Tuesday, January 3, 2017

The Crusader and the Priestess: strange bedfellows?

The Crusader and the Priestess, as well as their patron gods, are ultimately on the same side: the side of Ma'at. They serve order, balance, and justice, though in dramatically different ways. The Crusader, viewed in the most positive light, is a morally ambiguous man who makes difficult moral decisions.

But Order and Balance are not necessarily the same thing. If left unchecked by Balance and unopposed by Chaos, Order would ultimately petrify the universe like a fly in amber.

Since the current age is one where Chaos is ascendant, then Order and Balance work together to oppose it. But in another age this could quite easily turn around, and the heroes would be recast as freedom fighters against an oppressive regime.

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