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AttilaSquare

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(22) Zaros has historically acted directly against the principles of the Godless, by his pursuit of ever greater control and by his lack of transparency. Furthermore, his pursuit of elder godhood runs contrary to his participation as an equal partner in the dignified common life of sapient beings. Yet, he largely abandoned his ambitions to rule by force and now seeks to protect sentient and sapient life from the elder goddesses. Therefore, he could become an ally of the Council in its efforts to defend Gielinor from the elder goddesses but is unlikely to be welcomed by us as a god in Gielinor.

(23) The nature of the elder goddesses remains mysterious to us, so that we cannot say whether they are sapient beings or somehow super-sapiential. Their life cycle makes them enemies to us for now.

(24) We know little of the Queen of Ashes. If she will become a redeemed Elidnis, she can take her place within the Menaphite Pantheon. Otherwise she is likely an enemy to Gielinor.

(25) Finally, we know little of Xau-Tak, but all evidence indicates that he is an enemy to all Gielinor.

V. Further Tasks of the Council I: More Threats

(26) The Council seeks to promote peace and cooperation among the mortals of Gielinor, to clarify relations with others races and beings of exceptional power, and to defend and promote the dignified common life of Gielinorians.

(27) The preceding sections have already addressed the approach of the Council to various races and gods. These include most of the known entities that threaten the common life of Gielinorians, except perhaps the little known Obsidian Tribunal.

17-Feb-2019 18:43:59

AttilaSquare

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(28) However, in addition to countering these threats, the Council has the important task of dealing with other beings, artifacts, and places of great power. The first class includes the Guardians of Guthix, the beings of anima Vorago and Telos, the Chaos Elemental, and the Spirit Beast. The second class includes the elder artifacts and the godsword. The third class includes the Heart, Daemonheim, and the Rift.

(29) Already, the Guardians of Guthix protect several locations of great power and Telos defends the Heart. The role of the Council, then, is to maintain contact with these guardians and to support them however possible. The Council could, for example, legislate concerning the proper use of physically manifest anima such as in the Heart, especially in cases of great quantity.

(30) The Council might also investigate Daemonheim and the Rift beneath it, perhaps even seeking collaboration with the dragonkin. It will need to be determined whether the Rift should be employed in the service of Gielinorians, whether the tunnels and portals ought to be reinforced, abandoned, or destroyed, and whether Daemonheim might be returned to the dragonkin as a territory of their own.

(31) Concerning dangerous artifacts, these are best protected by those who already possess them, unless their bearers would use them against the dignified common life of Gielinorians. Otherwise, such artifacts are best given to those who cannot use them to attain or to increase in divine power, like the guardians of Armadyl who protected the Siphon for centuries or the World Guardian who wields the Measure.

17-Feb-2019 18:44:49

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VI. Further Tasks of the Council II: Defending Principles

(32) To sustain peace and cooperation and the vision of dignified common life among Gielinorians developed here requires an absolutist ethic. That is, it requires the recognition that certain acts by their nature contradict these goods and are therefore absolutely forbidden, except in the rare circumstances in which one is forced to choose among them and chooses the least evil.

(33) The Council shall erect a Court and appoint judges to hear cases of such crimes that demand global attention. These may include, for example, cases of genocide, massacre, torture, and enslavement. Several gods must answer for these. The Court must decide whether those found guilty ought to be invited to remain in Gielinor following apology and reparation or to be banished from Gielinor.

(34) These crimes also include experimentation on sapient beings, such as by Kerapac or Ocellus. Because such experimentation is absolutely forbidden, it is not justified by otherwise noble purposes.

17-Feb-2019 18:47:42

AttilaSquare

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(35) Finally, these crimes include certain crimes against religion. Although the Godless oppose governance primarily by authority, which is inseparable from much religious practice, at the global level and wherever governance primarily by persuasion already exists, it must be recognized that governance primarily by authority is natural to many sapient beings. Governance primarily by authority follows from the judgment by a people that their leaders are trustworthy, and such bonds of trust necessarily belong to the dignified common life of Gielinorians. Therefore, among sapient beings, no individual, household, or people may be forced to disobey what they judge to be trustworthy unless their obedience directly contradicts our dignified common life.

