[HQ Ignorance] Re : Re : Scene 111: Interesting Times

[Lev Lafayette]

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 09:12 -0700, Gianni & Anna Vacca wrote:
> > - "Could you ask him what he feels is his mission now?"
> 
> The Seeker promptly reverts Azhur's question to the Kralori general.
> 

"All my life I have followed the Emperor. It is natural and right. But
now there is no Emperor. And the Emperor showed no care when the Can Shu
invaded, when pirates invaded, when barbarians attacked our
civilisation. Yao Fune! That is what is responsible. A force like Chaos
itself, that infects the mind and turns it to mush, like those sages."

"That is what I think. I think the Emperor's mind was infected by
poisonous ideas and I think the sages are too stupid to rule. I support
the Exarch, the next in line to an Emperor who has abdicated his duty. I
am General Han Sui, Who Guards Against The West, and yet these days I
look to the east with greatest fear. The West? Ha! All my life I've
witnessed these weaklings have poked and prodded to get past the Iron
Forts and drag their rotten carcasses back into the glory that is
Kralorela. A half-breed of criminals and barbarians who fear dragons and
worship stormy weather. It is the fall of the east that worries me the
most. The rotting within."

"What say you Dragonman? How will your people react to this threat to
the home of your most humble human servants, who have protected you for
dozens of our generations? Will the Dragonmen join the fight against the
drug-addled Can Shu? Against the barbaric pirates of Melib? Against the
mountain-dwelling goblin primitives? Will the Dragonmen fight alongside
us?"