danolt wrote:Out of idle curiosity can you actually state why the Kami and Karavan are "hypocritical and dangerous" as opposed to abandoning all homin history and following the path of the self righteous glory and dapper hounds?
Other things were worshippsed before those two things. The Great Spirit of Atys for example. We found a tribe still trying to cling to those old beliefs in our explorations of the old lands recently. So your claim of 'all homin history' is fallacious.
Wealth and glory is our motto, indeed, and these things may be looked down upon by holy and genocidal maniacs but they're honest and open.
The Karavan? They hide behind masks, they fail to share their technology, they bar homin from the deeper roots, perhaps fearing what we might find there. One finds them in the strangest places demanding the strangest tasks and their technology interferes with the planet. They also back up both the goo tribes and the slavers with their powers, whatever the excuses, these are not good things.
The Kami? Much is made of their harming diggers, but those diggers threaten us all when they over dig. Still, it seems harsh when they could just whisk the digger away to some remote part of Atys as punishment instead. Just like the Karavan they demand the strangest things and their hypocrisy was thrown into sharp relief during the war of the temples.
Even Tryton has let us down, he had nothing worthwhile to say during the temple war and only encouraged us to keep the balance, something we try to do I suppose but then he waltzed off into the roots with vague promises, apparently never to return.
All a homin can rely on and trust is themselves and those who have proven worthy of that trust. In the case of the Tryker it seems that the eligable citizens decided to trust the incumbent politicians. Unless any of you lot can stand and want to upset the applecart I'd say that's a pretty good indication of trust for Wyler's legacy, weak though it became in the end.
