After having played what? 5 Marans? I found it rather amusing the whole situation. What stuck in my mind was "Ok, this healer attacked me...then in mid fight ordered me to flee....what...the..huh?" I don't really care, if thats how you wanted your character to be then fine but I always got the impression that you were the puppetmaster in that whole situation and not the reverse. Why would I be marked for *defending* myself? Thats just silly, Shok would never mark a neutral for that in this situation and, more likely, would give the Maran in question a talking to regarding what the purpose of the Maran is. Then again I've never played a Maran that didn't need induction from the Shokster himself, maybe now its like Village with a golden aura, a ton of justification and very little desire to adhere to the schema of the intention of the cabal. If you're saying the truth about the Maran then I'm even more fond of my choices regarding that character, and even more stalwart in my opinion that many of the lightwalkers have forgotten the main differences between good and evil. Either way, what I said probably came off harsher then it was meant to anyway. Cheers.