Oops, It's a Sith Lord (open!)

[ruleoftwo]

[Today, inside the Old City's catacombs, there's... something else. It isn't a Pokemon. It's a person. That, given the very existence of the Delvers, isn't such a surprise. However, it isn't a Delver, either.]

[Darth Sidious wears what a member of a secretive cult should wear: a cloak, hood pulled up to cover his face, save for the yellow glow of his eyes. It's more than Enlightened power that obscures his identity as Sheev Palpatine.]

[He carries himself differently. This isn't a grandfatherly man walking about; he stalks, wearing that thick cloak, and while he's slightly hunched... there's something subtly spry about how he carries himself. And the crackle of purple light surrounding him -- well, that's nothing like Palpatine.]

[Sidious stares at something on the wall, trying to make sense of it. A Golurk hovers nearby, huge arms crossed.]

Comments

[incousinswithyou]

Is this the part where you bring up how I do the bidding of my Pokemon?

[said Pokemon are still playing Intrepid Explorers and don't really seem to care about this boring human conversation]

[ruleoftwo]

No. The Enlightened of this city are bound by something far more controlling.

[He frowns.]

We are taught to serve. We are greater than humans and Pokemon both. Something that the Savior's story would have us deny.

[incousinswithyou]

Rulers and conquerors don't have quite the same tone, no.

[she will admit that this is the first time she's heard of anybody thinking this way]

[ruleoftwo]

They do not.

And that we think those terms are unacceptable speaks volumes of our society.

[incousinswithyou]

Even if you were to find definitive evidence to the contrary, the idea itself - and the value we ascribe to it - won't be so easily uprooted.

[not with all these gods prancing around and showing up every few months, at any rate.]

[ruleoftwo]

The idea has to be shown as false. The idea that we should not rule...

[He frowns.] Power doesn't ask that the weak change. Power demands it.

[incousinswithyou]

You say that, but the Enlightened still have to answer to the gods.

[if we're going to base such judgments on how much power one has]

[ruleoftwo]

For now.

But could we change that? I think so.

[incousinswithyou]

It was difficult enough to take down one god.

[at Glacier]

[ruleoftwo]

Then we must grow stronger.

And once we've made one god our servant, the rest will soon follow.