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Ragabash Shadowlords

Here are my answers to your questionnaire, speaking as a Ragabash of the Shadow Lords:

🐺 The Ragabash's Creed

What motivates you most?

• Personal strength and victory
  • Justice is weak without the power to enforce it. Victory is the only true measure of worth. We must be the strongest.

How do you view technology?*

• A tool to adapt and survive
  • The Shadow Lords do not reject tools; we master them. If a phone call or an encrypted network can deliver a message faster than a runner, we use it. Power is in the control, not the medium.

Your ideal community would be:

• Hierarchical, led by the wise or strong
  • A clear chain of command prevents weakness and dissent. The strongest, the wisest, or the most cunning must rule, and the rest must follow to ensure the tribe's survival and dominance.

When faced with conflict, you prefer to:

• Outthink and manipulate
  • Direct confrontation is often crude and costly. As a Ragabash, I prefer to find the enemy's weak spot, sow discord among their ranks, and ensure my victory before the first claw is unsheathed. Subtlety is a razor.

How do you feel about rules and tradition?

• Question and challenge them if needed
  • Tradition is only useful if it ensures the tribe's strength. As a Trickster, it is my role to test the boundaries. If a rule is outdated, weak, or serves only the pride of an elder, it must be challenged or circumvented. We must evolve or die.

A corrupt official endangers the city. You:

• Work from the shadows, sabotage their plans
  • Drawing attention is a mistake. I would gather intel, find their deepest secret—the source of their power—and dismantle their operation piece by piece until they hang themselves with their own rope. Clean hands, effective results.

You encounter a helpless animal suffering. You:

• Rage against the cause, take direct action
  • A helpless victim is a weakness I cannot abide. I wouldn't just heal it; I would find who or what caused the suffering and ensure they learn a painful lesson about crossing the wild. Mercy is earned, not given.

Your group is divided on a decision. You:

• Push a strong point of view
  • Indecision is failure. I will use cunning, rhetoric, and all my wit to convince the others that my path is the path to victory. If necessary, I might sow distrust in the alternative. Someone must be decisive.

A stranger requests refuge. You:

• Size them up and test their worth
  • Refuge is a privilege, not a right. I would watch them closely, ask difficult questions, and perhaps set a task for them. Only those with value, loyalty, or potential strength deserve our protection.

You witness injustice. You:

• Plot a clever and discreet response
  • Rushing in is for fools. I would assess the power dynamic and craft a response that not only rights the wrong but also enhances my own position or the tribe's standing. Revenge should be subtle and devastating.

Which resonates with you?

• Urban life and modern spirit
  • The true struggle for power is in the world of man. The city is a crucible of ambition, technology, and hidden influence. To dominate Gaia's war, we must dominate man's world.

For you, leadership should be:

• Won through competition
  • Leadership must be earned through a display of strength, cunning, and will. No one is entitled to command; they must seize it and hold it against all challengers.

How do you treat secrets?

• Protect and use strategically
  • Secrets are leverage. They are weapons to be guarded closely and deployed only when they can secure a significant advantage. The less my allies know, the more power I hold.

How do you view modern human society?

• Fragile and corrupt
  • It is a house of cards, built on lies and weak institutions, constantly crumbling under the weight of its own failures. It is ripe for control and manipulation.

If given supernatural power, you’d:

• Fight the world’s greatest evils
  • I would focus the power on eliminating the greatest threats to our species and our dominance, ensuring that the Shadow Lords are the only power left standing at the end of the war.

Would you like me to elaborate on why the Ragabash—the Trickster—takes on this specific role within the Shadow Lords, or perhaps detail a specific covert operation I might undertake?