Silver arrived back at the castle, but Fast did not follow them inside, "Catch you two later!" And she was off in a flash back out into the city.
Silver perked an ear towards her, "She forgot something?"
Night shook her head, "She's still in the academy you just finished leaving."
Silver gave a soft ah, "I forgot about that. Remind me to ask her how that's going. She was there when we first got there, maybe she's going to graduate soon?"
Night gave a noncommittal nod before nudging against Silver, "You forgot what I said too didn't you?"
Silver froze in place. He had no idea what Night Watch referred to.
Night rolled her eyes at his rigid form, "You're not in trouble, yet. I'm not going to lay around waiting to get all fat. I've been searching around town, and the train yard needed a night watchpony. I start two days from now. That OK?"
Silver perked an ear, "At night? Oh, well, I guess I don't even know when my new classes will be, but yeah, go ahead. This is important for you." He smiled gently, "You wouldn't stop me."
Night bared her fangs, "I might try, if I thought you'd get hurt."
Silver leaned in and kissed her on the nose, "You are my rock. Thank you."
Night snorted, "Compared to you two, maybe. Just don't do anything too rash in your new school. I'm pretty sure this is your last chance before you won't have anywhere left to turn." She extended a wing and draped it over Silver, pulling him tight with it. "I'm not sure how much pony biology you've picked up yet, but I will be needing you in about a year."
Silver snuggled up against Night. Her wing was so comfortable, and the rest of her delightful in contrast, "I don't plan on going anywhere, except to Luna's right now. I want to know where my folks ran off to."
Night let him go, trotting off towards their room after a parting kiss. Silver moved off towards Luna's quarters as Night's words sank in. About a year? "I'm going to be a father," he said to himself in a giddy tone.
One of the day guards raised a brow down at him and Silver flushed, "What? It's true..." The guard made no attempt to add to the one-sided conversation, so Silver rushed ahead, only for a hoof to snag around his withers from the side and pull him into a dark room. The door slammed shut behind him.
Silver let the magic flow, lighting the room in silvery light to reveal a night guard, a large female one with a frown. She nudged Silver lightly, "So you're the one that has Luna all lovestruck? You don't look that special."
Silver blinked softly as he took in her form. She was much larger than him, and her armor only made her more intimidating, to say nothing of her long fangs and slit eyes, no matter how much he derived a dirty thrill when his wife used them. "Hello? Have we met?"
"I should think not," spoke the guard before she nudged him again, "Stop bothering Luna. You are distracting her, and your... seed is beneath the all-mother's calibre. She can do better than you."
Silver flipped one ear back, "Isn't that up for her t--"
The guard advanced on Silver, knocking him over in his attempt to scramble away from her. "I am charged with her intimate safety. I tolerated it while she used you as a toy, but her season approaches, and I am not blind. She wishes to lay with you, and you don't have the manners to hold back your fertility."
Silver tried to scramble away from her, but her wings spread, keeping him penned in. "What do you mean, 'hold back?'" he asked, looking around for an escape route.
She snarled, fangs exposed, "How ignorant are you? Any proper consort would be gelded, and no threat to her, but you are clearly not. The gall of it sickens me, how you walk around so smugly."
Silver decided to play a dangerous card, "She has invited me to the warlocks. I'm a dangerous wizard that has to learn how to control their power. Besides, she is my consort, not the other way around."
She raised a brow high, "Is that so? I heard you did burn down part of a library. Well, go on, show me."
Silver shivered, "What do you mean, show you?"
The night guard shrugged her shoulders, "Show me. Make me get out of the way. Do whatever it takes. You have my consent, even blast me if you like."
Silver wasn't sure where this was going, but this time he would make a nice small showing that wouldn't injure half-a-dozen ponies. His horn sang the song of magic, and pain exploded through him. The heat barely had time to gather as he fell over backwards under the guard. She had her fangs in his neck, and she held him close. If it wasn't so painful, he'd almost think she was being affectionate. He wriggled under her, gasping for breath, but she clenched her jaw, driving those deadly teeth deeper, "Please..." Any magic he held was released in the shock, spell fizzling harmlessly.
The guard held him stock still with her teeth until he broke and began crying. Only then did she release him, "Pathetic." She sat up, licking the blood from her fangs, "You taste interesting, at least. Stay away from Princess Luna. She doesn't need sunny little ponies like you."
