Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24685738-20170702143317/@comment-5583506-20170705175924

Apollo42 wrote: Rhaela's face screwed up, ignoring Taeris' attempts at bringing peace. "My fair Empire? Oh, honey, it's not the empire that's the problem. The issue is with human nature, and there will always be sick and depraved people who systematically do horrible things to other people." She laughed, shortly. "You think that giving power into the hands of the poor and oppressed will change anything? No, it will just cause the horrors to be exacted onto a different group of people."

Her eyes turned to Meilir, and then Arctus, and the other noblemen. All good people. She looked to Donnel, and Tyrus, and the other peasants. All good people.

"That is never going to change." She said, softly. "Human nature doesn't change." Catryn shook her head at the princess and turned her back on her. She was getting more and more frustrated with the princess to the point where she was willing to take Torbjorn, Shanks and Tyrus and leave the cave. Leave the woman to her fate, whatever it might be.

"Human nature doesn't change, huh? Then it should."

She had believed that Arik and his sister would be cut from the same cloth, but the more she listened ot Rhaela, the more she began to see why she shouldn't be surprised over the fact that Aerion had gone mad. The sister and him probably had more in common than she was willing to admit.

Glad that they at least have one sane member in that family, she reflected, casting a swift glance upon Arik.

"It's no wonder the world looks the way it is when we have people like you passing judgement over who is good and who is bad", Catryn said sternly. "All you've ever known in your life was the golden potty upon which you were trained to sit. Tell me then, princess, you who obviously have so much better judgement than me, a bastard of two worlds. Have you ever held someone who was dying of illness in the streets? While the city guards were idly watching, not lifting a finger to help the very people they were sworn to protect? Have you ever seen a baker get beaten into a bloody pulp just because he wasn't quick enough to bow before the nobleman passed in his carriage? A farmer's family run off their land to make way for a new estate with a vineyard? A bride's virginity forcefully claimed by some unknown lord, because he believed it was his right? Human nature doesn't change because people like you prevent it to change."