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Chapter 11

Spiritual Views

Unalethekai, raised in a more shamanistic culture, shares a view common to
Buddhism or Hinduism, that of Karma.

The soul travels through a cycle of rebirth, and the form you take when you
are reborn is based upon the karma from your previous life. Doing evil things
like murdering, torturing, stealing, and to a lesser extent, lying, are bad
karma. Selfless acts, charity, and noble speech and action promote good
karma and happiness, both in yourself and those around you.

Violence, to any degree, brings a soul a measure of bad Karma. This is a
large part of the reason Unalethekai has taken it upon himself to eliminate
the threat of those who take pleasure in and perpetuate that violence.

An innocent fisherman who defends himself against a marauding pirate cannot
avoid the negative effects of his violent actions on his peace of mind and
his soul, even though he did not choose to seek out conflict. Suffering has
come to him, although he otherwise leads a peaceful life.

Thus, Unalethekai devotes himself to taking on the karmic debt of the people
by eliminating the need for good and simple folk to defend themselves. He
hunts down those who revel in the violence, who make a living from it, or
support it, and cuts them down and sends them to face their own Karma and
unfavorable rebirth before they can pollute anyone else's with their
mindless, uncaring actions.

He believes that, if he leads a virtuous life, the peace and happiness he has
promoted will balance out the violence he surrounds himself with on a daily
basis. This makes it very important that he takes every opportunity to help
the needy, and even seek out those in need before they come to him.

That, and he believes his own strength of will would never allow him to be
reborn in a less enlightened form, his spirit strong enough to retain the
wisdom it has gained in this life. This is his ace in the hole, his fallback,
his last hope.

He is inspired by the tales of Captain Neltouda refusing to accept her fate,
and reaching a state of enlightenment by sheer force of will, and seeks to
emulate that strength.

He's sure in action and deed, honest nearly to a fault, and will always take
the lead, unless he's having trouble finding his land-legs, which tends to
happen (AFTER 5PM EST, WHEN HE IS MUDDING FROM HOME AND HIS ROOMMATES ARE
HOGGING BANDWIDTH WITH P2P SOFTWARE AND UNALETHEKAI IS LAGGING. >:-(..... )