Back when I was at Cumberland, I dismissed a lot of what I heard from outside Nevarra as exaggeration. Or perhaps cases where things were stretched too thin, oversight was insufficient. Since the war [not the current one against Corypheus] and seeing more of the world, I think ... Many people in the Order are individuals of good faith. But part of why I left is that I think the structure of it. What gets permitted. What gets promoted, even. There aren't built-in checks to stop a great deal of what I'd once thought were aberrations.
[Another short pause, as if he might stop there. Then:]
I still believe there are many genuinely good men and women in the Order. I never stopped believing that. But from what I've seen, there are also many, some high-ranking, who believe that anything done under the Order's banner is good by definition. And that can lead to dark places.
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Back when I was at Cumberland, I dismissed a lot of what I heard from outside Nevarra as exaggeration. Or perhaps cases where things were stretched too thin, oversight was insufficient. Since the war [not the current one against Corypheus] and seeing more of the world, I think ... Many people in the Order are individuals of good faith. But part of why I left is that I think the structure of it. What gets permitted. What gets promoted, even. There aren't built-in checks to stop a great deal of what I'd once thought were aberrations.
[Another short pause, as if he might stop there. Then:]
I still believe there are many genuinely good men and women in the Order. I never stopped believing that. But from what I've seen, there are also many, some high-ranking, who believe that anything done under the Order's banner is good by definition. And that can lead to dark places.