Gingkage
Wolf Rider
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So, I hope to have all of my L&L's finished by end of the year. Yay, resolutions made six days late! To that end, World Without Magic has a new update. And this one requires some explanations.
I know that music is not technically magic. Not as the game defines it (Bard classes don't exist in DF, but that's magic being used through music, and not music being magical in and of itself even if they did, though that's irrelevant because they don't). But it's been my belief for years that music is the most powerful form of magic. Music, even more than writing (which I also believe to be a type of magic) can bring us to feel so many things. A song can bring us to dance, or bring us to tears. I've even heard that Rite of Spring, when it was first played, drove people to riot. The same song, depending on the mood of the listener, can make a person feel different things. I personally have been comforted by a song that has brought me close to tears. Is it, technically, magic? No. But I wouldn't say it's not magic, either.
When I started this story, I was prepared to eventually paint the Rose as the evil people they really are. Then I actually started writing and came to a few realizations. One, I can argue for anything, even the Rose not being evil. Two, that in order to write something that was actually decent, to do the story justice, I had to be open minded about what I was writing on. I had to have a sympathetic outlook towards the Rose. The story demanded it.
So to that end, I read dialogue of characters. Starting with Jaania. She's very passionate about the harm magic has done, yes. But not once does she say she wants to destroy it. To me, at least, her dialogue reads more as her being determined to do whatever it took to stop corrupt magic users, not destroy magic in its entirety (which makes more sense for a mage to think, anyway in my opinion).
Then I did some more thinking. Yes, we've seen a lot of the ugly side of the Rose. But we've also seen people who are good and genuinely seem to believe they're doing the right thing. I think that as an organization, the Rose is made up of different types of people. You have people who want to help others, and think that stopping magic is the right way to do it. And then you have people who are simply bullies and are using the power the Rose brings them to put others down, and the authority the uniform has to get away with it. Then there seems to be a third type of member. The type that, from what we've seen at least, is just plain evil.
On the flip side, we have Kara's resistance. So far, all the people we've seen in it have been good. Wanting to stop the Evil Rose from destroying magic. Realistically, that can't be all there is to their members. We've never seen them, but I think that there have to be some people who are corrupt. Who are as bad as Akanthus or Z. Personally, I hope that there are people like that, and that we'll get to see them. If the Rose and the Resistance are two sides of a coin, and the Rose has good and bad members, then the Resistance group has to have the same variety.
Just my two cents on this.
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