Quote Originally Posted by Plerumque View Post
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Why would he shield the city, then? Because he's a fundamentally good person and doesn't want the cycle broken at the cost of so many lives?
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I think he's a fundamentally good person and he doesn't want the cycle broken at all, for a reason unexplained.


Quote Originally Posted by AdmiralCheez View Post
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Maybe he's afraid to break the cycle? I mean, he's done this a hundred times over thousands of years, so maybe this is all he knows. Like he's just going through the motions because that's what he's supposed to do. It's his eternal destiny. Maybe he's tried to break the cycle in the past, and failed, realizing that trying to fight it is a futile effort.
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The Nightmare Knight does not seem like the kind of guy who would be afraid of doing something different--to me, at least.