[Lyall settles, and listens patiently, nodding thoughtfully, though in the end there's one thing that doesn't fit:]
It's a good theory, and it may have some truth to it, but I do believe they have told some of us that they choose to play this game, in order to revive their fallen allies. Something about this game gives them the power to do something they want, whether that desire is to save lives or destroy them.
[He pauses, thinking.]
Rather, putting it that way, it sounds like Questing Country-- everyone went through trials and tests to try and win the Valance, which gave the winner a wish to change something in the real world.
I'll grant that they may have other ways of obtaining this power than through the game, which was also something we discovered in Questing Country, but perhaps they simply don't know that, and so they are trapped into this particular sort of game.
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[Lyall settles, and listens patiently, nodding thoughtfully, though in the end there's one thing that doesn't fit:]
It's a good theory, and it may have some truth to it, but I do believe they have told some of us that they choose to play this game, in order to revive their fallen allies. Something about this game gives them the power to do something they want, whether that desire is to save lives or destroy them.
[He pauses, thinking.]
Rather, putting it that way, it sounds like Questing Country-- everyone went through trials and tests to try and win the Valance, which gave the winner a wish to change something in the real world.
I'll grant that they may have other ways of obtaining this power than through the game, which was also something we discovered in Questing Country, but perhaps they simply don't know that, and so they are trapped into this particular sort of game.