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[travellyr]

So Min/Zenthus got me reading Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire. I highly recommend it, as it's very funny. I also recommend reading it from the beginning, as a lot of the jokes build over three or four strips, and the plot builds over ten or twelve of them. I warn you: the entire Deegan family and Dominic's familiar tend to make HORRIBLE puns.

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[erythros]

... I don't think she reminds me overmuch of a Graycloak, but that just may be because she knows the histories of gods, and Graycloaks don't really care about any history, even their own

[travellyr]

her entire world considers her setradasa, really. She IS unclean as her world reckons it, and this is why, despite being able to read the books of the gods, something that would make anyone ELSE high priest of just about everything if not the Messiah, she is not and can never be a cleric. At all. Because she is unclean. Oh, someone will waffle about "balance" and "cycle" and all, but not during her lifetime. Or even her Unlifetime.

This is why her face is tattooed. They are warnings. She is unclean. She is Necromancer, one who deals not in death, but in dead things. In decay. In removing decay from the cycle of returning to life by going in the other direction. She may not enter through the main gates of any temple or manor house, only through the side or back; she is only allowed inside a sanctuary by special dispensation, and is not to touch the holy water, because they think she'll foul it. This is not true. Holy water and Nell do nothing to each other except one gets the other wet. Still, most people THINK it does

[erythros]

I had understood that Nell thought about the rules before she disobeyed them. Is this not, then, the case? If so, if she just obeys the rules because the scripture said "do this", then Yama would have no use for her. Most people know the rules, even if they do not know that they know them, and still obey them without really thinking about it, because thinking would hurt their widdle heads. Yama thinks this is waffle worse than just being Evil. One is responsible for one's own actions, and must know why one does anything, even if that knowing is merely "this feels like it would be awesome."

That is because Yama has had enough of doing things because People Say So. I blame Siddharsvara.

[travellyr]

No, Nell obeys not because Doctrine Says So, but because she knows WHY Doctrine Says So. For every rule worth following, there is a legitimate reason why it was made. She knows them all. Some of the rules she follows because she is geased that way- and those are the tattoos on her hands and feet. She may not mutilate corpses. She may not attach dead flesh to living (the exception being sympathy, the property of things belonging to each other, so she may REATTACH dead flesh to living, such as attaching a severed limb. The catch is that a live person has an Undead arm). There are places she may not walk, though I don't know what they are.

No, she does not think about the Rules before obeying them, but neither does she obey them because someone said to. As for secular rules (and the pieces of doctrine) that exist purely "because I said so"... Nell follows them as far as they suit her, then politely says "ah," and bows her head, and goes around them.