"Marilyn, Lao Antha, Sylvanus, Jody, Cable, Andur...
Do you know what the members of the adventure team you killed mean to Tethyr?
Or do you know what they have done in the past and what extraordinary significance it has to this country?"
After being silent for a long time, Elminster asked in an extremely serious tone.
Zuo Si shrugged nonchalantly: "What does this have to do with me?
I just need to know that they are my enemies.
I believe you should know best what I will do when dealing with the enemy.
Especially those who may cause violent social unrest, division and hatred must be nipped in the bud rather than allowed to continue to learn and grow.
If you think it's a pity that they died, you can go back and find a way to resurrect them one by one.
I believe it is not difficult for you to cast a few wishing spells, right?
But remember, don’t let these people appear on my territory.
Otherwise, next time it will be more than just destroying the body."
"So the reason why you showed up in person and took action is that they are too much of a threat?" Elminster continued to test.
He is now eager to figure out Zuo Si's way of thinking and actions to ensure that similar tragedies will not happen again.
As for using the wishing spell to resurrect the dead...
Sorry, this great sage from the Valley of Shadows doesn’t know how to do it.
And I feel that it is destroying the cycle of life and death and the balance of nature.
Otherwise, the eldest sister among the seven sisters in the North, Shiron, would not still remain a ghost.
In fact, although Faerûn has many means of resurrecting people from the dead, many complicated things are often involved when actually using them.
For example, some resurrection spells require the consent of the deceased.
Once the deceased goes to the kingdom of gods and becomes a petitioner, there is a high probability that he will refuse to be resurrected unless he has strong obsession or hatred.
After all, what most mortals pursue is to go to the kingdom of gods after death and live the dream life in the form of immortality.
Now that you have gotten everything you dreamed of, why should you go back to the mortal world to suffer?
In addition, gods like the God of Death, nature gods and gods who tend to be lawful do not agree with resurrecting the dead in terms of doctrine, and will strictly restrict their priests and druids from performing such magic.
Only high-level mages who don't care about the teachings of gods at all, or gods like Wojin, the goddess of wealth, who do things for money, can provide resurrection services on a large scale.
However, the goddess of magic obviously has a neutral attitude toward resurrecting the dead, neither encouraging nor prohibiting it.
Therefore, Elminster may simply believe that resurrecting the dead is a wrong behavior in terms of thoughts and values.
Coupled with his stubborn character and perhaps some kind of moral obsessiveness, he has almost never resurrected anyone with his own hands.
Even if the person is a very close friend and an important member of the Harper Alliance.
Zuo Si looked at the other party with great interest, and after a full minute he replied with a smile: "No, it has nothing to do with the level of threat.
I am actually protecting the civilians of Tethyr from being forced into war and bleeding for the ambition, greed and interests of those nobles.
Did you know?
Starting from the landmark event of the burning of Fort Tassel in DR1347, the land under our feet has been experiencing continuous civil war for more than ten years.
Before the war broke out, there were more than 7 million or even 8 million civilians living in Tethyr's territory. The population was even equal to that of Carlin Shirt in the south, including slaves.
But now?
There are only about four million people left.
Guess where half of the missing population went?
They either died in wars, diseases, hunger, or attacks by monsters and wild beasts, and some were even captured and sold as slaves to the South.
And the culprit behind all this is the nobles!
But now, a group of guys from noble backgrounds actually think that they represent justice, and want to incite more innocent people to join this war, create hatred, and attempt to single-handedly stop the pace of reunification and the coming of peace.
It even euphemistically calls it resistance to foreign invasion!
Shouldn't such a guy die?
I admit that the founder of the Shane Dynasty, the old Akaba Shane, did use many despicable and shameless methods when he obtained the throne of Tethyr, and he also killed many people.
But his greatest achievement was to merge Kalingshan and Tessel into one, providing ordinary people with a stable and peaceful social environment for a long time, and allowing the southern region to make great progress in economy, culture, art, etc.
Development.
Even after hundreds of years of turmoil, it is still one of the most prosperous regions in Faerûn with the highest living standards.
Moreover, the old Akaba Shane also actively expanded to the north, expanding the empire's sphere of influence to the current Amn area.
From a legal point of view, these three countries were all split from the Shane Empire. They have very high similarities in history and culture, and even the civilians are related by blood.
To be honest, I don't quite understand why you have to prevent them from merging.
But I can tell you clearly that anyone who dares to create divisions and conflicts among Amn, Kalimshan and Tethyr will be dealt a merciless blow by me.
Especially when this kind of behavior involves civilians, I will never allow it.
In addition, because of your interference, the entire Tethyr nobility will be uprooted.
I will kill all those families who dare to resist, confiscate their land and property, and turn the rest into captives and sell them to the slave traders in Ser.
Then tell everyone that all this is the result of the intervention of the great Elminster and the Harper Alliance.
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It is you who control the Tethyr Eight Adventure Team to split the country between the nobles. It is also you who want to continue the war and make more people living at the bottom of society suffer.
From now on, there will no longer be any soil for the Harper Alliance to survive in the entire south of the west coast of Faerûn.
Because the people will hate you from the bottom of their hearts and regard you as the biggest enemy of peace and a better life.
When people in a strong and prosperous country encounter a crisis, the first person they think of for help should be the government.
Instead of always imagining that if something goes wrong there will be one or a few heroes who will save them through self-sacrifice at the cost.
This widely circulated concept is itself a huge mistake.
Most of the so-called heroes sung in bard stories just solved some trivial troubles.
In the face of real disasters, such as the fall of the floating city in the era of Netheril, and your personal experience of the destruction of Myth Drannor, they actually have no ability to turn the tide like ordinary people.
Even if these heroes have the support of a certain god behind them."
As these words blurted out, Elminster's face changed instantly, becoming angry and ugly, and it was obvious that he had been stabbed in a sore spot.
Also defeated in psychological defense was Harid III.
Among them, the latter even fell to his knees on the ground with a plop, grabbing his hair as if he was crazy, and muttering some nonsense that others could not understand.
There is no doubt that neither of them has considered the casualties and suffering that civilians may suffer in the war once Tethyr is divided.
One of the defense plans that King Harid III made for Zazesibo was to forcibly recruit young men from nearby areas and then arm them to defend the city.
After all, in the traditional understanding of Faerûn, when there is an invasion from outside, all residents near the city are obliged to participate in the war.
But now, when Zuo Si peeled off the cocoon and revealed the essence of the whole thing, he suddenly realized that what he, Marilyn, and several other members of the team called "recovering the motherland" were actually recovering nothing more than the people who ruled Tethyr.
Aristocratic class.
As for the civilians who have suffered the most casualties and suffering, they will show sympathy and even provide some help when they can.
But when making political considerations, they often subconsciously ignore it.
If the intention of uniting the nobles to form an army to resist succeeds, it will definitely be a complete disaster for the common people.
Anyone with a bit of common sense knows how big the gap is between ordinary civilians and a professional army with a large number of warrior-level veterans.
The latter can easily kill the former in battle, even if both sides are equipped with equally sophisticated weapons and armor.
The most important thing is that since the restoration of Shah En VII, there has never been a record of attacking civilians.
Normally, after the war, he would ask the churches of the God of Justice and the God of Suffering to come forward to appease the civilians and maintain order in the areas they had just captured.
This is why, after the Kalingshan Unification War, the population of the area increased instead of decreasing, and it doubled on a large scale, from the original five to six million to over ten million.
To be continued...