001 | Dragon's Daughter

[dorzalta]

>>FROM:@STORMBORN
>>TO:@ALL

Well met, allies. I require a service. Infiltration of the palace was a success; however, during part of my daily tasks, I'd stumbled upon a number of burned letters in the hearth. There appears to be four participants, one of which we cannot identify.

We do not hail from these lands, but to my understanding, some of you may recognize details that would otherwise be mistaken for little to no significance.

[ There will be images of the scavenged scraps of paper, clearly charred. To those familiar with Earth writing from this period, the handwriting will look strangely modern. The writer may seem to even be attempting unsuccessfully to ape an earlier style, but he(?) can't quite manage it. ]


[ ooc: this is for the Royal Pain mission! Help a sister and her boys out? :> Also, Jon might be threadjacking, so if you want to speak to Dany specifically, make it a private message. ]

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[dorzalta]

>>FROM:@STORMBORN
>>TO:@HAWKWARD

Imprisoned or exiled. I see. So the children are meant to suffer for a parent's deeds, even in this place. Thank you for sharing this with me.

Far worse than history already is? Death and war always seem to follow, no matter what action is taken. In my world, war is nearly a way of life, and were we to allow it to continue, nothing would change. No chance for the future. No hope for those oppressed. Whose perspective deems it so terrible a thing? I'm neither arguing for or against altering time, but I wonder how terrible these consequences may be.

I can try to obtain some. You'll remain available?

[alsohawkeye]

>>FROM:@HAWKWARD
>>TO:@STORMBORN

I understand how you feel. It's difficult to stand idly by and allow bad things to happen to people again just because they've happened before. And even worse to be told you have to help those things happen just because they've happened before. It must be especially difficult when it's not your own world's history and you have no attachment to one way being the real history and another being a change.

Once, a friend of mine traveled through time to try to stop himself from growing up to become an evil, murderous tyrant. If that's not a noble cause what is, right? But even with all his good intentions the end result was the world in ashes. And that's before we even get into the danger of time paradoxes and diverging timestreams and destabilizing time itself. I'm not saying don't try to change your world, of course we have to try to make our worlds better. But you change that by working on the present and the future, not by messing around with the past.

Plus, I know it may be hard to imagine given how much carnage is going to happen here but this revolution is actually incredibly important and has a positive impact on the world overall. People throwing off the yoke of an oppressive monarchy to choose their own leaders is a really big step, and the French Revolution is a big part of the reason democracy catches on and spreads and helps create a more equal society. If this gets messed up somehow it could be catastrophic.

Sorry, I don't mean to lecture at you. I've just been thinking about this a lot myself, if you couldn't tell. I'll remain available.