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I've waited a long time to write this part. I thought of splitting it in two, but it really is meant to be a single piece. Chapter 11 – Snakes Don't Eat Plants, Gilgamesh "-. .-" In the Unlamented Prophecies of 20th century Terra, Alaric the Mad was the most famous and also most infamous...

Ghost Your Woman "-. The previous evening… .-" As soon as Diodora Astaroth's now former Queen was out of commission, I used transmutation to drop the three of us down into the local underground tunnel network, closing the ground and street above us so that no trace remained. Very few sewers...

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible." I also like 'power doesn't corrupt, it reveals.' Marcus Aurelius wrote it down first (I think).

Honestly, I don't buy it. This is just giving them an excuse. Freud was a fraud, and so everything he ever said (i.e. freudian excuses) are bullshit. Some people are just evil. It doesn't matter how they ended up that way, they deserve no sympathy at all.

Is it though? It's these same childless freaks that dragged us into the present swamp, because they brainwashed the kids of other people. They may not have kids of their own, but they have yours for more time in a week than you usually get with them, at school (and on forums, in this case). Will...

Not old enough to make his own decisions, clearly, so not old enough to consent.

If they'd followed through on making Ketheric recruitable, it would probably be different.

A/N: Obviously, this poor sap will become a supporting character in the future. Your regularly scheduled program Keeping Up with Sorin Rares will return next week, thought it might be another before it starts to become clear why I think this makes for such a fitting crossover here. Ghost Your...

Do they still slander people as writers of CP over there?

Is there ever a point to these what ifs? The power scales are far too different for any debate.

Evil people can't write smart characters unless they're utterly, unscrupulpusly self-aware. Otherwise, they MUST make them even worse than themselves, because the alternative is admitting that the 'better' choices they themselves would make are actually already totally evil. Thus, stupid evil...

A/N: When the enemy you missed succeeds at what you failed, but still loses because Power of Friendship. Is Not Distant Enough "-. .-" For all of Antonidas' living memory, the Council of Six had conducted itself with a reasonable measure of transparency, its members known by all. That was...

A/N: These butterflies are made for stomping. Chapter 29 (II.7) – Distant Dissent "-. Antonidas d'Ambrosio, Dalaran .-" Knowledge, Wisdom, Excellence. A brilliant motto on the surface, but not so much when you were given cause to ask 'what.' What does knowledge take precedence over? If...

A/N: Who could ever have seen this coming? But I repeat myself. (II) I didn't explain. I kept it strictly to what the Ruinous Powers already knew, but the dwarfs never knew the difference. They clearly suspected I was keeping things back, but they didn't begrudge me, and they did so in a...

I thought their official stance was 'everything is canon'?