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the less likely it is someone's going to try to open portals to it and restart the wars which got the Faerie world sealed away to begin with and that the Faeries certainly haven't forgotten about.
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Well, I say conspiracy but in-universe, it's more that everyone outside the organization forgot faeries existed in the first place after the faerie worlds were sealed away generations ago, and the modern Templar think things are safer that way because the fewer people know the Faerie world exists,
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Derek Benz is the author.
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rest of the world.
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beings from the Faerie world escaping to the human world through Max's Codex and the main characters recognizing them from the in-series card game about those creatures used by a secret Templar organization to help induct new members into the conspiracy to obscure the existence of faeries from the
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Book series, and I was referring to the classic undead version of vampires that propagate by infecting people and can't have children because they're undead.
Vlad isn't actually a vampire in that series but there are myths about him being one which aren't crucial to the main plot about mythological
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Vlad is a classic.
Did you know he features in the Grey Griffons series?
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This seems like a good moment to remind you the movie Nefarious is a work of fiction.
Specifically, a horror/thriller in the same vein of Aliens, and as fictional as the Xenomorphs.
Demons existing outside of time reminds me of the Timekeeper demons from 'The Wayfarer Redemption' though.
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in 'The Hobbit').
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It was never properly established why Smaug attacked that past generation of dwarves either.
Maybe they really did give Smaug a good reason for driving them out of that mountain, something other than the obvious of the dwarves having treasures Smaug wanted (as Smaug had treasures the dwarves wanted
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You mean Satan's a Victoria's secret underwear model?
Those are the only angels of light I've seen walking around.
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There's a lot of series using the Dark (or equivalents) as a nemesis, I've read "The Dark is Rising" and "Land of Elyon" too.
Joseph Delaney is quite an inventive storyteller in incorporating fables though, that's why I referenced that series.
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for their immortality and don't deal with nearly as many downsides.
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As an aside:
Seriously, vampires have so many weaknesses its ridiculous. Certain myths also hold they can't cross running water, physically can't cross doorways without explicit permission, and quickly weaken without the soil of their original grave.
Succubi at least only need to drain vitality
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vampires.
And evil, as a seperate conscious entity capable of picking targets, is also fictional.
Evil in realistic usage is a descriptor for undesirable actions that harm people, not a force onto itself.
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Vampire bats don't transform into men wearing cloaks, they're not undead, they don't hate garlic, they don't burn up into ashes in sunlight, and they don't have the lineage weakness where if you kill the progenitor all the other vampires spawned also die so no vampire bats are most certainly not
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That's kind of awkward with how Christian Europe historically sent conquistadors to conquer the American continent, don't you think?
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You're a sun worshipper?
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Cool narrative structure != inherent moral superiority.
Smaug did absolutely nothing to the Hobbits and Gandalf should not have abducted Bilbo and forced him to trek across the countryside on the false premises tbat Gandalf told the dwarves.
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Humans, unlike the fictional Darkness, do plenty of really messed up things in broad daylight.
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No, I've read the Last Apprentice Series, I know all about the Dark and how it's creatures enjoy moving under the cover of night.
Unlike you, apparently, I understood that was fictional.
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on account of bats at least being mammals so it makes more biological sense, but on account of this "darkness=evil" superstition a lot of people assume such a character is meant to be evil just from the wings.
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thinking black cats are evil, along with people vilifying bats (a species I happen to particularly like) and associating them with vampires and succubi, both of which have been similarly vilified in folklore despite not even actually existing.
I prefer humanoids having batlike wings to birdlike
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Yep, you're accusatorily using it as a metaphor for evil.
I am aware of this usage, dislike it, and purposefully interpret it as literal darkness when responding to people because fundamentally, darkness is not evil and the conflation of the two has led to the aforementioned superstition of people
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Yeah, yeah, pick another part of the elephant will you?
I've got a troop of blind men waiting their turn here.
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Do I need to remind you who it was that first brought up "walking in light vs walking in darkness" here?
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Indeed not.
Neither, for that matter, is darkness.
I subscribe to neither superstition.
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Quite ironic you speak of walking in light while I walk in darkness when you make your own profile picture a nighttime scene while I don't, by the way.
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Snap out of the absurd metaphors and speak plainly.
I can see daylight just as well as you can, and there is no moral connection whatsoever to how well someone can see in the dark.
I can see quite well at night, but that is altogether beside the point.
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Are you serious?
Jesus was clearly speaking to townspeople in the villages he was visiting with his travelling troupe in that section.
Am I supposed to take "Woe to Chorazin and Bethsaida" as an imperative command as well?
Do tell me how I am supposed to visit woe upon them.
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I have read the bible, and that particular verse reads "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
Which is an entirely different statement altogether.
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So, have you got a good argument for an ethical reversal on this point, or were you just unaware of that point up until now?
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No, they exist because people would rather give their children money to spend.
Most people consider that MORE ethical than spending all the money and leaving their children none.
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Weird AF to make a post about how you plan to ignore someone, btw.
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These are in fact seperate questions, and the follow-ups are needed because you don't elaborate in sufficient depth.
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So, merely because he has wealth, you consider him responsible for using it to eliminate homelessness.
Must this process continue until he has no more wealth to spend, or is there a point at which you would consider his efforts sufficient short of impoverishing himself?
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Do you consider inheritances unethical?
Humans can't control what their ancestors did to accumulate wealth, but those ancestors can bequeath a pre-existing fortune to them.
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That wasn't Jesus, that was Paul in 2 Thessalonians 3:10.
As well as quite infamously Vladimir Lenin in 'State and Revolution'.
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As well as homeless without tents.
Not all of them have those, the ones I've seen sleeping on sidewalks outside restaurants did not have their own tents to set up.
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How large would you say the local encampment was?
Estimated number of tents.
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Originally in response to Jerome, but I got tired of how unprofessional his behaviour was so I blocked him and moved this to a seperate reply.
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Jerome, you are the out of touch idiot.
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Why not, exactly?
It is just a quantity of money, after all.
Inflation devalues how much a billion can buy every year.
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Which states do you consider Warren Buffet responsible for?
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You know where the block button is, Jerome.
Do try using it yourself if you feel the need instead of trying to provoke other people into doing that for you.
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simply ignored, people tend not to like it when others pretend they don't exist when they're begging for money and food.