To The People of Travance

Yes. They were chosen. Those who accept these things are usually in their worst.
However, willingly accepting a demon into you is an evil act and no longer makes you innocent. True Warlocks are horrible. Ask a Belemont. I can point you in the direction of at least 3.

Marika Del Dragon Laurent-Belmont
Dame Amalthea Laurent-Belmont
Lady Kliedin Weaveforger Laurent-Belmont.

Talk to them before continuing down this path of stupidity and ignorance.

And usually I'm the one causing the double up.

If the Quinarian man was innocent and didn't accept the symbiote yet was still possessed by it then maybe the duke and Chancellor could be innocent.

I'm not sure if you read all of my posts, Caelvan.
I suggest you do.

Gabriel,

What did you mean?

I will spell this out slowly, and with tiny words.


He.


Did.


Accept.


The.


Symbiote.

How would you even know of this? That wasn't written on the boards anywhere we can see, nor where you in town. It seems unreasonable you would know this without some unseen means. Even if you had a contact, this is something from last month, didn't you just arrive?

You would need to assume a LOT from the little tidbits that are barley quantifiable as information, and go as far as to read through our forms as son as you got here. Are you a Tamarian spy?

Dear Mr. Dr. Willowyn,

I understand not wanting to waste lives. I do. Life is a very precious thing. The man you're talking about though...the true warlock who we were able to save...just like the others, he chose to host the symbiote, which means he was not innocent. He did something very bad, which led him to do other very very very very very very bad things. The difference is that he then chose to be saved from the symbiote for the sake of his wife. And now he has to live with all of the terrible things he's done. Luckily, he has her to support him, but he has a lot to answer for, both to the world and to himself. That is why we were able to help him: the desire to change. Mr. Ranior had a reason to want to change. He had the desire to do it, and he knew that what he had done was terrible, and he regretted it.

I never met your duke or your magister or your chancellor. I barely even know what those words mean. But the question is, do they want to change? Do they regret the bad things they've done? If they do, then maybe there is something you can do, but you cannot force people to be what they don't want to be. You can't make them do anything they don't want to do - at least not without magic, which wouldn't really be saving them - and if there is nothing there to make them want to fix what they've done, then what is there to do but protect the people who are actually innocent whom they are hurting?

I'm not saying we must kill them. I'm not saying we must not. I don't know enough about what's happening to say one way or the other. But my teacher taught me that I must first show compassion to the innocent, then to my allies, and then to my enemies. If spending time trying to change the minds of the true warlocks means that more innocent people get hurt, killed, or worse - stripped of free will - then they have to be stopped.

-Midori Suarez
Daughter of Mercy