VII. Further Tasks of the Council III: Diplomacy, Environmental and Territorial Recovery, Other Laws

(36) To fulfill its ends, the Council shall maintain diplomatic relations within Gielinor: with its various represented constituencies, as well as with the churches, factions, and other organizations throughout the world; and, to some extent, outside Gielinor: making contact with worlds such as Teregard, Tarrdiad, Abbinah, Hallow, Iaia, Mazcab, and Renmark, as well as with the gorajo, the Kal’gerions, and the Obsidian Tribunal.

(37) For the same ends, the Council might also undertake several projects of environmental or territorial recovery: researching and strengthening Gielinor’s dimensional barriers weakened by excessive teleportation, perhaps seeking collaboration with the ZMI; healing the land of Forinthry, and perhaps banishing or destroying the Chaos Elemental and Spirit Beast; stopping and reversing the expansion of the Kharidian Desert; and restoring the lands of Hallowglade, Humblethorn, and the Poison Wastes.

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AttilaSquare

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(38) A similar project would be the resettlement of the living residents of the Temple of Lost Ancients, since the godsword now likely lies in the possession of the World Guardian. The undead and those who desired to remain could do so, in accord with the Law of Dungeons. The Council could ensure the peaceful resettlement of others in appropriate lands.

(39) In general, the Council might attend to all such anomalous populations. This would include overseeing care for beings of visiting or endangered species, by investing in appropriate research into cures for the infertility of the ilujanka and dragonkin, for example, or by seeking freedom or even new lands for the skavids.

(40) Finally, the Council may legislate on technical matters of global interest, such as banking, trade, and teleportation.

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VIII. The Godless

(41) All the foregoing may be accepted by members of any faction, and perhaps not all of the Godless will accept it. So the question arises: What remains that distinguishes the Godless as a faction?

(42) The Godless carry forward the tradition of Guthix, or a specific interpretation of it. Therefore, they have a spirituality of their own. (Some headcannon follows.) Its core is inherited from the mystical tradition of the late Godwars, according to which the gods simply could not satisfy the hearts of sapient beings. Instead their hearts seek a peace that lies beyond all knowledge and power, beyond all beings and worlds. This is what the mystics sought.

(43) Every authority moves the heart, because authority comes from a judgment of trustworthiness. But the Godless honor above all authorities the heart itself, for it is moved by something beyond all authorities. For them, the greatest piety is to remain open to what lies beyond and to every insight into it that gods and mortals may enjoy.

(44) For this reason, the Godless seek governance primarily by persuasion - i.e. by what moves the heart most freely and clearly - instead of governance primarily by any particular authority. Thus they remain open to the mysterious beyond.

(45) This spirituality has one final consequence of interest - a doctrine preserved since the mystics of the 3rd age by the druids: the condemnation of necromancy, or at least the condemnation of certain of its forms. Because the heart of sapient beings seeks what lies beyond all knowledge, all power, and therefore all magics, it does not admit of complete resurrection by any power of beings or in worlds. Therefore, the Godless, like the druids and the mystics of ages past, reject any necromancy that would purport fully to restore to life sapient beings and their special dignity.

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Lord Drakan
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Dennorak said :
Isn't the Godsword we have players have a weaker variation, rather than the proper one?
Yeah, otherwise we'd be murdering gods around the place.

By the way, the RuneScape Council is the canonical name for Jagex, :3. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. OSRS: POH ideas & RS3 minigames & achievement ideas !

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18-Feb-2019 08:09:48

AttilaSquare

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I didn’t know that about the godsword - where can I find that? Is there a lore explanation for the existence of a lesser version?

I know “RuneScape Council” has referred to Jagex, but I took it in this direction for two reasons: first, “Jas” once meant “Java Application Server,” so there’s a precedent for fourth-wall-breaking things to receive new in-world interpretations; and second, I identified the “RuneScape Council” with the “Secret Council of RuneScape/Lumbridge Secret Council.” It’s not a very impressive institution in Recipe for Disaster, but that does not mean that it did not formerly accomplish things like determining and restricting appropriate teleportation locations, etc.

Thankfully, my last twelve posts don’t stand or fall on these points.

I’m glad to see that you two are around (and A Mighty too) even though the forum has been so slow of late!

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