Gaby
Lord of Altera
alright.
so I've heard ppl started hating on engem tribe because they went and "raided lydel twice"
this rumor is INACCURATE.
THATS WHAT A RUMOR IS SUPPOSED TO BE
MYTH. LIES. EXAGGERATION!
what I know is fact is that Morna Rhett, a known murderer who was working as barkeep in Lydel, was captured.
the Engems captured her for her obvious crimes.
thats literally the only thing I can verify as truth.
if your character hears this rumor ic and is all "I hate the engems!" because of it, cool.
BUT HARASSING ENGEMS BECAUSE OF AN IC ACTION WHICH THEY DID NOT EVEN DO
IS NOT OK
the Engems are an organization of many people. people with flaws, and a great deal of anger about many injustices.
(their bias against moor elves, in case you're wondering, is because a moor elf city captured the original engems, enslaved them, and ate their bodies.)
they're justified in their anger. just as anyone who hates the engems ic would be justified.
irl, they're pretty chill people! (I mean hey, they decided to make a society thats militant about racial equality, thats some cool stuff) (course if you have some negative opinion of them ooc, like you think they powergame of something, w/ever)
you shouldn't be sending them angry pms and going "wow, screw those engem jerks! ra ra down with engem."
because not cool dude.
not cool
they're roleplaying. we're all roleplaying.
calm down.
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slightly off topic, but also important:
and say the Engems actually did do what the rumor said. they went and burned down an innocent town to capture prisoners. ok. lots of governments do that. the engems have their reasons for doing so,
but one could say such a hypothetical decision would be morally bankrupt, pretty easily.
STILL NO REASON TO ARGUE OR HATE THEM OOC
listen here, evil characters aren't pretty. they don't all dashingly twirl their mustaches with pizzazz or gayly do a song and dance about how they're going to ruin the protagonist's life. they don't cackle maniacally after deviously scheming their evil plan. they don't seek the ruin of everyone around them. they don't go and kick a dog because they didn't fill their evil quota for the day.
at least, they don't in Altera.
they think themselves in the right, no matter what they do. they go to great lengths to justify their motivations, so they don't feel remorse when they kill innocents. they will have friends who will defend them, they have power to do as they feel, and they will, for all intents and purposes, look utterly justified if you put their actions in a certain perspective.
take, for example, Frankenstein's monster (from the book). he kills a lot of people, ruins his own creator's life, and consistently acts with malice and hatred. however, he has reasons for doing so. literally everyone is biased against him because of his appearance, even his own creator. everything he does, he does for perceived revenge against his creator. though he is definitely a villain, his morality isn't broken. in fact, it's incredibly strong. he sees himself slighted in an unjust world, and at the end of his crimes, he feels so guilty and remorseful, that he can no longer see any point in living anymore.
it's a fact of life, that people have a hard time having characters make moral decisions that they don't agree with. thankfully, we've had enough conflicting viewpoints and randomly violent characters and Scardrac to give us some degree of conflict on this server,
but the heroes still outnumber the villains at least 2 to 1.
if we want more villains in Altera, we have to stop stigmatizing characters doing unsavory things! I mean yeah, when people are jerks ooc, it sucks, but please try and make the distinction between not only you and your character, but also other people and theirs!
(this does not only apply to characters explicitly designated as villains. this also applies to any character that does something a little... off. be they good, evil, or neutral)
so I've heard ppl started hating on engem tribe because they went and "raided lydel twice"
this rumor is INACCURATE.
THATS WHAT A RUMOR IS SUPPOSED TO BE
MYTH. LIES. EXAGGERATION!
what I know is fact is that Morna Rhett, a known murderer who was working as barkeep in Lydel, was captured.
the Engems captured her for her obvious crimes.
thats literally the only thing I can verify as truth.
if your character hears this rumor ic and is all "I hate the engems!" because of it, cool.
BUT HARASSING ENGEMS BECAUSE OF AN IC ACTION WHICH THEY DID NOT EVEN DO
IS NOT OK
the Engems are an organization of many people. people with flaws, and a great deal of anger about many injustices.
(their bias against moor elves, in case you're wondering, is because a moor elf city captured the original engems, enslaved them, and ate their bodies.)
they're justified in their anger. just as anyone who hates the engems ic would be justified.
irl, they're pretty chill people! (I mean hey, they decided to make a society thats militant about racial equality, thats some cool stuff) (course if you have some negative opinion of them ooc, like you think they powergame of something, w/ever)
you shouldn't be sending them angry pms and going "wow, screw those engem jerks! ra ra down with engem."
because not cool dude.
not cool
they're roleplaying. we're all roleplaying.
calm down.
--
slightly off topic, but also important:
and say the Engems actually did do what the rumor said. they went and burned down an innocent town to capture prisoners. ok. lots of governments do that. the engems have their reasons for doing so,
but one could say such a hypothetical decision would be morally bankrupt, pretty easily.
STILL NO REASON TO ARGUE OR HATE THEM OOC
listen here, evil characters aren't pretty. they don't all dashingly twirl their mustaches with pizzazz or gayly do a song and dance about how they're going to ruin the protagonist's life. they don't cackle maniacally after deviously scheming their evil plan. they don't seek the ruin of everyone around them. they don't go and kick a dog because they didn't fill their evil quota for the day.
at least, they don't in Altera.
they think themselves in the right, no matter what they do. they go to great lengths to justify their motivations, so they don't feel remorse when they kill innocents. they will have friends who will defend them, they have power to do as they feel, and they will, for all intents and purposes, look utterly justified if you put their actions in a certain perspective.
take, for example, Frankenstein's monster (from the book). he kills a lot of people, ruins his own creator's life, and consistently acts with malice and hatred. however, he has reasons for doing so. literally everyone is biased against him because of his appearance, even his own creator. everything he does, he does for perceived revenge against his creator. though he is definitely a villain, his morality isn't broken. in fact, it's incredibly strong. he sees himself slighted in an unjust world, and at the end of his crimes, he feels so guilty and remorseful, that he can no longer see any point in living anymore.
it's a fact of life, that people have a hard time having characters make moral decisions that they don't agree with. thankfully, we've had enough conflicting viewpoints and randomly violent characters and Scardrac to give us some degree of conflict on this server,
but the heroes still outnumber the villains at least 2 to 1.
if we want more villains in Altera, we have to stop stigmatizing characters doing unsavory things! I mean yeah, when people are jerks ooc, it sucks, but please try and make the distinction between not only you and your character, but also other people and theirs!
(this does not only apply to characters explicitly designated as villains. this also applies to any character that does something a little... off. be they good, evil, or neutral)
