@Jack: ...I will rather not comment on said choice of words there. Given you (probably) know my stance on those matters, you can probably guess what my opinion on accusations like that being liberally thrown around is. I will say, though, that I got to witness Legion first reaction to Hymu's first post, and he was rather taken aback, to say the least. And that may be an understatement. ASTA had just considered flipping a few tables (according to chat backlog), but luckily opted not to. 

And again, I would be dishonest if I didn't say I do not enjoy writing Aemoten as he currently was/is, either. He's mostly been feeling hopeless, useless, futile, anguished, and then droning over the said hopelessness, uselessness, futility and mental pain. A part of me literally wanted to groan back in the day when Thaler first woke up and the relic was revealed. But I have been putting up with it in the name of things eventually getting on a more enjoyable track, the same as I tolerated the Unmentionable One's and his constant bickering before that... After doing so for the entirety of the Rilon-bloody-mess and along the way getting an entity involved who has no business being in the foreground atop of my own character's miserable state, Thaler hypothetically simply being crossed out of the equation just feels a bit like a slap in the face. But yeah... Of course I can't actually stop Thaler, or Hymusia, for the matter, if they truly intend to opt for that path. But as said, things can change still. Rilon regrettably already happened, and that can be changed no more. 

Oeh... And the guardsman both knows what the blindfold means and is enough of a bastard to go hand the people who essentially saved his life in? I would hope not. There [i]must[/i] be some people left in Reniam who aren't secretly heartless demons, no?