The Stellar Swordmaster - Ch. 91
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Glad the normal citizens are on his side.
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He should have killed that priest too
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I guess Josef decided to call in the favor that paladin owes Vlad and sent the other knight with the message. The show of public support is both a smokescreen to keep Bishop Sinister (dude looks like a villain with that face) from realizing it and maybe preparation for making a play against the church at large, using Vlad's trial as a pretext.
Gonna guess that Vlad will either speak the parts of the truth that are necessary, omitting any mention of spirit dude (since that's pretty sus from a religious point of view), or go ham with the full truth and somehow still pass the holy magic part of the trial. Regardless, Bishop Amogus will still have a way to declare him guilty, so whatshername will have a chance to come in and raise her flag in the fight over marrying Vlad... err, declare the trial invalid or something cuz Bishop Evulz is secretly working with the masters of bad juju.
Gonna guess that Vlad will either speak the parts of the truth that are necessary, omitting any mention of spirit dude (since that's pretty sus from a religious point of view), or go ham with the full truth and somehow still pass the holy magic part of the trial. Regardless, Bishop Amogus will still have a way to declare him guilty, so whatshername will have a chance to come in and raise her flag in the fight over marrying Vlad... err, declare the trial invalid or something cuz Bishop Evulz is secretly working with the masters of bad juju.
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We will just have to hope something along those lines happens. I get the feeling the paladin is further connected with higher up than bishop twat.
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Her design screams "I am important", so there is no way she is unimportant. More importantly, this is an arc about the church and she and Father Andrea are the only relevant characters Vlad is connected with, so narrative logic dictates at least one of them will show up.
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It would've been totally out of character for him to attack someone who doesn't immediately seem to deserve it, but... yeah, things would be a lot simpler if he had, huh? Like, if they wanna play games like this, all Vlad had to do was be like "the murderer you were trying to pardon killed the priest because he thought he was with us" or something. The priest was alone, he had no witnesses on his side- literally everyone else was killed, so as long as they got all the knights' stories straight the Bitchop couldn't do shit, lol. I think a stunt like that would probably irreparably break Vlad, though; I doubt he'd be able to sleep at night ever again if he became the same type of scheming murderer as the knight who set him off on his current path to begin with. Probably couldn't live with himself at all...
He covers up a slave trader knowing exactly what that person did - it seems to me like a quite legit moral reason to behead that asshole along with main target
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Oh definitely, I completely agree with you on the external side of reasoning this out, I was just trying to judge him as Vlad would see him in-universe: you've got the obvious evil, the murderer and slave trafficker, who obviously deserves to die; then you've got... some fuckin guy who came here essentially as a messenger to do a job assigned by his boss. Sure, he's protecting a fucking monster, and we're fully aware of the entire situation and every character's angle in it, but for all Vlad knows this random priest might not have even initially known that- maybe he was just told, "a man who made a small mistake needs our protection & has made amends with our faith, we just need you to deliver the message" by that scheming fuck of a Bishop, or any number of similar scenarios. The priest is there on orders from above, after all, and he says as much as well. If Vlad knew how much trouble he was about to get into he probably would've understood the priest was a fuckin shitheel & killed them both, but lacking that kind of knowledge all he knew was that there was one man he knew he needed to kill and one man slightly interfering... and said man isn't, like, physically interfering, he just delivered a piece of paper that Vlad doesn't give a fuck about & won't stop him from physically gutting the bastard, just make things a pain afterward. So, again, from a broader perspective (ours) you're right, but Vlad's view of things at the time wouldn't paint the dude as someone worthy of death.
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