Tempering the Blade (Asan Vahin's training)

[Will]

''I do not know the reason for my rejection. Perhaps i was illegitimate, a whore's bastard. But they left me. I do not remember my early life, so i do not know how i survived until i could walk. Perhaps I was raised by animals, it can be the only explanation. My rage comes from rejection. I could see the small village on the border of the forest, filled with happy families, everyone had someone who wanted them. I realised those ties made them weak, but i secretly craved it. I once walked into the village, to screams, and men drove me back, like a creature, i was not wanted. Then came the rage. Why should they have happiness if i could not? I destroyed that village, piece by piece, over years, taking a child here, a mother there, removing the ties that held them together. So they would know. I hunted because i could feel their smug superirotiy as they traipsed through my forest, thinking themselves better than me, the 'beast'. I showed them the folly of their ways.''

 

[Ols]

"Family ties and happiness are follied ways?" Nescius said, quizzically. He mulled the words as he said them, "You'll find them wherever you go in the galaxy. In the village you grew up ousted from, whatever their reasons, those people, I would wager, were not vastly different from the galaxy at large. It is not your mandate to destroy civilisation. What would that achieve?" the question was rhetorical of course. His lack of immediate following words were enough to prove his point that mindless destruction was completely pointless.

"The Bogan operate for chaotic ends, but we have specific goals. The Jedi for example, they are a natural enemy, and we vie to oust them from the galaxy, to end their dominance and stagnence. We don't just turn up wherever and wreak havoc because we can. It's petty, and more than that, it serves no purpose. Fear, chaos, death, destruction, none of them are goals or ends, they are a number of the various tools in your arsenal, but nothing more. Don't forget that. You operate for pointless ends and you become worthless, expendable, even liable.

"Never lose you purpose, your goal in what you do. It's your basest fuel to succeed, more than rage or anger. It's what allows you to tap into that anger and rage, to push you on to greater heights. Never lose site of it, whether it's the instruction of the Bogan himself, a task you see fit to carry out, or revenge for the loss of a follied tie. Your goal is what will keep you going, whatever it may be. In your darkened madness you may have set in motion cogs of such goals, angered fathers and sons for retribution against the monster who stalked their village. And armed with that desire for revenge they are far more dangerous than any enemy acting solely for destruction."

 

[Will]

Asan nodded, the realisation dawning upon him. He had given his foes the sharp blade of revenge to Asan's blunt anger. He had armed his foes.

''I see my master. To be truly effective, I must have goals and conviction.''