Leliel
2010-10-28, 09:38 PM
Well, one of my characters-pending application to a PbP game on Myth Weavers-is a thaumaturge who, became obsessed with curing a contagion designed to target his Dragon-Blooded masters in the Seventh Legion during a failed purification of a small shadowland.
Seeing as how thaumaturgy sucks when it comes to Exalt-affecting diseases (for good reason), he began to lose his mind in pursuit of a vaccine, gradually crossing more and more ethical standards until all that mattered was a cure-the fact that there were now a depressingly large number of neomah and sessejlae gamboling about in Creation ceased to matter to him. Eventually, he lost his composure completely and sacrificed a dying mortal to summon Aleuva and get her input on things ("If she created the stomach bottle bugs, she has to know more about medicine then they do, right!?"). Surprisingly, it worked, and he was able to create a vaccine with the Keeper of the Forge of Night's help.
Now, he got cold feet in actually administering the cure when he learned of the birth of his daughter (mad scientist's beautiful child, ha-ha) and ended up becoming a Defiler, but I left it deliberately ambiguous whether his general persistence and ability to take risks in finding a cure for a disease made immune to mortal medicine would make him a viable Twilight. So:
Would a person who's "great act of heroism" involved something as amoral as human sacrifice be a viable candidate for Lunar or Solar Exaltation (the Incarnas' opinions of this practice be damned)?
Seeing as how thaumaturgy sucks when it comes to Exalt-affecting diseases (for good reason), he began to lose his mind in pursuit of a vaccine, gradually crossing more and more ethical standards until all that mattered was a cure-the fact that there were now a depressingly large number of neomah and sessejlae gamboling about in Creation ceased to matter to him. Eventually, he lost his composure completely and sacrificed a dying mortal to summon Aleuva and get her input on things ("If she created the stomach bottle bugs, she has to know more about medicine then they do, right!?"). Surprisingly, it worked, and he was able to create a vaccine with the Keeper of the Forge of Night's help.
Now, he got cold feet in actually administering the cure when he learned of the birth of his daughter (mad scientist's beautiful child, ha-ha) and ended up becoming a Defiler, but I left it deliberately ambiguous whether his general persistence and ability to take risks in finding a cure for a disease made immune to mortal medicine would make him a viable Twilight. So:
Would a person who's "great act of heroism" involved something as amoral as human sacrifice be a viable candidate for Lunar or Solar Exaltation (the Incarnas' opinions of this practice be damned)?