Father Paul Hill (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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aionchat2022-06-17 03:02 pm
vivificantem) wrote in aionchat2022-06-17 03:02 pm
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KENOMA | VOICE
[There's something different tonight in Paul's baseline, something strange and energized in a way that he usually is not; perhaps it's evident, in the way his emotions are coming across, that it isn't necessarily a good sort of energized - they're strange and scattershot, almost crackling with a sort of manic feel behind them, though his words are steady enough as he goes.]
As I've made known to several of you, I've never been a combatant; I don't fight, and I've never had reason to become proficient with a weapon. And yet I don't disagree with those of you that have made it clear that we need to play to our strengths, if this is going to be a war we're going to win.
My own strengths have always lay with people - providing guidance, providing leadership. Knowing what they need to hear in order to press on, and knowing what they need to see to carry through whatever needs to be carried through. Finding those willing to serve, and willing to spare nothing in their service.
I've found that there are those here that are more than willing to accept my guidance - in the service of the Regent, and the service of the Kenoma. After all, who better than an Aion to give them what they're after? Those I refer to are more than willing to give up their lives in the interest of that service; it's just a matter of directing them to use that willingness in a more productive way.
I've taken up a position in the sect of Our Dark Regent's Church of the Precious Blood. Decently respected in Achamoth, despite their harsher proclivities. They seem a prudent investment to make - if we're to be at war, we'll need resources of one sort or another, and people are an acceptable resource to have.
After all, that's how the gospel spreads.
As I've made known to several of you, I've never been a combatant; I don't fight, and I've never had reason to become proficient with a weapon. And yet I don't disagree with those of you that have made it clear that we need to play to our strengths, if this is going to be a war we're going to win.
My own strengths have always lay with people - providing guidance, providing leadership. Knowing what they need to hear in order to press on, and knowing what they need to see to carry through whatever needs to be carried through. Finding those willing to serve, and willing to spare nothing in their service.
I've found that there are those here that are more than willing to accept my guidance - in the service of the Regent, and the service of the Kenoma. After all, who better than an Aion to give them what they're after? Those I refer to are more than willing to give up their lives in the interest of that service; it's just a matter of directing them to use that willingness in a more productive way.
I've taken up a position in the sect of Our Dark Regent's Church of the Precious Blood. Decently respected in Achamoth, despite their harsher proclivities. They seem a prudent investment to make - if we're to be at war, we'll need resources of one sort or another, and people are an acceptable resource to have.
After all, that's how the gospel spreads.
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In your old church, you were asked to help bring about the end of days?
[He doesn’t know what to think about that. It certainly would explain some things, though.]
It’s because you previously gave me the impression that the Achamite faiths are very different from yours—even contradictory, in some ways. If that’s true, I don’t understand how you can believe that their scripture reflects your Lord’s will.
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[He trails off a bit at that; it's always a weird, awkward time explaining this. He spent so damn long not talking about it, lying about it to his congregation's face even though he supposes he didn't need to keep it quiet like that - he doesn't remember why he spent so long doing as he did, and that's alarming, but that's a breakdown he can have later, not over communion. Even if small portions of the stress seeps through, not at all helping with the general sense of unease to the transmission.]
I was blessed by an Angel of the Lord - they came to me when I was on my deathbed, and they saved my life, and I was granted multiple blessings upon my restoration. Part of this was an understanding of God's will, and with it came the knowledge that I was bearing witness to one of the signs of the end times. And in exchange for the blessings laid unto me, my life was to be used to bring about the events described of our end of days.
I was not asked by my church. I was asked by my God.
[...That sure is a description of what happened.]
The means of expression of faith are different here. But if the goal - this end of times, the end of worlds - is ultimately the same, then who am I to argue with the means?
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I didn’t know this was something your faith and the Regent’s shared.
[He can see more clearly now how Paul might be able to accept his new purpose so readily, despite the end of everything he left behind, but this new knowledge only makes Liem feel more adrift.]
Did those blessings accompany you here?
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Most of them are with me, though.
[So there's that, at least.]
Like I said, though, this isn't necessarily about my personal religion. It's about usefulness to the Regent - I can't offer a lot, all things considered, but I can offer this much.
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[He lets that particular tidbit slip by without further examination. Who would be eager to test something like that out?
Even beyond that detail, however, he seems less eager to probe further. His communion is closed-off and formal as he adds,] I hope you find success.
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[Closed-off and formal though it may be, it's still a sentiment that didn't explicitly need to be expressed. And yet there it is, so it's not like it's something he'll choose to ignore.]