She opened the door with a wing and shoved Silver out into the hallway, falling over himself in a pile. The door closed as quickly. Silver sat up slowly, moving a hoof to feel over where he had been bitten. Two angry bumps were present under the fur. Was he really that sunny? After a moment of thought, he nodded. He was pretty sunny, at least on the exposed side. Angry night guard or not, he still had questions for Luna, and continued where he left off.
He soon arrived at her chambers and smiled at the guards stationed there, both male and similar-looking. "I'd like to speak with my consort please."
One huffed softly, "She is preparing to raise the moon."
"I can wait." Silver sat where he stood. Time passed slowly with nothing else to do, and the guards were no help, simply staring at him.
Luna emerged and was surprised to see him, "Silver. What are you doing here? Follow me, my duty calls." He did follow her as she strode out to a balcony nearby. He had never seen her perform the act in person. He had to squint against the intense magic that flowed from her form as she manipulated the heavens itself. The moon rose up into sight as stars began to shine across the sky.
Silver smiled a little, "A wonderful night."
Luna nodded, "Yes... But you don't see it often."
Silver shook his head, "You know me, everything. I've been up far into many nights."
Luna smiled gently, "That changed as you grew older, and did not revert when you became a pony. But we are not here to discuss the night. What brings you?"
Silver gestured out over Canterlot, "Can you find my parents, Rough Draft and Trixie Lulamoon? They appear to have moved out and I have no idea where to."
Luna leaned in towards Silver, "A grown stallion asks me to find his parents? Delightful."
Silver frowned, "Not funny."
Luna shrugged then, "Is it not true? I will ask around and see what can be discerned. I find it difficult to believe they would leave you without informing you. Your father in particular seemed very fond of you."
Silver huffed gently, looking out across the new night sky, "We sort of made each other. I hope he's happy with Trixie, wherever he is, and if... he doesn't want to talk to me anymore, that's fine. I just want to be sure they're both safe."
Luna rested a heavy hoof on Silver's shoulder, "We will look in-- What is that?" Silver began to ask what she was talking about when Luna's hoof moved to his bite marks and brushed the fur out of the way, "What happened to you?"
Silver glanced back into the hallway, "One of your guards does not approve of our... relationship. I think she was demonstrating she could take me out before I could blast her if need be."
Luna frowned, "You are still a diplomat." She brushed the fur, hiding the wound, "You are also a friend. You should not be assaulted in our castle. Why do you draw such violence to yourself?"
Silver shrank beneath her gaze, "I'm not doing it on purpose! They knew you were going to, uh, let me be with you while you were in heat."
Luna snorted, "We are civilized people. We do not go into 'heat' like beasts. That aside, yes, I had intended to call for you, as is my right to choose." She pointed at Silver, "You were bitten in a very specific way."
Silver looked back, but had no hope of seeing his own neck, "Back off or next time I'll aim a little to the left?"
Luna snorted, "No. There are few lunar pegasi that know the old challenges. I am fairly certain I know who did it. You will meet her soon enough."
Silver shuddered softly, "Is that... good?"
Luna shrugged, "If you want to become battle-ready, yes."
Silver held up his hooves, waving them, "I really don't!"
Luna let her head tilt a little, "Then you will not enjoy it, but you have agreed to train with the warlocks. She is an excellent one."
Silver frowned, "But she wasn't even a unicorn."
Luna spread her wings, "And you think only unicorns can use magic? It may not have the spells of unicorn magic, but magic she has, and she's very good at it. I wager you did not even see her move before she had you in her submission grip."
"It was crazy," agreed Silver, frowning at the memory.
"If she wanted," spoke Luna, walking back towards her room, "She could have killed you without a whisper escaping you. She is an earnest defender of the realm."
Silver trailed after Luna, "Alright, that's fine, but I've never seen ponies like this before. Where was she during Tirek, Discord, or even your return?"
Luna frowned, "An excellent question. Had I my way, I would let her work to protect the realm, but Celestia insists the warlocks are an emergency force, and gives responsibility to her student, and their friends."
She extended a wing, pointing out, "It's worked so far. The warlocks are dispatched, once in a while, to matters too... unseemly. Celestia protects her dear little filly and will not send her to deal with outright murders and equally vile crimes."
Silver blinked, "Tirek wasn't a joke. The changelings were also pretty serious."
