The thing about pre-written destinies or prophecies or whatever you'd wanna call them is that there's too high of a chance that they'll get misinterpreted and the people who know the truth won't bother saying so. That's more what I'm against than anything else.
[A beat.] I've never been a fan. That's not how I'm going to run my world either.
[There's an interested noise though.] What exactly happened back where you're from?
Kind of complicated to explain, but... [Well, people don't ask him to explain stuff in canon all the time for nothing. He sighs, thinking it over for a few moments.]
Basically, a saint in our past found a way to predict the future. She read it all, wrote it all out in advance and called it the Score. Over millenia, that brought various forms of religions formed around it, as well as plenty of wars for the sake of prophecy. Organizations were set up outside of public knowledge to make sure the Score would always come true, assuming it to be the best path for the entire world.
The average person dealt with it just fine. They didn't know any better. But a lot of people lost their lives for the sake of keeping the Score on track, and a lot more died when the entire system was eventually challenged by someone on the complete opposite side -- someone who had been hurt enough by the Score that they were willing to completely destroy the known world to unshackle mankind's future, including everyone who had originally lived in it. No original life, no original future left to follow.
[The fact that Cunning isn't moving means Guy has their rapt attention, and it's easy for them to follow along with the explanation. There's a moment's pause as they try to process everything that's been said.]
Sounds familiar enough. So what side of things are you and Luke on? Score, or Scoreless? Doesn't sound like much of a future anyway if it's written out for you.
There's something to be said about making your own future when your world's been conditioned to think otherwise. I definitely didn't know better for a while. Not until things started getting turned upside down. But while I empathize with the other extreme more than a lot of people on Auldrant, I couldn't agree with the absolute destruction that his ideals would bring about. How did Anise put it... That he hated the Score so much, he was shackled by it more than anyone else?
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Just because there's a future written into the planet itself doesn't make it the only future. You can live outside the boundaries of fate without having to completely dismantle life.
You just have to actually live, and keep on living.
[And there, in its entirety, lies most of the purpose of his wish.]
You've sort of stumbled right into what kind of world I'm designing. I'm not ready to make a world where people are bound by their destiny with zero escape, but rather a world that's fair and people can live their own lives. It's disappointing to know that there're multiple worlds this kind of thing's happening, but I'd make that stop.
Maybe a little of both. Out of anybody, I guess you could say Piety and I are polar opposites. [Bemused.] I don't necessarily agree with the ideas, and they don't agree with my methods...it's just another reason this game exists.
Funny how that works though, isn't it? The goals are pretty in-line, but nobody can agree on a solid set of rules.
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[A beat.] I've never been a fan. That's not how I'm going to run my world either.
[There's an interested noise though.] What exactly happened back where you're from?
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Basically, a saint in our past found a way to predict the future. She read it all, wrote it all out in advance and called it the Score. Over millenia, that brought various forms of religions formed around it, as well as plenty of wars for the sake of prophecy. Organizations were set up outside of public knowledge to make sure the Score would always come true, assuming it to be the best path for the entire world.
The average person dealt with it just fine. They didn't know any better. But a lot of people lost their lives for the sake of keeping the Score on track, and a lot more died when the entire system was eventually challenged by someone on the complete opposite side -- someone who had been hurt enough by the Score that they were willing to completely destroy the known world to unshackle mankind's future, including everyone who had originally lived in it. No original life, no original future left to follow.
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Sounds familiar enough. So what side of things are you and Luke on? Score, or Scoreless? Doesn't sound like much of a future anyway if it's written out for you.
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There's something to be said about making your own future when your world's been conditioned to think otherwise. I definitely didn't know better for a while. Not until things started getting turned upside down. But while I empathize with the other extreme more than a lot of people on Auldrant, I couldn't agree with the absolute destruction that his ideals would bring about. How did Anise put it... That he hated the Score so much, he was shackled by it more than anyone else?
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Just because there's a future written into the planet itself doesn't make it the only future. You can live outside the boundaries of fate without having to completely dismantle life.
You just have to actually live, and keep on living.
[And there, in its entirety, lies most of the purpose of his wish.]
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You've sort of stumbled right into what kind of world I'm designing. I'm not ready to make a world where people are bound by their destiny with zero escape, but rather a world that's fair and people can live their own lives. It's disappointing to know that there're multiple worlds this kind of thing's happening, but I'd make that stop.
That's ultimately why I want to win.
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I suppose their ideas might seem a little lukewarm to you, though, or yours extreme to them.
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Funny how that works though, isn't it? The goals are pretty in-line, but nobody can agree on a solid set of rules.