Role

Chapter 3

Perhaps I did so in arrogance, perhaps I thought my life did matter, but for
better or worse it is now done. I've enlisted in the Blood Tribunal and am a
magistrate of Seantryn Modan. It seemed so simple before I witnessed the
chaotic reality of city life. In the temple everything is regulated, we eat
at the proper time, we pray when it is time to pray, we work when it is time
to work. In the city there is no schedule, there is no order. You never know
for a certainty what anyone is doing. Worse, the unthinkable in the temple is
the grim reality of the city. Murder and theft are common place as the forces
of chaos run rampant through the streets.

I joined the tribunal to bring some of the peace and order of my home to the
city by enforcing the sensible but lax laws of the Tribunal authority. I have
been fortunate in that Seantryn is more peaceful than the other cities under
the Tribunal watch, there are few disturbances and generally the people who
live here are honest and lead an orderly life. It is when I visit the other
cities that I begin to wonder if I alone am enough. Perhaps one day I, and
the Tribunal can be. The chaotic forces do not fear reprisal from the law and
at times I think about the lengths that I would go to in order to make the
chaos recognize and respect the Tribunal authority.

The battle for dominance between Order and Chaos, Creation and Destruction is
ongoing. I know that the Blood Tribunal is only a small part of a greater
whole, the same as my home in the Temple, and the same as the thoughts within
my own head. My heart is ever hopeful that the day will come when I need
fight no more, but my mind knows that day will be long in coming.