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>SELECTED: Emile believes that the Foe strictly incorporates monsters and other inhuman threats such as beastmen, Fae, the Undead and other such threats that have plagued mankind since its inception. Humans can be enemies of the righteous, even evil, but they are not ‘The Foe’ in the existential sense as a threat to mankind. [Narrow Interpretation]
The people you have met on your long journey here, the friends and foes you have encountered on the road, these experiences have changed you. You cannot imagine yourself as the same young man as when you set out from Andrei lands. Your conviction to the cause of the Almighty, the service of light and righteousness, has only grown all the stronger. With an Angel on your shoulder, how could it not?
But your perceptions of who you had long considered to be irredeemable enemies and natural allies has been challenged. You are not so blind to the realities of your parlaying with the Fae and other denizens of Fallavon to hold that every Fae or unseelie creature is evil incarnate, and there are more men than you had suspected were anything but a comrade in mankind’s struggle. In this, men like Father Towbray and the renowned Cainite knights of the Broken Blade are wrong. Not every beastman need burn upon the pyre of Cain’s righteous fury, should they do the sons of Adam no harm. But does that mean they can be trusted much beyond certain proven individuals? You doubt it, although the possibility exists. Still, if man wishes to regain the Kingdom of Heaven it must do so on its own strength and merits.
Even the lowest of humans, even the most wicked and self-serving of men, even they do not wish for the extinguishment of the entire human race. A brigand, a killer or a slave even can perhaps, be redeemed and shown the error of their ways. Even those very worst, the heretic Pit-fallen Sons of Sins, perhaps. If they can even still be considered human. The same cannot be said for those not of your race. You have seen firsthand the merciless hunger of the monster that has tasted the flesh of man, the bellowing rage in the beastmen that would throttle the whole world of man if it could but wrap their dirty claws around it’s collective throat. And worse still, you have looked into the eyes of the Deadmen and seen that bottomless Pit that lies there. There was no hate there or even hunger, no fear or room for compromise. In those cold dead eyes was the slaughter of babes, the burning of cities and extinction of your whole race done without a tear wept or second thought given. With enemies such as these, peace was never an option.
No. You have seen the face of the Foe, that ancient enemy of all you are sworn to oppose and destroy, and it does not wear the face of Man.
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