Anethion - Light's prophet or a power-hungry demagogue?

*Raises hand as high as she can, standing on tiptoes*

I will my chubby squiddy friend

If I must.

Kristeas Sunbinder wrote:
Misotheism would fit the feeling after the scourge invasion, where they felt that the light abandoned them. Later on, as tempers cooled, they might have thought "what if the light isn't that divine?" and might consider it just a type of magic like elemental or arcane. The Naaru have high skill in the use of light magic, but using that as a proof of the light's divine nature, would be like sending a couple of robots to the stone age and have the cavemen believe that electricity is god (note that humans did that, proof: all them thundergods).

Indeed, the way I see it Misotheism is an awnser to the great Three Pillar question: That of how God (or the divine, whatever) can simaltenously be omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. If the Light is all powerful and sees all, they why did it allow this great evil to overcome us? Screw you, Light, you're an asshole! Once one of the pillars has been knocked down, the step to Atheïsm is taken much easier, I should think.

Edit: Thanks for the enthusiasm, all! I suppose I will make an IC post in the LFG section soon and gather up my motley crew of archeologists.

Thelos wrote:So, in summary:

Due to recent developments, Thelos has begun doubting whether the Anethonian doctrine is actually Lightgiven. As such he is planning to research the Man behind the doctrine, to figure out the source of his wisdom and hopefully find some Lightinspired (or Naaru inspired of course) Revelation in there. Troughout this journey and adventure trough dusty libraries and forgotten archives we will of course keep in touch closely with the author of this information to figure out when and where to recieve certain tidbits of information.

I will most likely begin my search soon and will welcome anyone interested along for the ride.

Well this sounds funn. I will get Dalendra on your back as fast as i can. None will doubt the Chapters beliefs! No will go against our Faith!

Morgaan wrote:
Well this sounds funn. I will get Dalendra on your back as fast as i can. None will doubt the Chapters beliefs! No will go against our Faith!

Sounds like we're going to need some protection too, folks!

Ooooohhh excellent!

Hire some Blades!

Hire Blades and we will Know what you do is Light forsaken and Evil
Its not enough one of you Space goats called our Lectress savage now you want Them to protect you.

Hmm Might be Thelos is a Eredar demon D:

Let Lorainne defend you with her snide remarks. That'll work.
Well, it worked before against the Chapter!

On the other hand Thelos.. if you get Lex onside you will be safe... from the chapter at least.

...Not even the mercenaries can protect you from the moment when you realize that you CANNOT HANDLE THE TRUTH!

And awesome to see such interest, hope you guys will have fun researching and it will give you excuse to travel extensively

The Acherus is right on the doorstep of Stratholme/tyrs hand and Alterac is close to the ruins of Lordaeron. If you want to go fragment hunting.

All right, I will work on selecting several locations which I think would be interesting to investigate. As for the format I'll most likely want to use something akin to Exaythe's last journey to Gilneas, only we "base" ourselves in Light's Hope Chapel and journey from several key locations from there. Either I or someone else will do a bit of Dungeonmastering so we can do things like skeleton-infested libraries or angry Scarlets on the prowl. In other words, we'll want a mix of Indiana Jone style archeology and the Da Vinci Code.

I'll have a seperate thread for this up by the end of the week, anyone who would like to either join as one of the adventurers, potential allies or potential enemies is free to sign up, and we'll see what we can do.

As for the format, perhaps the one in charge (which is looking to be me at the moment) can "reward" the group once we've uncovered a mystery and request a piece of the puzzle from Melnerag, who will select an appropiate fragment for us to read and analyse. How does that sound?

Hmm i can be the Crazy Scarlet thing

Morgaan wrote:Its not enough one of you Space goats called our Lectress savage now you want Them to protect you.

Hmm Might be Thelos is a Eredar demon D:

Mind you it wasn't Thelos who called your Lectress a savage. He's always been very polite to you fine folks over at Northshire Abbey.

Looks good! I might even add a few more juicy fragments over time as EXTRA reward ;D

Da Vinci code you say? *sends witch-hunters to try and murder the group*....oh and unless you solve the mystery in 24 hours the Cathedral of Light will blow up!

*Suffers at work, working overtime, doing boring administration*

LIGHT HAVE MERCY!

*waves at Thelos.*
You can poke me for help.

Btw. I believe 'Savage' is reserved for us.

Lexgrad wrote:Also thanks to Blizz there are one race of DKs missing from the picture largely... High elves. The Earlier population of DKs would be largely human or Helf Paladins who would all be lighty dogs.

Any Belf DKs are most likely to be Acherus made and could be pulled from any part of Belf society, all that is needed is that they died and were recovered by the Scourge. There would be some Pre Acherus DKs ofc but alot of them would be pre sunwell repare job.

My DK was not Archerus made, she died a High Elf, but she sees no reason to call herself such, she is alligned with the Horde and with the Blood Elves and thereforw calls herself Sin'dorei. It's as Kristeas said mostly an ideological nametag. They named themselves blood elves to honor their fallen brethern after all, not because their eyes turned green

Indeed but we dont get them Alliance side There should be lots of Helf DKs on the alliance side.

Lexgrad wrote:Indeed but we dont get them Alliance side There should be lots of Helf DKs on the alliance side.

There were little High Elves to begin with, whatever High Elf DK there is, would be raised form an Argent Dawn or Argent Crusade.

Lots of High Elf DKs on alliance side? If I recall correctly the elves feel betrayed the alliance did not aid them when the scourge invaded Quel'thalas. And I don't know about you, but feeling betrayed and getting killed on the battlefield with no ally coming to your aid... It would make me feel even more resentful xD

Emrys wrote:Lots of High Elf DKs on alliance side? If I recall correctly the elves feel betrayed the alliance did not aid them when the scourge invaded Quel'thalas. And I don't know about you, but feeling betrayed and getting killed on the battlefield with no ally coming to your aid... It would make me feel even more resentful xD

Because Lordaeron hadn't already been razed? Elves were always ignorrant.

Well Lore wise there are 25k High Elves in Stormwind

...And how many h00mans?