My best theory so far — from a more sensible angle untouched by a breed of madness often demonstrated by nobility — is that the current benefit is knowledge. Using the Cwyld to experiment on humans and monsters is unethical by common standards. Given how the group is mostly made up of the upper class, and the documented victims constitute the lowest, it's all too easy to suspect that this group is using their power and connections to conduct such experiments below the public eye. None of them would care if people they must consider quite dispensable disappear... not to mention the most destitute do that all the time.
If this is all true, and if they are making real progress in understanding the Cwyld intimately enough to combat it, it really might not be such a bad thing for Geardagas in the long run. It's just that the means to this end are checkered and rife with risk.
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My best theory so far — from a more sensible angle untouched by a breed of madness often demonstrated by nobility — is that the current benefit is knowledge. Using the Cwyld to experiment on humans and monsters is unethical by common standards. Given how the group is mostly made up of the upper class, and the documented victims constitute the lowest, it's all too easy to suspect that this group is using their power and connections to conduct such experiments below the public eye. None of them would care if people they must consider quite dispensable disappear... not to mention the most destitute do that all the time.
If this is all true, and if they are making real progress in understanding the Cwyld intimately enough to combat it, it really might not be such a bad thing for Geardagas in the long run. It's just that the means to this end are checkered and rife with risk.