"Yes. As much as it pains me to say, but the Chantry hasn't always acted with truth as her aim."
It really does pain him to say; he is sorrowful that this is the state of the world, without denying it.
He goes on: "Spirits aren't evil of themselves, but they did let their envy of mankind--the Maker's second children--pervert them into demons. 'In blackest envy were demons born,' and those demons tempted men into tearing the Veil and violating the sanctity of the Maker's seat, the Golden City--blackening it forever.
"It's said their envy was the first thing the spirits created, and--I s'pose," thoughtful, now, as one coming to a new exegesis of an old and beloved scripture, "that's used as justification for the Maker's condemnation of them. Not that they couldn't create, but they didn't bother to until He had turned His face from them, and so they were deserving of His rejection. Because they chose not to be any greater than what they were."
Snip, snip, snip. More thoughtful still: "Odd thought. Don't know if I'd heard it argued that way before and forgot it or just came up with it now--but I don't know I believe it."
spirit of curiosity, maybe. or infiltration. could totally have "infiltration".
It really does pain him to say; he is sorrowful that this is the state of the world, without denying it.
He goes on: "Spirits aren't evil of themselves, but they did let their envy of mankind--the Maker's second children--pervert them into demons. 'In blackest envy were demons born,' and those demons tempted men into tearing the Veil and violating the sanctity of the Maker's seat, the Golden City--blackening it forever.
"It's said their envy was the first thing the spirits created, and--I s'pose," thoughtful, now, as one coming to a new exegesis of an old and beloved scripture, "that's used as justification for the Maker's condemnation of them. Not that they couldn't create, but they didn't bother to until He had turned His face from them, and so they were deserving of His rejection. Because they chose not to be any greater than what they were."
Snip, snip, snip. More thoughtful still: "Odd thought. Don't know if I'd heard it argued that way before and forgot it or just came up with it now--but I don't know I believe it."