Knowledge shall lead the...

[Corwin]

I believe in the concept of a just war, and I will lead soldiers and fight in person as needed in them

[Anastasia]

Then is the Blood War a just war for the devils? For if they did not fight, Hell wound be razed by the Abyss. Would you join them in that war?

[Corwin]

The concept of a just war is objective rather than subjective. Just because some might say the Abyss is worse than the Hells doesn't automatically mean I should fight on their side. In fact, may both sides lose.

Seira snorts, shaking her head in amusement. If you would like to discuss the Just War theory, perhaps we could do so in person? I'm more than willing to elaborate on its principles and defined it properly for the discussion.

[Anastasia]

Tell me one thing: Is it wrong for the devils to defend themselves against the Abyss?

[Corwin]

Swallowing a sigh, Seira responds.

The doctrine of Just War details several aspects which could be grouped into two sections, one detailing the right to go to war and the other dictating proper conduct during the war. In the case of the Blood War, the Hells can be said to satisfy the first aspect. At the very least, it would require careful consideration before dismissing the case, given it is a defensive war and they are the attacked party but also in that I doubt their goal is merely to keep the demons out of Avernus rather than the wholesale genocide of demons. The second clause, that of conduct during the war, is what makes their defensive war unjust.

[Anastasia]

There is no answer to that, only the depths of this lake inviting you down deeper.

[Corwin]

Things are often complex, and interplanar wars often have that distinction as well.

Seira doesn't add to that, swimming down!

[Anastasia]

You begin to swim down dee -

"Look up!" Ranbar calls abruptly.

[Corwin]

Seira dodges left even as she looks at what drew Ranbar's warning!

Perception 114

[Anastasia]

Bad dodge, bad dodge! You see they're all coming down - great motes of light. A swarm of souls, pouring down around all of you.

Were you anything but divine, you would be lost forever. For you are bombarded with flashes of a thousand lives, eladrin souls racing past you. Yet your divine nature allows you to wade the storm and shake it aside. A mere glimpse at souls moving down, deeper yet.

[Corwin]

Seira continues her trek, keeping an extra eye out for any wandering souls.

[Anastasia]

"So eladrins who keep going end up here?" Donald asks, "Only to do it all over again in a new life?"

[Corwin]

"It's the place where the magic of reincarnation happens! Try to avoid the traveling souls, will you?"

[Anastasia]

Donald cracks a grin, "Count on it! I don't want to stop being me!"

Ranbar smiles a little at that as well, "Happiness with yourself is a sign of wisdom or great foolishness. Seira, which is it for Donald?"

[Corwin]

"Even a broken clock is right twice!"