You read most? but not all? So you read what you chose, picked it out
basically. Nice.

First we need to define corruption. You see corruption as becoming more
real, with less shades of who want to be to who you actually are. I see
corruption in the reverse. If you are more corrupt, you are more fake.
So when you call me corrupt, I feel like I should take offense to that,
but I'm not sure how you perceive that.

The search for power does comes with the path you tread. It depends on
how you step to the future, whether you go through with ill intentions
or with good ones. Whether you feel like what you are doing is for the
good of all or not. In the history that I have read, it seems like the
leaders that are in it purely for themselves, without caring for their
citizens or "peons" as you said, don't tend to stay long in office. I
hold place in the House of Voltaire, and it's not because I seek
approval. It's because I seek to make the House a more effective
institution in which you could find the crafters you want, or if the
house required a clan, I would go out of my way to purchase one for the
House members. My actions don't require acceptance. I'm offering
assistance to who and what I love. I never said I don't care about them.
I cannot hold love anymore in the same place as I have before. I cannot
care for the small games that life plays, the drama it gives, because I
stepped away from all that. Hence I became cold. Not cold to touch,
though perhaps in undeath that is so. But cold in my actions to what
doesn't help support my House.

You will need as well to know me, or know someone else to deem if they
are corrupt or not. You see, there are different ways people seek to
fight corruption. I don't fight it, and I know of many other people who
do the same thing I do. We embrace it. If fighting it will reveal it's
volitile nature, why not take it as one of your own, lie and tell it
soothing words. Hence the quote
'...I learned to control my desires, to release them when it will only
cause pleasure. To hold my tongue, to stare at the eyes, to hold the
lust at back...' It's because I don't fight corruption. I know it is
there, but I don't let it become a part of me. I just accept that it is
as it is. That's how I overcame my corruption, making me a more pure
darkie than what you might imagine.

You do have the potential to do 'good' and be 'just'. But who is to say
you aren't already. Good and evil, though both seem insignificant and
not worth speaking about, are part of your life. It's a sin to do
without them as it is to not realize about the truth of corruption
[though it doesn't have to be your truth]. Morals aren't simply
anything. Morals is what you have grown to accept through your
upbringing. It's not truth, it's not light, it's not evil, it's not
dark. It's that little part of you that makes you cringe when you do
something that your mother or father wouldn't approve. It's that little
secret that you try to push away and fall through with calling your
actions truth.

I'm not corrupt. I don't accept money for political dealings. I do my
actions first, then if a donation would come on it's way, I could take
it. But if because I am standing my ground makes me corrupt, then how
about the rest of sapience that didn't respond, would they not be
corrupt so? I have been tainted somewhat, but that was in seeking out
love. It's the journey as always. Corruption is a journey. Being corrupt
is the end product. But it's not my journey. So no. I am not corrupt
now. I am not actively fighting it. I welcome it, take it within me, and
push it to the side. Because the moment that I start thinking about how
it all began, how sapience began or the Gods that created it, I will go
insane.

But let me put an emphisis on it as you did. You are not corrupt Aere.
You are beautiful until proven otherwise. In that beauty is truth. If
you speak of this corruption with malice you are ugly. If you speak with
this corruption because you honestly believe in it, you are good. If you
are making these posts because you want to keep a favor from your
Mother, then you are evil. Know yourself better, use less of a
stereotype to choose if another person is corrupt or not. Rising from
the ground each time you die, hopefully you would learn from your
mistakes and not die next time.


And Aere,
it's not Mr. Vampire.

With all the love I have,
Lord Caligo Voltaire

Penned by my hand on the 25th of Niuran, in the year 261 MA.