Discourse for Truth

JP with Voah and Gonyaul:

Gonyaul began explaining his entire train of thought regarding the matter. He spoke with childlike curiosity and genuine humility. He wasn’t trying to sound like he knew what he was talking about or that he had the answers yet. He came across as someone eager and thirsty to discover the truth. It also seemed he trusted that Voah was one able to help with that process.

It must have been an interesting sight. He had not titles, authority over others or important matters, nothing that made him stand out according to the world’s standards as qualified. The ‘Rabbit’ was simply just preparing rabbit and simultaneously holding a discourse on how the universe might work.

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Voah sat transfixed by Gonyaul’s snowball of open contemplation about the ideas of moral absolutes from the perspective of a believer in Kagim, which she understood as some abstract concept that was perhaps the idea of worldly balance and harmony.

Right and wrong, good and evil, these things she had been contemplating lately and how Omen claimed to be beyond both.

The Pillars were the Arbiter’s source of truth when it came to morality and, to the faithful, there were clear tenets charged to the prophets of humanity on the nature of such things as good and evil.

The one tenet that was agreed above all was “Do my prophets no harm, and suffer not the witch to live.” It was taught that sorcery was to be smitten down as an enemy of the faith. But there were greater mysteries that she was not privy to, for instance, when this tenet was fortold, why the faithful allowed societies of magik in the past to even exist for as long as they did, why the genocide was never taught, even the very question of what specific deity created humanity and whether magik created by mistake or developed from some other source. It was not permitted to ask too many questions during theological training. They left that to the elder theologians who were considered closer to the Gods, especially the prophets of the past. The theologians she had heard of were a council who discussed the deeper meanings and explored the truths. When some of those men and women disappeared, Voah knew it was due to the Purgers condemning and eking out those who would speak of schisms and other unpopular ideas. No word was ever leaked to her ears regarding the exact words and natures of what those ideas were, but she knew that they were likely parallel to her recent thoughts and that she would have to be very careful moving forward.

Voah saw for herself, the evils of the maleficium… but lately she had also seen indifference and even kindness and the desire for understanding from the Odsier and Omen.

“So… I think what your saying is, you believe there is a higher power that commands morality? And that kagim is some kind of balance?” she finally asked.