Greets all,

Lately there's been a lot of discussion about good and evil and how
people treat one another regarding it. The constant claim I hear from
vampires and necromancy users is that they are not evil because they not
behave in evil ways. In the case of necromancy users and vampires, this
claim is irrelevant.

Evil is not the product of mortal whimsy; it is not a subjective entity;
it is not a matter of perspective. It is a real, tangible force in this
world. It exists, it is a fact of our reality. To argue that evil and
good are subjective, to believe that they are a matter of perspective is
the first step towards the victory of malevolence, the greatest of
tricks evil could ever pull. When we begin to believe that the nature of
evil and goodness are in the eye the beholder, we allow any evil to be
argued away, to be vanished away by prevarication and artifice. When
this occurs, the diligence of those pledged to defend good will fail.
This was the downfall of the priests, it was a failing in my own
leadership.

To be a necromancy user or a vampire is to embrace evil, it is to take
evil into you, to make it a fundamental aspect of your being. Vampirism
emerged from some of the darkest events in our known history. It is the
legacy of an evil corruption, of betrayal and of hubris. To accept the
embrace is to accept that legacy, to take those evils into your being.
No amount of good deeds, no amount of love, compassion or any type of
behaviour can provide absolution for this, it is inside you and unless a
cure is found, it is there forever, part of your nature. You are evil,
you chose this path, knowingly or not. Accept this.

For those who practice necromancy, absolution is much easier to achieve.
Renounce its practice, quit your class and indeed, absolution may be
sought. But for those who have accepted the embrace, you cast your lot
long ago when you made your decision. No matter how well or ill informed
your decision was, it was ultimately yours to make. I feel no remorse or
sympathy for those who made this decision. I save those sentiments for
the innocent and the righteous. For ones I feel are deserving of these
feelings.

Perhaps someday a cure will be found for the embrace, a way to cleanse
this evil from the body. If so, I will celebrate it. Until then, the
blooded need not fear any threats of death from me. The vampires have
become a laughing stock of this world. A feeble band of overindulgent
brats. I would no more waste my time trying to destroy vampires than I
would waste it trying to rid Sapience's sewers of their vermin. I simply
have better ways to spend my time. Ultimately, I think the somewhat
laughable state of Sapience's vampires is a fitting outcome of Yrtez's
vain and pernicious grab at power.

Lessik Anyar

Penned by my hand on the 5th of Variach, in the year 136 MA.