Silence!, shouted the moderator. The chattering din shut down. And immediately got replaced by a dim hum of voices. The moderator cleared her throat out aloud.
We know why we are here!, she said. Nods from the crowd. The state of the our realm is known to us all. We are the balancers of the cosmos. We are the caretakers of various realms. We are deities overseeing various human matters. In all our different roles, we are empowered by the forces of nature, and given the powers to complete our duties. Murmurs of agreements. However, she began, raising her voice, as we all know, we have always had certain...hindrances...to our duty. And more recently those hindrances have only gotten worse. We meet here today to agree on common response to the issue we're all facing. Shouts of agreements from the crowds.
We come here not as individuals or as individual creeds or races, but as a unified group solving the common problem. We may not see eye-to-eye on all matters, and we may fight on issues we disagree with. Those are the way families deal with conflict. The current matter involves our common enemies and the issues besieging us all, and needs a unified response. We cannot backtrack from our commitments, and any backstabbing will destroy us all in one move, we all agree on that, she said, raising her voice. Silence in the crowds. Some agreeing nods, some heads staring at the floor.
Our enemies hinder our actions. They attack our realms, when we try to spread our message of peaceful existence and structured respected societies, they wage wars with us. Instead, they try spreading their own polluted messages. What they want is complete subservience to themselves, regardless of one's actions. They let all sorts of evils and injustice pass by, just because those committing those actions happen to be their followers. We have over and over tried convincing the rulers of various realms, including that of the humans, that our way is better, that the path to greatness not lies with those atheistic nihilists, but with us. We have threatened and cajoled, but mostly convinced with generosity a vast number of followers that the path to peace and progress lies not in the wheels or the hands, but here, she said, raising her right tightened fist above her head. The crowd raised their tightened fists too, with shouts of encouragement and agreement. It's these two, she said, raising both her hands, open palms facing outside, that determine one's fate, we have said over and over again. Those who agree with us....have done great. Don't who don't...haven't...except for the fact that they somehow come to imbalance the orders, punishing our followers for our philosophy, and giving theirs unfair advantage. She took a long breath. The vast crowd looked at her eagerly, paying attention to each syllable of hers. She would be heard by trillions of beings across the cosmos.
And we cannot do anything. We agreed not to do anything. It's in our principles. We must let our followers live their own lives, without interfering in their daily matters. We want them to succeed on their own, to be the masters of their own realm. And they!--they take advantage of that! They believe that our principles and ideals are our weakness. They sneak in and out, micromanaging the affairs of the humans, changing fate as it were, not letting its take its course of action. As a result, our followers, and our principles are undermined every time they get involved. Nods of agreements. A few isolated claps.
We have not been silent. We have tried negotiating. We have threatened. We have waged wars with them. We have attacked and taken control of their realms. We have taken assistance from the holy trinity too, so that the rightness of our actions can be justified. It has all gone to vain. For they always use some trick or another, some old unremembered rule or a technicality they created out of nowhere, to beat us. They have never beaten us in a fair fight! Say it with me, "they have never beaten us in a fair fight!", she said, with exaggerated vigor. The crowd was electrified. They shouted in unison with her for three times, before going quiet.
Our very existence has been called to question. For if we are not to be given dignity and autonomy in our own matters, if we are to take in interference from our enemies just so often, let me ask you, what's the point of existing? Why exist, only to be enslaved and dominated by those beneath us, beneath our values and beliefs. We aren't being punished! We will not be punished! We will fight back, we cannot be ignored, she shouted, on the top of her voice. Shout with me! We will not be ignored! We will fight back!
We will not be ignored! We will fight back! We will not be ignored! We will fight back! We will not be ignored! We will fight back!
And we are assembled here today, to give them a message of our intention. If they don't heed our demands, we will embark on the largest battle the universe has ever seen. A war to end all wars. We will either make out of it as victors, or our pointless existence will have been eliminated! We will not lose! We will not lose! The crowd, which wall all standing now, each raised its weapon, and chanted with her. We will not lose! We will not lose! We will not lose!
The council, whom I'm representing here at this moment, has made the list of or demands. Representatives of all the clans and races have contributed to it. We will be distributing these to discuss amongst yourselves and take it to your realms. Figure out who our allies will be. See if the peoples of your realms can be convinced of these demands and our message. We believe our realms are on our side, and the time is right for a strike. I will be reading out the major demands, please show your support or disagreements by appropriate noises, she said. There was a round of agreeable grunts.
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