Do not unleash yet another EVIL

Travance,

I have received this letter from Argyle who is currently not in the Proper and asked me to tack it onto this board for all to see. I believe all should see and read what he has to say.

A few of us opposed the creation of Bloodtide back in the day to defeat Balfurious. We desperately came up with alternatives and kept getting shut down. Hearts got ripped out, the few were silenced, a great evil was created to defeat a greater evil. I beg you all, don't do it again...

Miranda is EVIL. Unleashing her will not only destroy the weave, it will let loose an evil of a magnitude we can't even imagine. I will yet again scream my protest until my voice is gone. I heed you to please listen this time.

Angel,

I'm torn with these times, shall we cast aside all we hold dear and allow Miranda to be freed?

I have always embodied the vow to serve the people's Greater Good. I treasure my Sworn Oath, to not compromise in the face of death against our foe.

Since my first night in the Proper, I have been cautioned of Miranda and her being of Black Sorcery, Dark Divine, and the source of power to the dark paladins. Her being is the essence of chaos and evil in Arawyn. The Weave itself was created to host her as a prison.

The Light Clergy, paladins, witch hunters, mages, and those rumored with Vims Blood have served to reinforce the importance of her imprisonment for Ages. At what point do we throw it all away, and completely fail our duties to the People? Is this akin to Bloodtide, our only choice?

There are those whom will stop at nothing to see the Weave remain intact. That any attempts to free Miranda shall be met with violence and death.

We all worked to free Fiona, that being in the best interests of the People. Those interests aren't clear to me now, shall we bestow all manner of faith and hope in Fiona, to shield Arawyn from her sister's wrath and malice?

There are talks and rumors of Civil War, and this state of discourse can't find its way from uneasy waters.

Forces have tried to stop the coming storm of war for many moons. I shall digress, the War for the Soul of Arawyn is coming, but the Battle for the Soul of Travance is at hand. I fear some are naive enough to think they are unaffected, the battle lines have already been drawn.

So marks the End of an Age, will we find the strength to create a new? We do not yet know all there is to be gained or lost in these stark days. One thing has been made clear, not all shall be alive to see their end.

I shall remain in services to the People. I take hope in that I am not alone.

I ask you to pray for me as you do for us all. May Valos guide your way.

Strength Duty Mission Faith

-Auggie

May the light guide our paths and keep us all safe.
With love and respect,
Angeliana

I respect your virtue, and more then understand your ethical dilemma, but to my perception you do not understand what is at stake. There is no soul to lose if this war is lost. There are no Gods, and no afterlife beyond this if we fail-- no hereafter for you or your living and long passed loved ones.

Fiona puts her word toward freeing her antithesis-- she who stands the most to lose and she who is wisest in this matter. If she is not unleashed and we fail every man woman and child to ever walk Arawyn will cease to have ever existed.

If Miranda is unleashed, succeeds in stopping the nulls, and goes onto reap a great and terrible evil onto the realm-- We may die fighting in defiance to those who would see us undone and face the Gods as men and women who did not yield.

This is not a battle for thousands of lives, or a fight against extinction,
This is judgment day and the Anastazi will not silence us,

Robert Tzaareth

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We know this is our end but no one has determined the actual cause. Who is to say that we could find another way to trap the null but freeing Miranda is what will actually cause Arawyn to die. As always we pick one danger, one side and assume that is the correct path. All sides need to be looked at, as do all possibilities, for in the end I do not want to live through the null just to die by Miranda causing so much evil that the world ends anyway

Cease your fear-mongering by spreading lies as the ultimate truth. You are no better than the Glommites, than this "evil" you so despise. Nothing you have written here is based in fact.

As long as Fiona is about, and Miranda not, the world will come to ruin. If you plan to oppose us, you had best come up with a plan to force the Greater Good back into her own prison. I doubt she will go willingly as long as you flounder about, failing to save the people in front of you due to some petty grudge against the Darkness. Get off your high horses. Evil does not wish to see the world destroyed. You are confusing us with Chaos.

Do not fight our only chance of salvation if you have done nought to find another way. You have passed the point of no return by awakening Fiona. Your choice has already been made.

Cyfihi of the Ebon Hound, Champion of House Tenebrous



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I do not appreciate this dissent without understanding; forming opinions on half truths, baseless assumptions and unconfirmed claims. I told this story to the Mage's Guild when this became a point there and I feel it is necessary for everyone who feels their righteous behavior is justified.

Long ago, when the fey and dragons and immortal races walked the ground we now stand upon, there was no such thing as The Weave. There was no such thing as magic, at least as we know it today. In those times past, when the dragons and fey were called away to the astral realm by the Anastazi, for fear of their servants becoming tainted with good and evil, we did not have the powers we do today.

