Can the hurting please stop? MUST we have another rerun of this
age-old discussion just so that the new folks be made aware that
some people have problems with the way that the world turns?
Just for my own 1000 gold: what you call a mere Curse and a taint
is something very much more than that. What we are talking about
when we refer to the Embrace is the free-willed acceptance of
Damnation. Get it out of your head that everything can be healed,
Priest. There are such choices that can never be turned back and
that will irrevocably haunt the rest of our existence. It is my sincere
conviction that it is exactly as a token of this truth that the Creator
has allowed Queen Belladona to spread her condition among us.
Pleas do not try to make this token degenerate intto a mere
temporary affliction. Redemption is there as long as we cherish
our free will to accept it. The moment we give away that free will
there will be only Darkness and regret.

Penned by my hand on the 17th of Lleian, in the year 101 MA.