@Shayd said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@Arkandel : To be honest, I feel uncomfortable probably more because I think it's just me bringing up issues which are considered settled and overdiscussed and overargued. Also, I fucking hate slavery and thralldom A LOT. I don't want to look at it as an opportunity for roleplay when in reality if I discovered someone was holding thralls and had the weapons and political tools to stop it, I damned well WOULD, by force, and the idea that all the high and mighty noble houses that are "good" have been around for a thousand years and NOT rolled on Thrax like a Mack truck over a gopher makes all of those houses at the least complicit considering the fact that they're in an alliance. Which with the current threat makes sense to make uneasy allies, and that's how I'm roleplaying it; and willfully ignoring that for hundreds of years these houses have been sitting at the same table with a bunch of goddamn slavers.
I don't think you can call any of the noble houses "good", or the Faith "good", although they all have /good people/ in them. Pretty much every institution of Arx, if you read the help and theme files, is institutionally corrupt, and I think Apostate has said, at least once on channel, that addressing some of those things and doing the hard work of reforming them is part of the story. But thralls are terrible. Serfs, honestly, aren't /much/ better, despite being technically free. The Faith is largely corrupt, and engages in internal politics and backstabbing that's every bit as vicious as a great house (except for PCs). The shamanistic religions occasionally have to put down offshoots that go all human sacrifice-y. The Lyceum is filled with people who think upward mobility is best facilitated by poison (except for PCs). The Crown runs the Inquisition, which is /explicitly/ a bunch of murderous, torturing thugs (except for the PCs, who are honestly all pretty darned cool, that I've met).
Basically, Arx is largely the story of playing the (mostly) "good" people in a world that is kinda crapsack and horrible.