They fey did not want to leave this world without helping the young mortal races. From the two crystal mountains at the poles of the world, a network of strands sprouted out in colors of yellow, blue, red, orange, green and purple, creating a network of colors across the land. This structure became the weave. And with this weave, the fey taught a mortal man by the name of Necrophitus Arcane how to utilize these strands to summon powers not before known to mortal kind. It was he who learned the powers of the spheres contained within those strands. What the fey had learned, however, was that mortal beings could not fully master all eight spheres of magic, and so they found seven others to teach the ways of magic. These eight students in turn, taught others, forming an academy where all mortal kind could unlock the secrets of the weave.

In this time, the fey imparted one more gift to the mortals. They showed the eight students of the academy how to utilize these strands to accomplish higher magics through the creation of a focus crystal, and thus was born the arts of sorcery. The fey had taught the mortals everything they knew, and so they left the world.

Necrophitus was greedy for power. He wanted more than what they had taught him, so he locked himself away within his tower and began to experiment with the combination of spheres. What he came to discover was that by combining the spheres that cancel each other (fire and water, earth and air, wizardry and enchantment, illusion and warlockery), the spheres would decay, releasing a dark and twisted negative energy that he could manipulate. He had created the dark magic of Necromancy. Normally when magic is used, it releases back into the strands, continuing the cycle of magic that flows through the two poles, this however, only destroyed the spheres and returned nothing back. It was cancerous to the weave.

But Necrophitus did not stop there. He continued to bend and break the weave to his will until he began to snap the strands, causing them to turn black, rot and decay, releasing the same kind of energy, but in much greater quantities. This was how he created the art of Black Sorcery. This was the art of shattering the weave to utilize the negative energy that came from it into powerful, but monstrous rituals.

The others had caught wind of Necrophitus and his necromancy students, so they confronted him, led by the only other student strong enough to stand up to him, Lucindra. Unfortunately, he could not be beaten, and instead fled away, but his damage was done and the dark arts of magic were being spread. Lucindra had to find a way to stop the destruction, or the weave would surely not last. It was incomplete and finite. She came to understand his research and experimented ways to counteract it. With the use of positive energy, she learned to create new strand's of the weave. They would be born of a magnificent white energy that would release off the strand. This energy could be used to cast incredible rituals of purity and light, while the white strand would fade into one of the six colors and embed itself into the weave. She had created the art of white sorcery and it would combat the devastation of Necrophitus.

Since then, the necromantic mages and black sorcerers have wrought destruction upon the weave while the white sorcerers have repaired what damage they could. It was only recently that the Arrantir stones were placed into the pillars in which they belonged, finally completing the full cycle of magic between the two crystal mountains, allowing the weave the replenish itself. The ultimate purpose of the white sorcerers was completed with success. The weave from then on, could not be destroyed.
This is the history of The Weave and Magic.

Miranda, at some point during all of this had been locked away within the weave, though the weave was not created for this purpose. The gate to her prison lay in Vardemir, only accessible by the true Guardians of magic, the Pentirr Knights. Why she was locked away has been lost to time and history. To my knowledge there are no records of what she had done to earn her imprisonment.

This story is much of what I know regarding magic, the weave, black and white sorceries, and the basics of where we stand.

Miranda may have been the enemy of the Fiona Argentis. For what reason I do not know. She may have been wrongfully imprisoned. Only those who bore witness could tell.

Fiona, the Greater Good herself and leader of the Fiona Argentis, needs the help of her sister.

Do any of you truly have it in your heart to, without mercy, kill the people you have grown to know and care for?
Do you have the resolve to kill your friends and comrades, knowing there is a chance you will never see them again because of their death at your hands?
Would you stand against what is currently our greatest chance of success?
This is the simplest route to survival.

To All:

For a lot that talks about balance, apparently none of you understand what this means. Did you all forget the creatures on Amanthyre? Only having been given stories and what I have read, it was obvious that these creatures on that island were corrupted by Fiona's presence. This had happened while she was asleep. Imagine what happens when she is awake. She is asking for us to release her sister. I believe she would not have done this if she believed that there was a way to do it without her.

We were previously educated by the reveal of the secrets that the sisters, Fiona and Miranda are the embodiment of Good and Evil, not as a moral construct but as a power source. Just because the names Good and Evil are used to describe these power sources does not mean that they are on the level of things we have ever witnessed. It can be assumed that their goals and motivations are far more complex than these words and to try and make them fit the confines of what we have experienced is foolish.

If not utilizing Miranda is really your goal, then one should start considering how to put Fiona back to sleep. This is not a pick what's easy for us situation and to assume that Fiona can do this alone or with substitution , even when she urges the people to release her sister, is also a foolish thought.

If your morals and uncomfort at this situation would dictate you to ignore facts laid right before your eyes. If you would rather ignore everything Fiona says. If you would rather hide in a room with your eyes closed shut and your hands over your ears to ignore truth then so be it.

What must be done is not palatable to all but there are us who will do what must be done to save the world.

Remember that Miranda helped imprison the Nulls the first time and it was not her, but Fiona who put them at risk because she stopped to save one life over doing what needed to be done..

-Ava