A thought for this past Feast

If the Nobility took the time to explain every single action to everyone before it was acted upon, we'd still be explaining who Balfurous was to some people.

The information is available. The Scholar's table is open to all, and Belegchand regularly gives a Chroniclerite Mass that explains the current happenings in the town. There is no attempt to withhold information from anyone, unless it would aid our enemies by revealing it.

If you are concerned about such things, get involved. Do not wait for things to be personally delivered to you, for they will not be. Become the champion of others, and make sure the information is distributed, if you feel that is has not adequately been.

We need people to take an active role in our survival, not objecting to how it is discussed and decided upon, without contributing.

Brother Aldric, I challenge you to step up, and become the common man's liaison to those who do the research. Become the solution you wish to see.

Lord Gideon,

I accept thine challenge.

If the commoners are to have a liaison, I suggest we allow them to decide on their own.

As to accepting the blandishments of others, it is a common fault in Travance as well as elsewhere. As to time, I would have found the manner in which people decided to believe or disbelieve Klarington's assertions to be amusing, had the consequences not been pottentially so dire.

Nalick,

Then you don't understand bearing the burden of the results of the actions you take.

In regards to what you said, Nalick, I've thought about that, too.

The way I figure it, let's hypothetically say that you could go back in time and permanently change something you dislike. You do so. However, despite the fact that something changed, you may still remember the fact that something was wrong, i.e. you still remember the unchanged time. In that way, what happened in the past still lives on. As what our time-travelling friend told some of us this past Feast, "Time ends when there is nothing left to experience it." It would not be an outlandish jump of logic to say that if one has experienced something, then it has in fact happened.

Let us also say that there was something or someone out there who was unhappy with your decision to change the past. They then travel through time in order to fix the fact you went back in time to change it, so things are exactly the way they were even before you changed things, to the point where you don't even recognize anything happened. Even though you have no recollection of travelling through time, the entity that rectified your actions does. It might not know what or why you did so, but it recognized that something happened.

The only way I presume no party involved would remember or experience any measure of time manipulation would be through paradox, and we have all seen firsthand with the Hollow Song how disastrous such temporal catastrophes can be.

Our actions, no matter how small or large, make imprints that ripple eternally across the fabric of time. Nothing can be undone, only covered up.

***Not Caelvan***

Those who commit the atrocities of trying to change fate, especially of an event that has already occurred, are worse than those who most consider to be the worst scum on Arawyn. The gods have mapped out the fate of the world for a reason. It is not our place to question their reason. Nor is it our place as mortals to try to change the path they have decided.

Merikh Tazham
Priest of Death