United Kingdoms

-It's obvious! As soon as I enter the city, there they are! And a guard rushes up to me. Then I walk around the city, and there are two of them! They're tying up some people right in the middle of the day. Where are the men supposed to come from if they're all being dragged to jail? Your guards are really going wild, aren't they?

— No more than in other cities. But it's unlikely that the guards are to blame for the fact that the men here are spineless, just skin and bones.

—Greetings, sister. I think you understand why we are here. -Achelsius didn't know how best to start the conversation in this situation, and tried to speak humbly and sympathetically. —I, no, we all deeply sympathize and feel for your misfortune. But sometimes the Mentor sets us tasks that turn out to be impossible to overcome... or to avoid great sacrifices... or to deviate from the chosen path... I understand that you were driven by the best intentions, but we cannot put ourselves above the laws of the kingdoms... -not finding how to finish his short monologue, the priest fell silent. "What nonsense am I saying to a person who is about to be executed. Just like that time, in the village. I will definitely need to talk to Sister Mirina later, to find out what she meant by that advice."

— You don't understand anything. We not only can... We must put ourselves above the laws created by godless people! — When Achelsius spoke about her deeds, Lariel's eyes lit up. — Kings and aristocrats proclaimed themselves as such, and their opinions do not reflect the desires and needs of ordinary people. They and their laws are chains with which they have enslaved the inhabitants of these lands and cut them off from the path to Enlightenment. We, servants of the church, help people with advice, but what do we actually do? We tell them to live according to the teachings of the Enlightened and at the same time obey the laws of the godless? How can this be? People waste their lives working in the interests of the aristocracy, they endure contemptuous treatment and live in poverty... Such an existence is not a test given to these people by the Mentor, it is slavery! Therefore, when we tell them to put up with it, we not only deceive them, we become accomplices of the godless aristocrats in their sin!