Luna shrugged, "The changelings also came by surprise. Celestia herself even attempted to do battle, though your viewing of it was far shorter than the battle I recall. She lit the sky like a second sun in her fury, but there were too many changelings for her to handle alone. That... episode, as you call it was very inaccurate. It did not even show anything that I had done, as if I had simply slept through the affair."
Silver shook his head slowly as they reached Luna's quarters, "Did love really blast them all away at least?"
Luna flashed her teeth, fanged for the moment like any lunar pegasus, "It overwhelmed them. Many of them died, others were sent fleeing away from the city, their queen included. They were force fed until they could handle it no more."
Silver entered Luna's room behind her, "But what about Nicky? She has a lot of love focused on her all the time and she doesn't explode."
Luna raised a brow, "An excellent question. She is whole of body and pure of thought. My theory is that it is the theft of love that can turn it so ugly."
Silver suddenly smiled, "That reminds me! In school they, uh, Lyra, said that changelings could become ponies, if they were whole. Should we tell Nicky and her friends?"
Luna snorted softly, "So eager to remove what makes us uncomfortable? There are those that would see the lunar pegasi converted to much less-offensive solar ones, had they the choice. Nicky is comfortable and does no harm, why strip that from her?"
Silver flinched back, "I didn't mean it like that... I like Nicky. She's a nice mare, and if I could help, I wanted to. I like her, as a changeling or a pony."
Luna clopped a hoof on the ground, "Did I not decree it so? She is a pony. A pony that is just and right. Would that half the ponies in this city were half as good a pony as she."
Silver watched Luna settle on the cushions and moved up to apologize for bothering her in his own way.
As he moved to be with her, he asked, "Why even chance it? I'm still a foal, as far as movement is concerned. I want to learn more magic, and control, but I don't want to be attacked."
Luna huffed softly, "Must we discuss this now?"
Silver stopped, sitting on his haunches, "Yes. This is pretty important to me."
Luna sat up with a grunt of annoyance, "She is testing you. If you run from her, she will call you weak, and seek to have you banished from the warlocks. If you arrive on the first day despite her threats, she will respect you. As a friend, she has much to show you."
"As a friend," said Silver, "she will thrash me. She's a trained assassin! I'm a writer turned unicorn. I don't want to feel anypony's teeth but Night's."
"Not even mine?" asked Luna with a display of her pearly whites.
Silver shivered softly, "I could make exception for you, but that's beside the point. Besides, it will look awful."
Luna raised a brow, "How does thou mean?"
Silver gestured at his neck, "Anybody can see this. Some people are going to be watching if I seem to be being punished or treated poorly. A singe mark I can play off as my own fault with magic, but obvious physical injuries? Spells don't bite you in the neck."
Luna frowned delicately in thought, "We had not considered this fully. You are correct, the situation is delicate."
Silver waved a hoof, "On top of that, pretending it wasn't delicate, isn't my being uncomfortable enough, for once?"
Luna heard the pain being spoken and sagged a little, "I am doing it again." She patted a cushion with a hoof, "Come here."
Silver came to sit beside her and she began stroking across his mane and back with her hooves. "I am sorry. I will tell her to leave you alone, and the others that you are present for magic training, and that alone, until and unless you are ready for more."
Silver began to smile, leaning against the petting, "I'm sorry for whining about it, but thank you."
Luna snorted gently, "You should perhaps 'whine' more loudly. Enough, do you wish to retire, or...?"
Silver perked his ears, feeling better with the situation resolved. "When are we... you know?"
Luna smiled gently, "The chance is small now, but grows with each day. Come, let us roll the dice you are so fond of."
Silver did just that.
that
forgot, probably.
Don't let me stop you. Or maybe not, not my first language anyway.
"It"? -have +be -she has +it is
5765307 So fast! Fixed!
5765320 I'm reading and commenting at the same time.
5765320 Done. Interesting. Plot twist. Exposition. Asshole self-righteous ponies!
See more in the next episode, same horse-time, on the same horse-channel!
5765347 Everything making sense so far? I do try to avoid plot-holes, besides the ones that should be there.
5765353 Well, yeah, just not much of a fan of "Silver getting screwed by everyone and is generally a rug worse than Fluttershy." Or maybe I'm a bit miffed by previously read story. Probably both.
