[HQ Ignorance] [Fwd: Re : Re : Re : Re : Scene 124: The General's Demands]

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> - "That's probably where you fail." answers Azhur frankly but quietly. "If
> people are made of matter, they are also made of something more generally
> called Soul, Essence or Spirit. Not taking care about this fact, is caring
> only about the half of your people (and on these words, Azhur doesn't even
> mention about the way the General is taking care about the bodies of the
> puppets!). The best proof I may produce is that during the time of the
> Maker, you were in charge of one half, while the magician was in charge of
> the other half. At this time, everything was harmonious. Now both half is
> fighting the other one and this discord is simply killing puppetland..."

The General look at Azhur sternly. "A debate over metaphysics is something
you'll get from the Magician. The demand I give to you is to go and defeat
him."

> The Elected King of New Seshnela gave then a very serious and penetrating
> gaze to the General.
> - "If you plan to win the war by neglecting or, worse, by destroying the
> other half, then you are just planing a suicide. The same is valuable for
> the magician. A spiritual being without materiality is nothing more than a
> specter. Who would want to rule a land of statues deprived of
> spirituality? and who would like to rule a land of specters deprived of
> any materialistic reality, any interaction with the real world, any
> sensuality, any possibility to shape the reality? Don't you agree..?"

As if on call, there is a whirl and a click, and the corpus of Kalen
Ironhand walks into the room.

"There! Good puppet!", exclaims The General, reaching down and adjusting
the Mostal's cloak.

"You have a map, you have a location. I have been most generous King of
Seshnela. Now go and defeat the Magician for me and Puppetland shall be
returned to the proper order of things."