Knights of Tezoth

— I'm very glad you're here, — Stefania concluded.

Before deciding whether to go to the next colleague, the girl said she needed to find out how the other knights were feeling.

— Do you have any thoughts you'd like to share with me? Or maybe you'd be interested in finding out how the others are doing along with me?

- Thoughts... Stefania, what do you think — is the ambition and thirst that lives in the human heart a good thing or a bad thing for individuals and society, or maybe not so much? In a sense, it's precisely because of this that we ended up here, but on the other hand, it seems like this is exactly what lies at the foundation of everything we have now.

— Well... if you look at it from the perspective of those who could be harmed by others' ambitions, I suppose someone might say it's bad. For each individual, everything that forcibly drags them out of their comfort zone, deprives them of something, or makes them do what they categorically don't want to do is bad. If you look at the question more globally, essentially all progress stands on someone's ambitions and thirst for something. Take, for example, Eidos the Iron. Without his ambitions and desire to unite Tezoth for its protection, everything would have turned out quite differently. Who knows, maybe without that, a fragmented Tezoth would have long ago been swallowed by the monsters of regret. Do we need that? Nope.

- Without ambition, we'd still be living in caves, and someone would have had to step out of their comfort zone to get out of those too! Though I'm not sure whether people ever lived in caves or settled straight into cities? I don't remember what the historians of Cortina and the theologians of Osha say about that.

- But be that as it may, progress is great, no, even wonderful! But the thirst and ambition need to be pure, not selfish. Can you imagine, not long ago I had a dream in which some influential man, because of his love for a woman, exposed thousands of people to great danger — that's exactly the kind of thing you must never do! We need to think bigger! For Gildaria! For Lord Adalard! Long live His Radiance!
The unexpected guest who unceremoniously barged into the conversation of the two girls was the Knight of Unwavering Courage, Dalias Galiot. As his title suggests, he was known for his bravery, but not for his wits.
- Hmm! I hope I'm not interrupting you two? Because after the young lord, all sorts of thoughts creep into one's head at the sight of such a scene.