5765364 I don't think Twilight Sparkle would have fared much better, though images of it would do far better on the Internet.
5765377 I mean "oh I'm OK I have magic now" nope can't defend yourself with it.
"Oh I can do some spells now" nope still buttkicked.
"Oh I made awesome spell and now graduated from magical uni" nope screwed over DOUBLE.
"Oh well I guess I'll just talk to mare I love" nope, cock-blocked by a jelly guard.
Also I tend to edit my previous comments, especially the ones with fixes.
5765388 Life isn't easy when you aren't aiming to slap a filly around. Warlock training may do some good to the timid Silver.
5765396 Yeah no I doubt it. I somehow imagine drill sergeants and yellow puddle of urine.
It will probably be hell for Silver.
I think he just needs to get a lab, a nice everything-proof test area and someone who will sort his messy notes/keep him from killing everything with newly discovered majicks. Done. His perfect place in the world.
On the other note, it's 2am. Good night.
5765420 Silver would not object to any part of your idea.
5765424 Oh my god. Never ever let Silver go full scientist with Twilight.
Bam! Armageddon/summon of Elder gods/suddenly /b/
The door "slammed" shut behind him.
The guards are both male and "similar-looking."
If he wants to become "battle-ready."
5765459 Fixed! You really don't like doors slapping. Not many fixes. I hope this bodes well?
5765464 Well, someone else did start with the editing before I had a chance to. But I am noticing less and less for me to do over time.
5765530 Pfft! You are a huge boon, both for editing and for insight. Don't let anypony say otherwise.
5765542 Aw, thanks! It's always nice to be appreciated!
With regards to this chapter, I found myself apprehensive about several of the directions and new bits of information being given here. While the recent issue with Silver's diplomatic status has made me reluctant to pass judgment on elements of the story that don't sit well with me, there are several things here that I'm leery with regards to.
The biggest one is the revelation that conception only happens if both parties want it to happen. This rubs me the wrong way for three reasons:
1) As a general rule, it takes away for the potential for unexpected developments. Equestria is a land where a lot of "acts of God" are completely under the control of the populace, the weather being the biggest example. You're not going to be able to have a disaster story with a tornado or a drought, because the mechanisms behind those are manipulated by the pegasi; hence, that's a kind of story that you can't tell so easily (unless you can find another sort of disaster, e.g. a seismic event). Likewise, you've just closed off "unexpected pregnancy" from ever being an issue in this story. To be fair, that didn't look like it was going to be an issue anyway, but now that door has been permanently closed from any future use.
2) The idea of having a "kill switch" for fertility flies in the face of verisimilitude, at least for me. The ubiquity of reproduction is central to the propagation of life itself; having the ability to consciously shut off their own fertility, even when the other partner wants to reproduce, flies in the face of that. The entire idea behind the "selfish gene" theory is that the desire to reproduce is so strong that an organism's genes actually "act" against the organism's own best interests in favor of reproducing. For the ponies to not be able to reproduce unless both parties want to do so strikes me as so counter-intuitive, from a natural standpoint, that I find it hard to swallow. I know that "it's magic" is the typical answer here, but that level of magic is inherent to their biology, and I can't see how it ever would have come about in the first place, since it's a boon for the individual but a detriment to the entire race.
3) Finally, this idea doesn't seem to make any sense with what you've told us about mares having a certain period of fertility (e.g. a "heat" period, or whatever Luna calls it, since that's apparently not the right term). If ponies can get pregnant whenever both parties want to, then why did Night Watch have to wait three days before Silver could impregnate her? Why do mares have a period when they suddenly become pheromone factories? Isn't that nature's way of announcing that they're now fertile and able to breed? If so, doesn't that directly contradict the entire idea of having natural contraceptive abilities? This idea really should have been limited to stallions, based on what you've already told us about mares.
I'm also somewhat leery of that new lunar pegasus you've introduced. My problem isn't her attitude or attributes as a character, per se, but rather the entirety of what she brings to the story. For one thing, Luna seems to indicate that her actions could be considered an attack on Silver's person, despite his diplomatic immunity...except then it's implied that this issue is going to be danced around because that pegasus is part of the warlocks, and so her actions are considered to be "rough training" rather than any sort of assault. Fair enough, except that 1) we've already had that particular trope used with Professor Thetics before, and 2) wasn't Luna going to teach Silver directly? Why is Luna apparently shrugging this off as "she's going to be teaching you battle"?
