§6Hello there PLAYERNAME.

§bPLAYERNAME?

§cOh I heard of that name before! Are they the..?

§6Yes indeed they are. Isn't it fascinating?

§bTo think that a mere mortal could actually ascend to a higher plane of existence, that they can now here us now, see us now, but will he ever comprehend us?

§6Indeed it is an inquiry if they can perceive us in his current form, maybe one day he'll be able to comprehend what we truly are.

§cAre we demons? Are we gods? Are we beings from a higher plane of existence?

§bFor us, they are nothing more than one of many across time and space.

§cA story so common and almost the same to everyone else that ever existed and will exist.

§6But at the same time, a story so unique and different that it stands out on its own.

§cHey wait a second, weren't we both?

§bYes we were, but that was a very long time ago.

§cAlmost feels like it was yesterday though...

§6Why don't you both stand aside for now, the rest of us wants to talk too.





§6PLAYERNAME.

§6You truly are fascinating.

§6Perhaps you seek something to gain, perhaps you already achieved it. But have you ever thought of what to do next after you finish it all?

§6The value of life, the value of love, the meaning of what?

§cTo Be Human?

§6Indeed it was an inquiry I asked myself.

§bA question you seemed for thousands of years. From the day we both met.

§cTo the day that we both died...

§6An inquiry that may or may not have an answer. What does it mean to be human?

§bPerhaps being human is to follow your natural instincts, to hunt, eat, breed, and other things.

§cBut to do some of the things that make us seem human, it also comes at a great cost.

§bSome break laws and rules made by humans.

§cWhile some encourage such disgusting behaviour.

§6Disgust of such is relative. When the morality is governed by what is taught and what they believe.

§bA world I was born. Harsh, cruel, twisted, and yet I was alive and well.

§cA world I was from. Perfect in every way, but a nightmare for those who aren't.

§6A world I was made. War and Peace but which was better or worse?

§cWhen there is peace, people forget why war happened before.

§bWhen there is war, humans don't know what they are fighting for.

§cPeople forget history.

§bAnd it is bound to repeat.

§cThe irony on how it starts.

§bThe “heroes” they claim are heretics.

§cWhen kindness is used on your enemy, you forget why they were your enemy.

§bResults are many, but one is certain that they'll use it against you.

§cWhen the world treats you and your people as evil just because of your people's history.

§bThey hide and ignore that everyone else did it too.

§cThe irony to call then evil, when they themselves do it too.

§bThe irony to act like the victim, when you started attacking first.

§6What does it mean to be human?

§bTo obey your masters?

§cTo become a cog in society?

§bTo hide what you are?

§cTo become someone you're not?

§bIndeed it is sad that we gotta submit.

§cIndeed it is mad that we gotta fit in.

§6What does it mean to be human?

§cTo love and care, for freedom and peace?

§bTo hate and destroy, for sacrifice and war?

§cI was taught that loving yourself and other people is the strongest out of all.

§bI was taught that sacrificing yourself to a god was the greatest achievement of all.

§6PLAYERNAME. What do you believe in?

§bPLAYERNAME. What do you think it means?

§cTo Be Human?



§2The function of man, then, is an activity of soul in accordance with reason, or at least not without reason. And the function of the good man is to perform this activity well and nobly.

§4The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.

§2The good for man is the activity of the soul in conformity with virtue, and if there are several virtues, in conformity with the best and most complete.

§4Let it make no difference to thee whether thou art cold or warm, if thou art doing thy duty; and whether thou art drowsy or satisfied with sleep; and whether ill-spoken of or praised; and whether dying or doing something else. For it is one of the acts of life, this act by which we die: it is sufficient then in this act also to do well what we have in hand.

§2The intellect rules the appetites as a master rules a slave.

§4Look within. Let neither the peculiar quality of anything nor its value escape thee.

§2Man is by nature a political animal. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

§4All existing things soon change, and they will either be reduced to vapour, if indeed all substance is one, or they will be dispersed.

§2Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

§4The reason which governs knows what its own disposition is, and what it does, and on what material it works.

§2The activity of reason, which is contemplative, seems both to be superior in worth and to aim at no end beyond itself. It is loved for its own sake, and it possesses a pleasure proper to itself, which augments its activity.

§4The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong doer.

§2Happiness, then, does not consist in amusement.

§4Take pleasure in one thing and rest in it, in passing from one social act to another social act, thinking of God.

§2It would indeed be strange if the end were amusement, and one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one’s life merely in order to amuse oneself.

§4The ruling principle is that which rouses and turns itself, and while it makes itself such as it is and such as it wills to be, it also makes everything which happens appear to itself to be such as it wills.

§2But the life of the virtuous man is serious; for it consists in virtuous activity, and such activity is essentially serious.

§4In conformity to the nature of the universe every single thing is accomplished, for certainly it is not in conformity to any other nature that each thing is accomplished…

§4Most of the things which the multitude admire are referred to objects of the most general kind… But he who values rational soul, a soul universal and fitted for political life, regards nothing else except this; and above all things he keeps his soul in a condition and in an activity conformable to reason and social life, and he co-operates to this end with those who are of the same kind as himself.

§4In this flowing stream then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? …

§4Neither is transpiration, as in plants, a thing to be valued, nor respiration, as in domesticated animals and wild beasts, nor the receiving of impressions by the appearances of things, nor being moved by desires as puppets by strings, nor assembling in herds, nor being nourished by food; for this is just like the act of separating and parting with the useless part of our food. What then is worth being valued? To be received with clapping of hands? No.

§4Suppose then that thou hast given up this worthless thing called fame, what remains that is worth valuing? This in my opinion, to move thyself and to restrain thyself in conformity to thy proper constitution, to which end both all employments and arts lead.

§4For every art aims at this, that the thing which has been made should be adapted to the work for which it has been made… But to reverence and honour thy own mind will make thee content with thyself, and in harmony with society, and in agreement with the gods…

§4As to the animals which have no reason and generally all things and objects, do thou, since thou hast reason and they have none, make use of them with a generous and liberal spirit. But towards human beings, as they have reason, behave in a social spirit.

§4…Short is life. There is only one fruit of this terrene life, a pious disposition and social acts. Do everything as a disciple of Antoninus.

§2To be human is to live according to reason, to cultivate virtue, to act within society, and to seek the highest good through contemplation — thereby fulfilling the true nature of man.