I have no reason to believe the Regent is telling the truth.
Too many times in the history of my world have people come around thinking they know what's best for everyone else, that they alone have the solution to every problem.
Every single time, it's only made things worse.
Thousands of years ago, when an Empire was in the process of collapsing, one man, Amon, proposed a solution: bring the first Emperor back from the dead to rule over them once more. He succeeded, but the Emperor was a changed man, one preoccupied with death and ending the world. And it seemed Amon had come to believe the Emperor's desire was the correct course of action.
Meanwhile, Amon was given a promise of immortality and knowledge of a previous life he had forgotten. Far from making him see things differently, he realized something else: he had caused the near end of the world. And because it failed the first time, he would do it again, and kill the god created to protect the world to do it.
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Too many times in the history of my world have people come around thinking they know what's best for everyone else, that they alone have the solution to every problem.
Every single time, it's only made things worse.
Thousands of years ago, when an Empire was in the process of collapsing, one man, Amon, proposed a solution: bring the first Emperor back from the dead to rule over them once more. He succeeded, but the Emperor was a changed man, one preoccupied with death and ending the world. And it seemed Amon had come to believe the Emperor's desire was the correct course of action.
Meanwhile, Amon was given a promise of immortality and knowledge of a previous life he had forgotten. Far from making him see things differently, he realized something else: he had caused the near end of the world. And because it failed the first time, he would do it again, and kill the god created to protect the world to do it.