Even leaving aside that Luna doesn't seem to be concerned that Silver's apparently going to be in harm's way again, why would she consent to letting someone else teach him, when she flat-out told Celestia that it wouldn't be the warlocks who would be teaching Silver war magic, but Luna herself? Celestia was even noted as being unhappy with that decision, but not arguing against it. Given that Luna is presumably feeling very protective of Silver at this point (with what happened at the school) and is having an easier time admitting that she loves him and wants to be around him (with Night and Silver giving her their blessing to have an intimate emotional relationship with Silver), how can she just shrug this off as "welcome to the hard knocks of warlock school"? At the very least, she shouldn't want to hand him over to anypony else before she's instructed him to her satisfaction, let alone to a guard who's issuing a rough challenge when she first sees Silver...and whom Silver has flat-out said doesn't like him! Is Luna really content to let this be the situation with Prof. Thetics all over again?
I'm also somewhat leery of the entire idea of that lunar pegasus being much of a warlock in general, let alone a teacher for Silver. True, Luna did say that she wasn't a spellcaster per se, but rather was using her (presumably inherent) magic. Fair enough there; it's plausible that she may have some sort of natural magic that she's put towards combative uses (we didn't see her cutie mark, after all). But even if we overlook the idea that the warlocks are supposed to be students of war magic specifically - rather than just combat-trained ponies in general - then why would Luna think that that pegasus would be a good teacher for Silver? Silver isn't a lunar pegasus, and so wouldn't have access to the same kind of magic as that mare; nor would she be able to teach Silver anything about studying and formulating war spells, which is his specialty. There's very little impetus for her being his instructor in any practical regard that I can see.
The only thing that comes to mind is that she'll be (as one poster guessed) some sort of "badass drill instructor"-type of pony, putting him through his paces with gross physical training and hoof-to-hoof combat lessons of the "you think spellcasting is all there is to combat? First you need to know how to fight!" school of thought. That's not really a good idea, however, because we know that Silver is physically underdeveloped enough that he needs what's essentially physical therapy already (e.g. Meadow Leaper), and anything more than that seems like it'd be harmful more than it'd be helpful, and also it doesn't fit Silver's learning style. The entire issue with his not bothering to memorize magical symbols was that he has his own way of learning and doing things; going about it "the traditional way" holds him back, rather than giving him a base to work from. Let him develop a body of spells to cast, rather than trying to make him some sort of pony "magic knight."
I'm also concerned that Luna is taking the issue with Silver's diplomatic immunity too lightly, even if the issue of "it's training, rather than abuse by a government official" could serve as a smokescreen there. The fact is, Silver now has a spotlight on him with regards to Celestia's misdeed. That means that every country is now going to be paying extremely close attention to him, since he's inadvertently exposed a chink in Celestia's metaphorical "armor" of perfection (in terms of her actions and attitudes). Luna, certainly, would recognize this, and as such would know that Equestria can't afford to have Silver even look like he's in a position where he's suffering any sort of abuse, or even discourtesy, at the hands of members of Equestria's government, warlocks included. Otherwise it feeds the original suspicion that Celestia was ignoring his immunity, and that his statement was meant to be cover to try and deflect that (which, in fact, it was). Luna should realize, in other words, that Silver needs to avoid even the appearance that anything less than absolute courtesy is being shown to him by her government at every level.
Even then, foreign governments are going to take an active interest in Silver. With him having exposed a flaw in Celestia herself, they won't be able to afford not to, since unfriendly governments will want to take advantage of that, and even friendly governments will want to investigate to make sure that Equestria can be counted on to stay friendly. Silver's speech undid a lot of damage (and showed that his tongue is also silver *rimshot*), but there's no way it lifted the international intrigue. I'd be willing to wager that he's suddenly going to have a lot of new "friends" (both from other pony countries, such as Saddle Arabia and Mare-itania (or however it's spelled), as well as from the countries of other races) that will want to get to know him better; subterfuge is something he's not going to be able to avoid from now on (since almost none of them would want to be overtly hostile, unless they think that they can do something heavy-hoofed like kidnap him use his relationship with Luna to ransom him back to Equestria, but that'd be ridiculously high-stakes; I'd suspect that most would want to covertly pump him for information - such as, say, if his speech was really true).
