"- I think part of it might be that there's a human impulse to believe you're Good, or not-that-bad, average, normal, at least sympathetic. And in Cheliax that gets pointed at - a different societal baseline, and also it's unsympathetic to be Good. No Chelish person would ever tell me - proudly - that they'd never deal in Maledictions, that they wouldn't stoop so low - not because they wouldn't have the impulse, but because their own internal interpretation of the impulse would be different.
I don't have it all figured out yet. I haven't, actually, spoken to all that many people outside Cheliax.
You're worried that he's a slaver and a cruel man, and that if I like him, then maybe I'm really and truly Lawful Evil after all, and not the Lawful Neutral you've been hoping and that I might be accused of projecting, when I speak to more mixed crowds. Yes?"