Trickster Seems Evil

I’ll make this simple and quick to understand as I can.

I am a Herald of Nature. I am the direct representative and channeler of the primal aspects of Arawyn.

Trickster is NOT EVIL.

Like my comrades before me stated here, he is a being of mischief and cunning but he is not evil. By nature he is order aligned.

What a lot of other people don’t understand is that Trickster also represents learning.

Learning from your mistakes is one of them.

He went to observe Khala’s ritual. From what I was told, seeing it getting into dangerous territory, he did what he thought best to protect those around him and took the seed out, which caused the Chaotic energy to feed off his own. He did NOT do it intentionally for it to create whatever it made. As a NATURAL ASPECT OF ARAWYN ITSELF, his duty is to protect Arawyn and it’s inhabitants.

Rituals can be unpredictable. He did not know this chaotic being would form because of his presence.

Your focus should not be on the Trickster but on the thing that WAS created. That being is an entity of chaos and needs to be stopped.

Trickster is not to blame here. He was observing to make sure Khala learned her lesson, regardless what happened, and now she is paying for it.

Here is what I know- someone who is not Khala fill me in if I'm wrong.
-Khala used a ritual and Trickster's mere presence at this ritual to make a demonic Trickster version.
-for this she was declared an outlaw.
Was any of Trickster's power taken from him in the ritual?
Was Khala given a chance to redeem herself?
Was she cut off from her Druidics by Trickster?

Icarus was a danger because she could not control her power to absorb organic matter. She was also a child. Children do not bear the full brunt of legal penalty in just societies because they are still learning, and part of the penalty can be educational for the child as well as those watching. The Icarus I saw in the Clockwork realm was a lonely little girl.

As for Eden, that was a mistake made partly by the town. That was a case of another individual blank canvas who wanted to learn, so people taught her powers without giving her ethics. She became so concerned with her capacity to do things she did not stop to consider whether or not she should. We now have a second chance, and should not repeat the same mistake in that vein.

As for the Trickster issue, I don't want to take the chance that Demon Trickster might try to kill him and corrupt the whole of druidics or some strange sort of corruption could happen, so I suggest this course: Prepare for the possibility of corruption happening, and watch Trickster as closely as possible (which I recognize may be difficult to impossible). In this matter I will trust those more skilled in Druidics than I.

Tom is absolutely right.

"Did nothing but observe."

He told Ilana it would be a lesson. He knew it would be a bad outcome and wanted Khala to learn. Just because he was bad at calculating doesn't absolve him from guilt.

If you have the power to stop something evil, and you don't because you think it won't be that bad, or you want to see what happens, you are just as responsible as the perpetrator.

But where is the beast?

~Nalick DeMarche

The beast is gone until the fates decide to give us a hint of where it might be. And when we find it, I am sure all hands will be on deck to destroy it.

That is irrelevant to this current conversation Nalick. Make a new posting if you wish to discuss that.

Actually Caelvan, that's not accurate, but I am more than willing to share my expertise.

-The ritual was there to combine Chaos and Druidics in a seed from what I could tell. (I did not partake in this ritual, I sat on the sidelines and had a contingency plan in case it failed. More on that later.)
-The way Chaos works, the more you try to focus it and the less options you give it to escape it the more intense and powerful it becomes. While the ritual started as a nicer balance at some point the energies redirected themselves and the Druidics made an inescapeable barrier for the Chaos and the Chaos was forced into the seed. Those using Chaos to channel were unable to stop themselves as the ritual overtook them. They worked through various methods to try to stop the continued fueling of this ritual to no avail. The intensity grew to the point of causing harm to everyone in the area.
-Once people were being hurt the barrier of Order needed to disappear in order to vent the Chaos. My expectation was that a blight grove would appear and I would burn it all to ash, this was my plan and until this point I had done nothing to their ritual.
-What I couldn't see from my distance, considering how small the seed was, is that it had cracked and a tiny portal to the Abyss had formed from the concentration of Aetheric energy.
-My contingency was to burn everything away the best ways I know how. As far as I'm aware the only beings that can siphon Chaotic energies away from someone else in control of that power is a demon, one that must be stronger than the initial wielder.
-Once my contingency went off and started to successfully burn away the excess energy, this hidden newborn demon grabbed hold of this energy and tried to pull it from me. I attempted to resist, but it was stronger in the moment and left me rather weak. I did not stay much longer after this due to this reason.
-It also did a similar effect to the Trickster, which is why it may look similar, but with demonic features.

After this was done, the Trickster passed judgement on the creator of the ritual and as the rest of the town showed tried to spare them the fury of those that did not yet understand what occurred.

George