Makes sense. And it looks like we just confirmed those misgivings.
Has Aletheia always been like this? Monty told me about them meeting and how she gave him a sword but I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that he might be biased.
I've only spoken with her once before, the last time she spoke to us over the network. My partner met her in person as well, a while back, and I think he came away with a very different picture of her than Lord Navarro did.
Aletheia has never been less than perfectly honest about who and what she is. I don't think it's possible for her to do otherwise. What she hasn't been forthcoming about is what she means.
But yes, she's stated her intent plainly now. I suppose the next question is "now what?" Or "why do we have a shrine of her in the first place?"
...Why IS that here? That's never made much sense to me. Like, ah yes, and over here is the orb that we don't go near, as it could either depower or kill you. Is that from the Historians?
Detective Castellanos was about as happy to be put through a twisted game as I was, and he's never been exactly trusting of what she told him. I'm sure you can use your imagination for the exact phrasing.
We certainly didn't put it here. It showed up here with the rest of the fortress, right after Aletheia's "game" ended. Its purpose was discovered on accident, and we've kept our distance from it sense.
The Historians do hold Aletheia in reverence, so it's very likely that they put it here originally.
[...Clearly he didn't read all of Monty's accounts. Or he did, but might have missed some context or...no, wait, he thinks he gets the idea of where this is from.]
"Appeared with the fortress"? This was during that stint where you guys tried to free Aletheia, right? I always meant to read through it but never get around to it.
I'm starting to think that the Hedonists were right, for once.
Not all of us. Five of us. Sort of like what happened to you at the mountain.
I don't know about the Hedonists being right. Aletheia does have a point about our use of resources-- eventually, we need to stop relying on delusions and find some real source of sustenance, like we did with the aqueduct.
But she believes only in absolute truth, and they believe in nothing but delusions. The real world isn't so cut and dry and ideologically pure.
Exactly. If she's trying to usurp what reality should be, I realize you may not like it, but helping Sophia might be our only chance, if we can. Aletheia might even try to kill her and I don't want to think about how that could make things even worse.
What we need is more information to go on. We still know almost nothing about Sophia, besides what she's the avatar of. She could have her own destructive agenda that we aren't aware of. I don't think we should be blindly devoting ourselves to any so-called deities when we've barely got our feet on the ground.
Don't worry. This isn't blind devotion I'm talking about.
And you're right about needing more information, but you're a detective as well. I've been looking at Monty's account on Aletheia's rescue and looking at it in this new light is...well.
I wasn't referring to the Hedonists being right about living on delusion alone. I'm saying it's possible that Aletheia might have been involved in the end of the world. Although, you're right that it's too soon to say that for certain. I'm just bringing it up as a possibility.
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I feel as if this changes things slightly. What do you make of this?
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It goes back to something that Sophia said to me when I was stuck in her Game-- something about a path between Truth and Delusion.
Before that, though, I've always had my misgivings about what Aletheia calls "Absolute Truth."
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Has Aletheia always been like this? Monty told me about them meeting and how she gave him a sword but I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that he might be biased.
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Aletheia has never been less than perfectly honest about who and what she is. I don't think it's possible for her to do otherwise. What she hasn't been forthcoming about is what she means.
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But yes, she's stated her intent plainly now. I suppose the next question is "now what?" Or "why do we have a shrine of her in the first place?"
...Why IS that here? That's never made much sense to me. Like, ah yes, and over here is the orb that we don't go near, as it could either depower or kill you. Is that from the Historians?
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We certainly didn't put it here. It showed up here with the rest of the fortress, right after Aletheia's "game" ended. Its purpose was discovered on accident, and we've kept our distance from it sense.
The Historians do hold Aletheia in reverence, so it's very likely that they put it here originally.
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"Appeared with the fortress"? This was during that stint where you guys tried to free Aletheia, right? I always meant to read through it but never get around to it.
I'm starting to think that the Hedonists were right, for once.
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I don't know about the Hedonists being right. Aletheia does have a point about our use of resources-- eventually, we need to stop relying on delusions and find some real source of sustenance, like we did with the aqueduct.
But she believes only in absolute truth, and they believe in nothing but delusions. The real world isn't so cut and dry and ideologically pure.
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What we need is more information to go on. We still know almost nothing about Sophia, besides what she's the avatar of. She could have her own destructive agenda that we aren't aware of. I don't think we should be blindly devoting ourselves to any so-called deities when we've barely got our feet on the ground.
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And you're right about needing more information, but you're a detective as well. I've been looking at Monty's account on Aletheia's rescue and looking at it in this new light is...well.
I wasn't referring to the Hedonists being right about living on delusion alone. I'm saying it's possible that Aletheia might have been involved in the end of the world. Although, you're right that it's too soon to say that for certain. I'm just bringing it up as a possibility.