[Was it unfair to hold this Soren accountable for uncontrolled attacks against his Bonded? Probably. But it wasn't about to stop him, especially when hearing any detail of the assault on Mettaton... how without intervention, he might well have pierced the core of him. Had he shown any remorse for his actions...? The Ascian assumed not, if he claimed not to remember. Why feel guilty for acts one couldn't recall? But responsibility remained.
And electricity worked, at least. Something for him to remember. And also something to research: what was effective and what wasn't, when it came to this particular type of monster? Emet-Selch had looked into dragons in general, with K'rihnn being one- but the miqo'te was a thunder dragon; a black dragon presumably had different capabilities.
But he pushes aside the thought for the moment; violence may not be the last resort, but it wasn't the first resort either.
So: they were facing another mage (at least originally), and someone who seemed to not favor the obliteration of humanity. In the Ascian's book, that latter point was another strike against him, but it possibly made him less of a potential loose cannon. A dour sort of hero, perhaps. While it certainly wasn't an elimination of the danger, he could grudgingly lower the immediacy of it.]
From your description of him- dull and humorless, yet taken by heroic tales- 'tis entirely possible that he genuinely wants nothing from you. In such case, no offer you could make would sway him, and with no obvious gain to telling anyone of it, no reason to bother.
But should such a reason appear... well, I suppose it would depend on what it was. Whether he would gain more from having this leverage over you, or more from revealing it without warning.
[But there was no guarantee that the Ascian's assessment was correct- that this was an indifference of neutrality, and not one of carelessness, where it was information to spread on a whim because the content of it just didn't matter.]
Avoidance is mere mitigation... but there may be some means of removing the threat. Non-lethally, of course.
[In retrospect, he probably shouldn't have offered to kill someone over these devices. How secure were they? But there was no need for providing further evidence of planned wrongdoing (though there was nothing wrong about any of this). And if there was magic that existed for solving this problem, Emet-Selch very much doubted that it was of an approved variety.]
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[Was it unfair to hold this Soren accountable for uncontrolled attacks against his Bonded? Probably. But it wasn't about to stop him, especially when hearing any detail of the assault on Mettaton... how without intervention, he might well have pierced the core of him. Had he shown any remorse for his actions...? The Ascian assumed not, if he claimed not to remember. Why feel guilty for acts one couldn't recall? But responsibility remained.
And electricity worked, at least. Something for him to remember. And also something to research: what was effective and what wasn't, when it came to this particular type of monster? Emet-Selch had looked into dragons in general, with K'rihnn being one- but the miqo'te was a thunder dragon; a black dragon presumably had different capabilities.
But he pushes aside the thought for the moment; violence may not be the last resort, but it wasn't the first resort either.
So: they were facing another mage (at least originally), and someone who seemed to not favor the obliteration of humanity. In the Ascian's book, that latter point was another strike against him, but it possibly made him less of a potential loose cannon. A dour sort of hero, perhaps. While it certainly wasn't an elimination of the danger, he could grudgingly lower the immediacy of it.]
From your description of him- dull and humorless, yet taken by heroic tales- 'tis entirely possible that he genuinely wants nothing from you. In such case, no offer you could make would sway him, and with no obvious gain to telling anyone of it, no reason to bother.
But should such a reason appear... well, I suppose it would depend on what it was. Whether he would gain more from having this leverage over you, or more from revealing it without warning.
[But there was no guarantee that the Ascian's assessment was correct- that this was an indifference of neutrality, and not one of carelessness, where it was information to spread on a whim because the content of it just didn't matter.]
Avoidance is mere mitigation... but there may be some means of removing the threat. Non-lethally, of course.
[In retrospect, he probably shouldn't have offered to kill someone over these devices. How secure were they? But there was no need for providing further evidence of planned wrongdoing (though there was nothing wrong about any of this). And if there was magic that existed for solving this problem, Emet-Selch very much doubted that it was of an approved variety.]