Be interesting to see if the results bear similarity to a poll i made:
http://ryzom.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17938
It took me seveal months of picking through the lore, to patch conclusions from dogma, to see efforts made and not propaganda, to glimpse the motive and frame a clear idea of the possible futures. from this Following jena and supporting the Karavan is by far the most logical.
The Karavan have been supporting homin civilisation, since the civilisations began in return they ask for materials. This seems fair to me ressurections and teleportation for materials and dappers. In addition they teach us the ways of their knowledge and also protect us from major threats, this may be a vested interest but benefits homins considerably. The Kami also do similar but ask for a balance, and do not promise to protect homins especially.
Then there are the accusations against each faction. It is said by Tryton's followers that Jena comes to conquer Atys, to enslave homins. This is absurd when one considers the effort and resources the Karavan uses to support hominkind it would be a kin to raising a child, teaching it to fight and build a nation to then take it away? Tryton is a foe of Jena (and the Kami) whose motives are vaguer than any and method more secretive. Ma Duk is said to take our souls and sap to stave off a madness of goo. At first i thought this as rubbish then it occured to me that perhaps this is not. Kami seek balance or an unchanging world of stability. They promise just enlightenment to join with Ma Duk. They taught us magic which aside from useful to defend homins, develops our personal sap. And then there are the degenerate homins which make a re-appearance a few years after the exodus. Conclusion is that the Kami are little more than a powerful elaborate parasite, homins being consumed to maintain ma duk/kamis own existance. And their faith makes homins do this willingly. The result being a degenerate.
The kitin. the karavan will and have openly fought the kitin, the Kami by their own doctrine of the balance of flora and fauna will not allow kitins to be exterminated same with homins. So we therefore cannot rely upon the kami, if homins wish to rid atys of the kitin threat. Also as masters of the natural balance of atys, why did the kami allow the great swarm, unless it served to balance the homins.
Then the future. A Kami victory has atys dominated by a parasite (the dragon?) the world will be unchanging, ignorance will prevail and we become cattle to feed the kami. A Karavan victory will lead to a victory over kitins, and the freedom of homins to tame atys for hominkind, to trade with the karavan for services and materials and knowledge, And perhaps even our decendants going to other worlds too. To not act, to support neither, is to keep this existance of struggle and conflict. There is really no viable third way, we homins alone cannot defeat the Kitin, let alone either faction.
