Dragonite2012 wrote:
And Erik, Zhensh Empire is a fulcrum. It's the geo-political balance point between the east and west, the dark and light. Leading the Talons is a tricky job for a scrupulous character. I've always held it is really more a job for a grey. A dogmatic or even unprincipled. The complaint, as I'm seeing it, is not that Reinald didn't do what was necessary to walk that tightrope that a Talon leader has to balance on, but that you eschewed all the drive of a scrupulous character to do so. That you disregarded Reinald's alignment. I also think throwing Reinald into the category of "miscreant" is somewhat exaggerated, but when we expect to see white, and see grey instead, the grey looks awfully dark. It's really too bad, because when I met Reinald when I was on Keth, and again on a couple other characters, I liked him. But somewhere about the time he took over Tensarie's mess, is when it seemed to fall apart. And, so he got booted from the Talons, Reinald is high profile, so redeem him. Use it. I think you can do that, but I think you have to put all of THIS behind you, and figure out Reinald's next chapter... See this not as an ending, but as an opportunity.
Believe me, the complaint is as spurious as it can be. The way I saw it was that when it comes to faction decisions, the faction concept matters more than alignment but it is always kept in check by the alignment. Zhenshi has grey and evil PCs and it should be punishable if a Talon leader made decisions based on his alignment instead of simply being fair. What happened in this case was fairness regardless of alignment, and always taking into account the stated intentions of everyone involved. The lighties started the fight and instead of going through the necessary channels, they just proclaimed that they would break the law to do whatever they want while the darkie in question cooperated fully to clear the whole thing up. Regardless of good intentions or bad intentions, no Talon leader can accept crap like that outside of an alliance or even in an alliance. Letting your allies come in and gank peaceful characters and/or citizens is bad RP regardless of alignment.
How is Zhenshi a lightie kingdom though? The majority of the citizens are grey and there is even a NPC in Nerina with a slave, talking about "the Father". Half the Talon board is filled with past RP that emphasizes tolerance, neutrality, law-keeping instead of crusading. Obviously the law-keeping force would be lighties, having an exclusively greybie force would mean that there would also be a high degree of corruption. But yeah okay, in the grand quest of zerging the darkies, let's make Zhenshi into an exclusively lightie kingdom exactly like Ayamao and Taslamar are.
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