place built to rescue the children. You pick on the Church endlessly for "teaming" yet I do not see what teaming has to do with good and evil. If a murderer is running around murdering people, what does it matter if you take him down by yourself or with a group? The important thing is to protect the innocent.

Likewise, it is hypocritical of the Church to complain about teaming when you team too. Honour, unlike good and evil, is an individual concept, and is relative. If your personal honour dictates that you don't team, then don't team. What does it matter if that causes you to lose battles that you might have won otherwise? Unlike those in Ashtan and Hashan, you claim to operate from a moral standpoint. Life WILL be harder when you operate morally. There is no question about it. But the entire point of morality is to follow that morality for the sake of morality, not for the sake of what it will get you.

I am just trying to inject a little rationality into these "discussions". I have no preference for any of the factions in Achaea, but I will say that I find it rather inappropriate to introduce concepts such as relative morality into a world so clearly based on times that would be called "ancient" in another world, and in which there are Gods that specifically and definitely represent these concepts.

Penned by my hand on the 22nd of Daedalan, in the year 234 AF.