So overall, I'm pretty leery of most of what's going on here. But maybe I'm overthinking it.
5766053 Oh... oh my...
Those are a lot of not entirely happy words and very good points, and made me realize one myself... If they just had to not want a kid, he could have been with Luna any time, receptive or not, which was clearly not the case. I have created a plot hole! Everyone get to the life rafts!
5766053 You make a crazy amount of sense...thought, the pregnancy with consent has been done before in other stories...mainly to make sure they don't do shit like Rape with consequences that follow.I'm not sure how to explain this but human really need that sort of shiz. and yeah, there are quite a lot of inconsistency....
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5765437 Chapter heavily revised with some new bits and old bits hacked out.
Some editing I noticed while rereading the chapter.
There needs to be a closing quotation mark at the end of that last sentence.
That should probably be "relationship" at the end.
This is the first time that "Warlocks" has been capitalized, which you'd only do if that was the specific name of a particular group, rather than a general descriptor for a particular type of pony profession.
5767804 Two edits for one chapter?! Impossible! Fixed and thank you. I hope you liked the edits I did.
5767810 I did. I think that these solved the issues that I had with this chapter (though "gelding" is chopping a stallion's balls off, which would make it hard for them to be Luna's plaything in the first place). It's far easier to believe that this was an overzealous guardian (and near-worshipper) of Luna's acting out, and that Luna was simply not thinking things through, rather than something bad that Silver's just going to have to get used to.
This sentence don't quite make sense.
5773199 They've said the words to each other before, because Luna knows everything. He is a bare book before her. It is kind of scary, and yet somehow comforting, knowing she's still there despite his flaws and her full knowing of them.
5773202 Perhaps he could say, "You know me, everything about me."
I think I would have preferred your depiction of A Canterlot Wedding.
6232696 If they want to do an adult MLP, I'm available to mess it up for everyone!
Silver tried to scramble away from her, but her wings spread, keeping him penned in. "What do you mean, 'hold back?' he asked, looking around for an escape route.
Correction:Silver tried to scramble away from her, but her wings spread, keeping him penned in. "What do you mean, 'hold back?'" he asked, looking around for an escape route.
One huffed softly, "She is preparing the raise the moon."
Correction:One huffed softly, "She is preparing to raise the moon."
6316433 Fixed!
GAAAAH, after all this time he's still too damn apologetic and docile, there is little to no aggression in him, dare I say it, almost no human left in his mind to activate the drive to survive when pressed with danger. He fiddles and makes magic as a talent but he's demonstrated hardly anything to show for it besides- a fireball that's unsuited for any situation within his current environment (only idiots would ever dare start an AoE move in closed quarters, among innocents), and a spell to give chicks dicks, shameful.
For the sake of settling my frustration, I really need to see some improvement beyond this point, you've already laid what fate he holds on digital stone, I pray it he doesn't end up physically gelded, as was his demeanor.
6731712 He is a dirty self-insert, for all the good and bad of it.
6731788 Even then, telling me this is a self insert no longer feels as a tangible excuse, no person, even a self-loathing potato would allow themselves to be continually ground against the world's ass and be force fed its bullshit. I can hardly believe that the you at the inception of this series, was such a doormat, that you'd allow a simulated version of that time's self to be put through such emotional and physical traumas.
6733747 That would require personal details I don't feel comfortable exchanging at this time.
I'm beginning to feel the need for a timeline. How old was his new body, how long is this after his transformation, some other events?
Also, this chapter is confusing in that we are told "3 days". There was little mention of them doing anything at that time or even that it WAS that time, then all of a sudden "I'm PREGNANT!" Ok? So a month or 2 passed to confirm it took? Ponies automatically know, or they just assume "Sex while fertile=100% chance of pregnancy."
7078996 This series make no additional effort to show time passing as its host show. Cadance just told us a few months ago she was pregnant, BAM, Foal. How long was it? I dunno...
I cannot help but to ask, why are so many people here so self-righteous, self-absorbed, or just plain bullies? Is being a complete dick-head to everyone really that rewarding? Nearly every character outside the main protagonists would be classified as Neutral Evil and many would be Chaotic Evil.
Because apparently the author believes it makes the story more interesting...which at this point not really, it is just annoying
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Things are darkest before the sunrise.