| Elishiaila - another all time favorite
She isn't as friendly as Enerla, and isn't misschievous at all, she can be at least as dangerous as our favorite Little Girl. Some would point to the standards of the place, where she born, and think it would explain everything. While Krán realy has customs you would call as strange and alien, it is far from defining a standard that all everyone here would follow in the same way. The soul is more important to the body. A law know from many cultures taken to the extreme here. If someone fails, and would suffer getting into a lower state in reincarnation, one who gives him a chance to get a newer, and better life, and protects him from making mistakes till his chances of an acceptable progress in reincarnation diminishes: It is a great favor it someone kills him. But before that the killer should warn the victim about his failures to make his soul remember it in the next life, to avoid even more problems. Pain can remove the signs of failures, and can protect from the other consequences of failures. Enduring pain is an important merit. But helping others to clean the track of their sins and failures this way is also accepted as an act of goodness.
Krán says everyone should choose his own path and own faith, but if they belong to Krán, and worship Ranagol, these laws apply to them. They rarely start any conflict with anyone, but they tend to win all such conflict. If you are effective and share their goals, you are good. But sometimes the reasons behind these goals remain hidden to almost everyone. But even if you choose to follow their ways (or born here) you have plenty of freedom: If you are effective in what you are doing you are a good person, since you bring advancement to their country. And one who is better can rule the others as he / she wishes, and have to obey only the more advanced beings. You can have any faith, as long as you accept, that Ranagol is superior god in this path and these values. In fact you should treat most other gods are more advanced and successfull than you so hurting them or disobeying can be a problem. If you prove you are better than most you can make your own law. As you see, the society is very alien, but more often than not, they work to make sure the world is better to all. But their actions are often strange. Lets see on case study:
They destroyed most of an empire, because that empire was too proud yet too weak, and about 20 years later, they needed to be rebuilt and in an alliance against a god that materialized and started to conquer the whole planet with its followers. The plan worked, and this alliance stopped that god, but many question, why they destroyed most of an empire with many people, and forgot to see, that in 20 years that empire rebuilt. There are many more such stories in their history.
So given an elven woman who born in a less alien region of Krán, where they even value life, and good life. She is open, and well trained, both in arts of combat and art of magic, but she mostly excels in social skills, be it politics, diplomacy, or just charming others in a mundane way, now she is famous and strong, and thanks to her successes she is mostly free. But she has many friends she belongs to, and she is one of the few from Krán, who is accepted in many different places. And most people says she is a good and noble person. Yet she has many things that can show, she born and raised in Krán.
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09-18-2004, 06:13 PM
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