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       “ I don't think I have a conscience, and I don't think anyone else really does either. I think we pretend to because we know we're supposed to have one, but it's just a case of the blind leading the blind. Everyone pretends  they do, and all we see is people upholding the illusion that they themselves aren't different. It's all a lie.  The proof is everywhere, so I'll just grab the closest example. This island war has all the proof you need. People pretend they have some innate sense of right and wrong, but if you give them the slightest excuse,  they will happily and fervently do unspeakable things to other men.  They'll enslave cities and slaughter civilians just because someone else said it was okay. Just because someone else said that their victims are the enemy . ”  Character Name: Norman Shawcross First Appearance: The Ocean Has Her Reasons (Interitus 3, The Brimstone Isles) Eye Color: Hazel Endurance:    17  ...

     “ I guess... you're looking at it all wrong. I wasn't a good man, or a bad man, or any of that. I was just a guy who had a kid when I was young. I didn't care about anything else, really. I remember feeling so scared when I found out she was pregnant. I was too young to handle it, and she refused to partake in our child's life. I had no idea how I would care for myself, let alone for a baby girl. Or at least, that was true until she was born. Everything changed in the instant I saw her. I was the only one she had in her life, and she was the only thing I had in mine. The one thing that kept me going. At the time, I guess... I felt like everything I had and all that I did was for her.       “ So when the civil war started, me and my daughter left for a house by the sea. Just far enough from the city to be safe. It was... hard to stay isolated. All anyone wanted to talk about. Everyone was taking sides, but I never cared much for politics. I just wa...