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"Official" Perspective on Lawbreaking
blackstaff67:
--- Quote from: Tedronai on November 07, 2014, 06:31:50 AM ---Hard-line old-school warden gets the case? A ten minute 'investigation, 5 minute 'trial', and a quick death.
Ramirez-era or similar warden gets the case? A much longer investigation, an actual trial, and the potential for rehabilitation.
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Put much better than I did.
horngeek:
I suspect this is the sort of thing that would actually be a 'even the most hardliner of Wardens would at least consider the Doom over execution'.
Hope, anyway. :P
dragoonbuster:
--- Quote from: Asleif on November 05, 2014, 10:12:11 AM ---I have a hard time picturing them killing kids...
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The Wardens are by and large fanatical about taking down Lawbreakers. Harry's mentioned multiple times that they murder child Lawbreakers. We don't know the proportion of them like Morgan who are hard-mouthed and go about their business without complaint and the ones that will carry it out but aren't happy about it. In my opinion, only the young, Harry-worshipping Wardens would consider the Doom for even a young kid if the 1st Law violation is obvious.
The Doom is implied to be a rare situation, partly because most of the time the Wardens just lop heads, partly because there isn't usually a wizard willing to take responsibility for the one with the Doom over their head, since recidivism means death for the sponsor too.
Escher:
Harry got Lawbreaker from that first event, killing Justin, but the Velvet Room wouldn't be enough to give him a second rank since he'd have to kill thrice to get it again, right?
But that aside, in the light of Turn Coat, I guess we have to consider that the Wardens' behavior (and the senior council's, actually) is suspect to being mentally influenced. Molly said if it was her, she'd tweak and nudge their behaviors, amping up some aspects of personality (paranoia, anger, conservatism, fatalism, etc) and suppressing others (mercy, empathy, trust, etc). Do we have any way to tell how long Peabody had been exerting influence on the Council? It's possible that he's been doing it for a very long time, so the 'old-school hardline wardens' may or may not be an accurate look at wardens in general. The new-school wardens may be more in line with what the wardens looked like three hundred years ago.
BearsDragon:
Ohhh, I like the way you think.
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