[Just like that the irritation is gone, replaced by a quiet, hollow laugh of his own.]
I don't deliver sermons, Lobelia. The most clerical work I do outside of my duties as inquisitor is reciting scripture to children with paper plays. If I am ever asked to lend a word of wisdom, I ask for them to analyze the world around them and come to their own conclusions.
But...what you say does still ring true. There is little left for me within the church anymore. I had just temporarily stepped away from my duties before I ended up here, as it so happens.
My, you never fail to mince words, do you? [Seriously. Wow? Wow.] But I suppose some of the more devout followers would say the same. What sort of self-respecting cleric actively encourages doubting the very gods they're meant to serve?
[Oh well.]
Do you recall what I said at the first meeting I called everyone to? I had solved a string of murders within the church. I wished to continue pursuing the organization behind it all.
It's astounding that a hรฉrรฉtique like you has yet to be tarred and feathered and set aflame! Perhaps the gods are more fond of you than you realize?
[Lobelia doubts it, laughing openly.]
You'd be better off dropping all pretense and pursuing your true desires. I know your kind is eager to auto-flagellรฉ, but isn't that a bit too unseemly?
Hm? Do you think I've been living a lie just as you have?
[The thought makes him snicker, but it's not like Temenos is that far off base.]
To live life as I had, it became necessary to sequester myself away from the outside world. Had I not, the lesser of my crimes would surely have come to light.
[But the big ones? Those would never be blamed on anything but natural disasters, of that Lobelia is certain.]
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[Just like that the irritation is gone, replaced by a quiet, hollow laugh of his own.]
I don't deliver sermons, Lobelia. The most clerical work I do outside of my duties as inquisitor is reciting scripture to children with paper plays. If I am ever asked to lend a word of wisdom, I ask for them to analyze the world around them and come to their own conclusions.
But...what you say does still ring true. There is little left for me within the church anymore. I had just temporarily stepped away from my duties before I ended up here, as it so happens.
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[So he says with no small amount of glee. Temenos sure had strayed far from God's light, hasn't he? More importantly, how much further can he fall?]
Ah, but what was it that prompted you to step away? Had the lack of answered prayers simply been too much to bear?
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[Oh well.]
Do you recall what I said at the first meeting I called everyone to? I had solved a string of murders within the church. I wished to continue pursuing the organization behind it all.
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[Lobelia doubts it, laughing openly.]
You'd be better off dropping all pretense and pursuing your true desires. I know your kind is eager to auto-flagellรฉ, but isn't that a bit too unseemly?
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[He may be a lousy cleric going by the strictest definition, but he is an incredible inquisitor.
Lobelia's advice isn't really all that welcome, but Temenos doesn't immediately shoot it down, either. He just lets out a small huff.]
"Dropping all pretense"... And I imagine you are speaking from experience.
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[The thought makes him snicker, but it's not like Temenos is that far off base.]
To live life as I had, it became necessary to sequester myself away from the outside world. Had I not, the lesser of my crimes would surely have come to light.
[But the big ones? Those would never be blamed on anything but natural disasters, of that Lobelia is certain.]