Confessions

"It is the right of every being to live without fear, free from the threat of death or pain. It is the right of every being to live without disease and corruption, the right of the sick to be healed, and to live a life free from random destruction and enslavement. Those are the basic tenets all of the Gods of Light profess."

Rights and wants are very different things. Of everything written here, this I find to be the most amusing. It is only because of the existence of fear that courage may ever come to pass, death is what makes life so poignant, pain is the fire in which we as people are forged. Disease culls the herd, brings down the weak, or feeble. And the ideal that corruption is so terribly misunderstood is... well is normal. One cannot corrupt those who are already corrupt, and none save those who can reach into another's mind can truly make anyone do anything they truly do not want to do. The people always have a choice, they may not like their choices, but rarely do any of us. People do what they most want to do regardless of what they may protest about, otherwise their actions would not come to pass, and simply put; people most often choose what is easy. And clearly if we were all meant to lead lives free of random destruction and enslavement perhaps the Gods would do something about that, and Arawyn would not still be smoldering from Xualla. Those closest to the Gods are all slaves in one form or another-conscripted soldiers in a war they mostly do not understand.

Indeed, be very wary of "the source" when seeking knowledge and "truth."

To any so interested, it is always my pleasure to unburden one from their sins.

**Not Caelvan**

"Free from the threat of death..."

Must have skimmed over that one.... Why is death a threat? Death is nothing to fear. I certainly don't fear it. Death is nothing to run from. If it is your time then it is your time. No sense of bravery or fear will prevent it.

Any who wish to discuss this further seek me out the next time I am in the Proper.

-Merikh

I am going to make this short.

Responding to the point of this posting, and the problems held with it; if you go to church looking to confess you are giving express permission to have the clergy member use prayers to discern the truth so they may pray to their god for your forgiveness.

If anyone wishes to bring matters involving the law to light, please do so with the guard readily available, and without making a mess of these boards, or incriminating yourself and/or others.

I am not ending this as a discussion, but request that before people put quill to parchment and tack it here, please put thought of what you are saying, and how it could be taken. Even innocent sounding words can be condemning if put in the wrong order, or with the wrong intent.

Vice-Captain Squire. Oren Tenderson

Following on the words of Vice-Captain Tenderson,

This would mark at least the second case in as many months where a person has made a false and unsubstantiated statement against a member of the Clergy.

This distracting and attention seeking behavior is annoying and frankly, boring and should cease immediately.
If anyone has reason or evidence of an actual crime committed , produce your evidence, bring it to a guardsman and see justice done.

Atrus,

Sadly, despite the horror of your damnation, which I know you feel, you would still waste time trying to convince others that you are some benign agent of entropy. Though that word is heinously misused by you and your ilk.

Your argument is undone by its own unwieldy and circular nature. Light can exist without darkness, it always has. Light is an expression of goodness and effort and energy. Darkness is simply its absence. Darkness cannot in turn exist without light, but it is only by the grace of light that darkness has its corners to dwell in.

You speak of disease and corruption as if they could exist without something to infect?
I encourage all people to question the source of what motivates them, especially if the source of that motivation is something which would encourage a person to defile, sunder and distrust. You can cry that you are seeking "Balance" but in the end all intelligent people know that it is much easier to destroy something than it is to create it. The world has seen enough destruction without you and your putrid god trying to speed up the process.

If you seek to naturally cull the herd and tend to the worlds need for balance and natural order, I am certain a Gaian , Druid or Ranger could teach you how they do just that.

What I find most taxing is when an intelligent and troubled mind is wasted in this way.

I have and continue to keep you in my prayers Atrus, I hope you will find yourself in our company when confessions are heard. I will make my confession alongside you if you wish.

ive killed many for both light and dark in travance's name,and have seen many buried in both their name before and when the demons were upon us.....all i got was their silence,your gods are fickle and terrible,and impede ones true spiritual improvement and well being

Then thou art welcome to remain silent on this and any other issue regarding our Gods. Tis thine choice to write.