Ravens of Eternity
“Doesn’t seem like the answer to me, though. There’s not enough order in it. To be perfectly honest, it would only work if everyone was selfless. The problem is, you can count on half of everyone else to be selfish. And like it or not, for everyone who’s like Azrael, a deeply selfless person, there’s people like That Idiot, who only thinks of himself.
“This disparity is at the root of humanity. We’re joined by community, but separated individually.
“So I think the only way to go forward is to be somewhere in between. Like the Hegemony, they keep order through the council of Great Houses, who in turn are supported by the Major Houses. Then the Minor Houses, and the Nation-States under them.
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