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While it would be interesting, that sort of cooperation would go in direct opposition to the things both Duiran and Enorian have had drilled into them over the years - Shadow being the source of Dendara's problems and a massive danger to the Oak, and the repeated reminders that compromise with Darkness/Corruption/Undeath would be the end of Enorian.

The organizations in the Spirit tether have been conditioned over time to be adverse to working with Shadow tether people and orgs in any but the most dire circumstances.

LOL yeah, p much this. I wanted to mention those ominous dreams that like 50% of the citizenry got that basically forewarned if we kept working alongside Bamathis and/or Shadow, we'd essentially be led down the path of corruption and fail at the Beacon's goals. It felt very much like strong-arming us in a direction, or at the very least chastising us for potentially deviating.

If I recall correctly, bio energy utilises finely focused shadow/ambient shadow to bring about changes in the body. Obviously, you can use it for positive changes (bio knitting) or for malicious purposes (mutagens). That might already put a big old question mark on its utilization for Dendara-related initiatives (though syssin itself as a neutral class already uses plenty of ambient shadow stuff), but I do understand the hopeful intent behind the suggestion.

I do dislike restrictions between cross-tether interactions and RP, though. It stymies a lot of growth to personal storylines or even larger city-related ones. I do hope that this thread does foster a bit more thinking and reflection though. Could we change mindsets to make the relations in the game more dynamic? It definitely is possible.