Oh, I do know how it feels.
I would think, as a resident of Providence, you would know what itās like to have an invading power attack you, destroy all that youāve worked to build, and squat in your homes, take all you had and claim that your attempts to take it back somehow make you the aggressor, make you the invader hell-bent on theft and plunder.
And yet still you insist on pushing that narrative, over an injury far worse than the taking of a single region. My people are fighting and dying to be free on Thebeka. And you are fighting to ensure that the invaders and despoilers of my home continue to keep what they have stolen.
You ask what I think of all the othersā¦ I think the others have not seen what you have. They have not lived what you have. They have not suffered precisely the indignity and wound that you have. They donāt know what you know. Are they small? Yes, but they are true to their experiences. CVA, of all of the Empireās Paladins, has the perspective to understand a fraction of what the Empire is to us.
Imagine if Pandemic Legion had not abused you for months, or even a couple of decades, but a dozen centuries. Imagine, too, if after retaking part of Providence, you had to be lectured by PL about how you had no justification to try to undo the rest of their assault upon you. If you, with your NRDS policy of welcoming others and attempting to foster polite, civil interaction and reasonable social bonds between disparate groups, were the ones painted as āsavagesā by the beasts that brought nothing but blood and fire, all for their own pleasure.
Tell me, Warden Saltz, what opinion you would hold of those who had a taste of what you had suffered, and yet still insisted on clinging to Pandemic Legionās lies. What opinion would you hold of those who shed the blood of your kin in the name of maintaining their own power and called that ājusticeā?
