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"There'll never be a situation where you can just take a person's intentions for granted because 'hey it's objectively right to be fighting this one thing and objectively wrong to support it.' You'll just about always have to wonder why a person is doing what they're doing: what they want out of it and where those ambitions are taking them. And that should, ideally stand just as true for the players.

''When there isn't some great call to action without exception, 'I'm just getting stronger 'cause i have to' is no longer a valid reason. There's some end you're hoping to achieve. And if it's the defeat of a powerful force, that powerful force is another person, who has had their impact on the world, and you are making yours by opposing them, which is a benefit to person vs person conflict as opposed to like, person vs demon. You win a giant battle with a massive evil demon, people praise that strength and boom, it's an example of all that's good and righteous forever. Two powerful people duke it out, though? You have to figure out which one of them is good by your standards. It isn't an immediately resolved situation just because one of them won, and was clearly right. Other people view it and form their own opinions and the world changes around it."''

~ Patrick Caldwell

"Strange is our situation, here on Ainran."

A scene of a town, presumably Faydale due to its circular shape, passes swiftly over time, people speeding past, night and day falling and rising.

"Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why."

An infant is swaddled in an expensive cloth, then is carried away by a woman.

"Yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose."

''The woman moves to a balcony, now apparent that this is a castle, and she overlooks a lake. Also there is a man dressed in regal attire, who takes the child in his arms and shows him the water below. ''

"From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we know:"

''The earlier scene of Faydale slows down, following a lumberjack, who sells wood to a woodworker. He then begins to walk home.''

"That we are here for the sake of others..."

''He's halted at the sight of a man lying down in the street, barely clothed. He holds out a coin, but notes that the man seems asleep. He lays the coin down before the man''.

"For the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected..."

Shortly after, another man approaches from an alleyway, eyeing the coin and stooping down to reach for it.

"Many times a day, I realize how much of my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead.."

''As he grabs it, he looks over the man, leaning his face over, ear to the man's lips. His body trembles, and the thief tucks the coin in his own pocket. He lifts the man in his arms and begins to carry him.''

"and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received..."

Night falls, and the thief digs away in a local cemetery, making a grave.

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