[The amount of times people here had asked him that made him realize just how little he really knew about half his heritage.]
I suppose it could be just that, yes. Deryni are a race separate from humans. Really the only difference is the use of magic, and how we react to some....medications. I don't know where we came from though. So much knowledge has been lost. It could have easily been the east or any other direction. But yes, perhaps it was just like that.
[Cruelty existed in both, Kelson would agree. Sometimes madness ran in families, but sometimes madness and cruelty just were. And try as he might, part of him believed that as much as Deryni were persecuted, they did it to themselves.]
Magic is the same as any skill, just like being good with a sword or having a knack for languages. It doesn't make someone special, it's just part of what the can do.
[It wasn't hard to realize Kelson had made a wrong turn.]
I don't know about the smallfolk but I don't think something that horrific should be named like a battle or a great victory. I can imagine who thought of the name. You name things that deserve honor. There was no honor behind that.
[He certainly wasn't naming such things after his own wedding. Red Wedding indeed. The more he learned about her world, the more he disliked it.]
Then I pray they will suffer the consequences in the afterlife, if not before.
[Real world justice was always preferable. Vengeance wasn't the answer but he still found some deaths liberating.]
I shan't argue with you. Guilt and our own views of what is and isn't a sin is individual. I have noticed however that even if certain events had not happened, others were bound to take place. You cannot change individual natures.
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I suppose it could be just that, yes. Deryni are a race separate from humans. Really the only difference is the use of magic, and how we react to some....medications. I don't know where we came from though. So much knowledge has been lost. It could have easily been the east or any other direction. But yes, perhaps it was just like that.
[Cruelty existed in both, Kelson would agree. Sometimes madness ran in families, but sometimes madness and cruelty just were. And try as he might, part of him believed that as much as Deryni were persecuted, they did it to themselves.]
Magic is the same as any skill, just like being good with a sword or having a knack for languages. It doesn't make someone special, it's just part of what the can do.
[It wasn't hard to realize Kelson had made a wrong turn.]
I don't know about the smallfolk but I don't think something that horrific should be named like a battle or a great victory. I can imagine who thought of the name. You name things that deserve honor. There was no honor behind that.
[He certainly wasn't naming such things after his own wedding. Red Wedding indeed. The more he learned about her world, the more he disliked it.]
Then I pray they will suffer the consequences in the afterlife, if not before.
[Real world justice was always preferable. Vengeance wasn't the answer but he still found some deaths liberating.]
I shan't argue with you. Guilt and our own views of what is and isn't a sin is individual. I have noticed however that even if certain events had not happened, others were bound to take place. You cannot change individual natures.