Now, with the virtue of hindsight, of course you see it thusly. And let us make no mistake, your position had its merits.
[She glances sidelong at him, her expression gentle but her eyes deadly serious.] Primals, eikons, brought naught but grief and misery to the world in the corrupted form the Ascians' ritual incarnated them, for but one example. Who could say your desire to oppose them was wrong?
Yet, understand, this is not a question of morality, but one of purpose. You are a man who faces the short, bitter life allotted you not with despair and passive retreat. Rather, you find purpose, and in doing so, meaning in that life. As a person, I may disagree with what choices you made in service of your purpose... but as the one who sundered the star, it is all I could ever ask from you and your fellows. So do not bemoan your past, when you are ever walking to the future. Merely learn from it, and grow stronger from the path you have walked and the tribulations you faced along the way.
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[She glances sidelong at him, her expression gentle but her eyes deadly serious.] Primals, eikons, brought naught but grief and misery to the world in the corrupted form the Ascians' ritual incarnated them, for but one example. Who could say your desire to oppose them was wrong?
Yet, understand, this is not a question of morality, but one of purpose. You are a man who faces the short, bitter life allotted you not with despair and passive retreat. Rather, you find purpose, and in doing so, meaning in that life. As a person, I may disagree with what choices you made in service of your purpose... but as the one who sundered the star, it is all I could ever ask from you and your fellows. So do not bemoan your past, when you are ever walking to the future. Merely learn from it, and grow stronger from the path you have walked and the tribulations you faced along the way.