Vincent-Miers
02-07-2007, 09:57 PM
Okay, so this is rather short, a beginning of what was supposed to be a rather longer piece. It was to be used as not only the introduction to a Dungeons and Dragons campaign I was gunna run, but as the starting point for the story I was gunna write out, as I was intending to record all the notes from every session and write it up into a proper story. I've not quite given up on the idea, just work and personal life takes priority of course, so I may put more up at some point as I continue to write out the bits I need to run the campaign.
'What is evil?
How do you define what is right and wrong?
Is it wrong to strike down another man in battle to defend yourself?
Is it so terrible to go to war with another nation to provide for your people?
Is it evil to feed off the blood of sentient beings to survive?
I suppose that each persons answer, their views and beliefs, will be respectively different. Perhaps the circumstances leading to the events, the people involved, where it all happened could all be a factor towards it. You will just to have make up your own mind, or have someone else make it up for you. I hear contradiction on your lips, to tell me that you would never let another man make that kind of decision for you, but we do each every day. We hear about all the 'great 'battles' of times passed, where good triumphed over evil, but what if they where all lies? What if evil was the winning side and it vanquished the light, or if we just replaced one evil with another, stronger one?
This brings too mind stories of one particular such war, a dark age indeed. The 'Black Dawn' war's is what they called it. Necromancers, undead, demons, werewolves and vampires all rose up and waged war on the humans, elves, dwarves and other supposed forces of 'light.' They spilled forth from underground lairs, and some even from among the populace. Using their dark magic’s, they corrupted the suns light so that their warriors could fight during the day and night. With their relentless assaults, they pushed back the forces of good till they where on the brink of destruction. But even then, under such pressures and against such odds, the light threw back the warriors of darkness and returned things to their natural order.
But let us pause the story here. I'm sure that you are pleased with your kinds triumph, the classic fairytale ending that they accomplished to ensure that their future generations, you, were here today. But I'm sure the other side didn't see it that way, so let us take a look at their reasons for fighting. Many were striving to continue a way of life they knew, others for survival in general. Even the king of the vampires, Leonid Delgeere, fought in the wars because of a passion that burned within his immortal heart, love for a human princess. Are the boundaries between good and evil, light and dark, right and wrong as clearly cut as you see them?
Isn't it wrong to persecute someone because their way of life is different too yours? Many races have waged war in the name of religion or theology. Is it not true that in such wars both sides believed that they fight on the side of 'right'? And is it not therefore justifiable to say that all that is proved is right is on the side of might?'
'What is evil?
How do you define what is right and wrong?
Is it wrong to strike down another man in battle to defend yourself?
Is it so terrible to go to war with another nation to provide for your people?
Is it evil to feed off the blood of sentient beings to survive?
I suppose that each persons answer, their views and beliefs, will be respectively different. Perhaps the circumstances leading to the events, the people involved, where it all happened could all be a factor towards it. You will just to have make up your own mind, or have someone else make it up for you. I hear contradiction on your lips, to tell me that you would never let another man make that kind of decision for you, but we do each every day. We hear about all the 'great 'battles' of times passed, where good triumphed over evil, but what if they where all lies? What if evil was the winning side and it vanquished the light, or if we just replaced one evil with another, stronger one?
This brings too mind stories of one particular such war, a dark age indeed. The 'Black Dawn' war's is what they called it. Necromancers, undead, demons, werewolves and vampires all rose up and waged war on the humans, elves, dwarves and other supposed forces of 'light.' They spilled forth from underground lairs, and some even from among the populace. Using their dark magic’s, they corrupted the suns light so that their warriors could fight during the day and night. With their relentless assaults, they pushed back the forces of good till they where on the brink of destruction. But even then, under such pressures and against such odds, the light threw back the warriors of darkness and returned things to their natural order.
But let us pause the story here. I'm sure that you are pleased with your kinds triumph, the classic fairytale ending that they accomplished to ensure that their future generations, you, were here today. But I'm sure the other side didn't see it that way, so let us take a look at their reasons for fighting. Many were striving to continue a way of life they knew, others for survival in general. Even the king of the vampires, Leonid Delgeere, fought in the wars because of a passion that burned within his immortal heart, love for a human princess. Are the boundaries between good and evil, light and dark, right and wrong as clearly cut as you see them?
Isn't it wrong to persecute someone because their way of life is different too yours? Many races have waged war in the name of religion or theology. Is it not true that in such wars both sides believed that they fight on the side of 'right'? And is it not therefore justifiable to say that all that is proved is right is on the side of might?'