in tenebris est veritas.
“Let me be clear.” Their voice adopts the grave pitch of a threat. “You may have appeased the leaders of faraway settlements, and you may have convinced a village’s worth of people to uproot themselves in refuge from war. But if you destroy the forest to plant wheat in poor soil, if you insist on bringing people without teaching them to live here properly, you will have made an enemy of me.”
A person’s innocence means little to Chaele if they are guilty of ecological crimes. To the shaman, the land alone is innocent, and they would not hesitate to sabotage and kill in the name of its protection. However reasonable or unreasonable this might seem to Darkeye, Chaele attempts reason still. “The soil is better in King’s End. The fauna will be less disturbed by cropland there. What is so important about settling here?”
A person’s innocence means little to Chaele if they are guilty of ecological crimes. To the shaman, the land alone is innocent, and they would not hesitate to sabotage and kill in the name of its protection. However reasonable or unreasonable this might seem to Darkeye, Chaele attempts reason still. “The soil is better in King’s End. The fauna will be less disturbed by cropland there. What is so important about settling here?”
