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Chapter 12

Meditating on Intrigue
Added Fri Nov 5 20:33:40 2021 at level 51:

Considering the covenant the Scions have with the Nightwalkers, one that
Redclaw had been skeptical of, has led to a little insight: the true secret
to intrigue lies not in the ability to bring about a desired outcome, but to
use any outcome towards your ends. Should the Nightwalkers remain allies,
the Scions will use that, but a betrayal can also be used in its own way.

Then he has wondered, why let Nightwalkers invade the Prime plane at all?
Why share Thera with these creatures when being among the most powerful magi
in existence means the world is already your oyster?

Well, it turns out some had their reasons. A mastery of shadow and death is
more applicable in a world where shadow and death rules supreme. Others saw
it as the means to ultimate destruction of forces of Light that hold sway.
Yet others, like Redclaw himself, simply accept that it may be one possible,
or perhaps inevitable (due to the prophecy) path for Thera to avoid falling
into stagnancy and evolve into a new, unstable world rife with conflict.

It makes sense to want to be along for the ride, to see that evolution
firsthand someday. He doesn't know which parts of the prophecy are true, and
to what extent. However, he has been unable to secure any further contact
with the Scions in order to learn more or discuss the Cabal's future. True
to the ideas described above, he was prepared to make the most of either his
success or failure to join them, but he had not foreseen... this silence.

Is the once-powerful Cabal really extinct, again? And for how long?