The Magnaura

[Cecil XIX]

Armatos is undeterrred. He crosses his arms and stands with his feet shoulder-length apart.

I stand by my claim! A man only operates from the shadows to hide himself from his enemies. But if his enemy does not know of him, if his enemy cannot even attempt to oppose him, then he cannot see his enemy's strength!

A soldier who does not cross paths with his opponent's sword knows nothing of combat! A scholar who is unware of contradictory ideas cannot strengthen his own! And a man who does not know the ideals of his enemies cannot understand justice! Without constant and early exposure to an enemy, a man cannot see his opponent's strength, and cannot easily learn how to discern it when returning into the light!

Iakovos was a member of this august body, and a Knight of the Order of St. John, before this busines came to head. He knew he had enemies from the start, and who they were, and thus his sword, his ideas and his ideals remained strong enough to survive even when he was operating from the shadows. For that he was a stronger man than you.

Yes, unlike him you abandoned the light to operate in the shadows. You were so skillful at hiding yourself from your enemies, so successful at avoiding their swords, their ideas and their ideals, that you had no idea what they could even look like! That is why you were unable to anticipate Symeon's usurpation, and even now you prove yourself unable to handle ideas contrary to your own!

And so, I repeat myself: Both you and anyone who remains entrenched in The Organization have no concept of justice!