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Commento di TimmyET

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<You open to a random page in the heavy tome. The words are densley packed and detail the many various war crimes perpetrated by the Maldraxxi Margrave Gharmal. The author has managed to make details of the horrifying events as dry and dull as the paper it's written on.>

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<Skipping further ahead, this passage covers the aranakk and the House of Eyes. The author speculates that at some long forgotten point the aranakk were created purely to be elite spies for Maldraxxus>

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<This section gives a withering attack on the Maldraxxi war tactics, calling their scorched earth methods worse than the invasion of outside forces.>
If the enemy doesn't destory everything, Maldraxxus will in their pursuit of the enemy.

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<The author has gone into great detail explaining why she feels that raising enemy corpses as skeletal soldiers should be a war crime. The book's theme is consistent, that Maldraxxus is a place where those who should be punished by Revendreth are sent and then allowed to commit atrocities in the name of protecting the Shadowlands.>

Commento di DaemoniKira

This is definitely quite an interesting perspective, and one that I shared toward the beginning of Shadowlands when I wasn't quite clear on what the Covenants did, how they differed, or what their purposes were. Now after all this time and all these quests, and having completed each of the Covenant campaigns, I realize I had entirely forgotten about this belief I held -- a sort of "numbing" or "desensitization" of the cruelties of Maldraxxus.
I guess the Necrolord Covenant campaign shows us that Maldraxxus isn't completely crooked / cruel, and some of the things they do that seem terrible (like the Abominations / Constructs / Stitchyard) can be good, depending on the reason it's done. When we build the Stitchyard, we are told that there are some souls who don't have bodies (though I don't recall why), and how these Constructs allow these souls to uhh... "live"?... a... "normal"?... "life"? Perhaps "experience a better afterlife" is better phrasing.

But it is an interesting perspective that there are many souls in Maldraxxus that probably should have been sent to Revendreth, by most "people's" standards... But then again, if that were the case, then that would mean the Arbiter is fallible and prone to making mistakes, which it has been hammered into us is absolutely NOT the case -- she has never made and could/would never make a mistake in where to send a soul.
Honestly, the Eternal Ones and the brokers in Zereth Mortis speak about the "Makers" with such reverence, but... the Arbiter is ~~basically~~ totally omniscient, which is god-level OP capabilities... But the Arbiter was made by the Makers... so that should make the Makers more powerful... but then Pelagos becomes the Arbiter, and he was just a soul who got sent to Bastion and basically couldn't cut it so he became the Arbiter...? That one still eludes me. I'm still lost regarding how all that works.

Idk. I just found this thought-provoking. I find it interesting that anyone in the Shadowlands would hold such a... controversial... opinion such as this... and publish a book about it!

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