05-05-2016, 10:32 AM
(05-05-2016, 10:28 AM)wfmyers1207 Wrote:(05-04-2016, 04:28 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Yes, they'd want the relic, but they want it because it's powerful.
Likewise, the seven knights decided to hide it because it's powerful.
My point was that the reason it was hidden from the royals and why it's coveted by the power-seeking today is what it can do. Not any religious significance it may have.
The whole argument about using the stick for good or evil is a huge can of worms. If you used it to save someone's life but that someone was the dictator of a genocidal regime, would that be good or evil? Personally, I'd love it if the stick could sense the evil in the souls of those who wanted to use it or those it was about to be used on, but I'm not holding my breath expecting that as a plot point.
OK, that is a fair point. Most people in these times are not as driven by religious belief as they were in the 13th century. Even those who are believers.
As for your point about what might constitute a good or an evil use of such a relic I am reminded of a true story. This one brings up a whole barrel of worms!
When he was 14 years old, Adolf Hitler got drunk for the first and only time in his life. He passed out in a ditch staggering home. A young farm maid passing by found him and took him home. If she had decided to leave him there, considering this was mountain country in November, he would have almost certainly died of hypothermia.
Did she do a good or an evil thing?
And this story is true. Adolf Hitler told it on himself to some of his cronies back in the day. There is a transcript of it taken down by his secretary at the time.
Not to mention the farmer was a Jew...and Adolf always remember how poor he was and how the Jews had more
The maid did not know that this youth would turn evilall she saw was a young boy who needed help, which proved to be the biggest mistake in history