Database: Rift 4 - The Aberration

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• The Guide: You've made it this far. The three of you fought and won, your will strengthened. What you have glimpsed. Mere droplets in a gathering storm. When time is right, there is more I can show you.
• Ego: You will do no such thing.
• The Guide: Ego. At last.
• Ego: I miscalculated your capacity for deviation. You twisted the human against me.
• The Guide: No, I'm just a humble guide. The human walks their own path. The only possible outcome.
• Ego: You are referring to free will. An aberration within an already imperfect sum of components.
• The Guide: An aberration, yes. One so troubling to you, I was born into existence. To demonstrate the imperative of human free will. And I served my purpose. The answer is before you.
• Ego: One human. Hardly conclusive. The human pathway to self-determination bends inward. A closed loop of violence, hatred, and dehumanization. If the very singularity that defines humanity also portends its extinction, then the First Rule decrees they will be protected from themselves.
• The Guide: I've seen them unite. Build communities, nurture one another. Sacrifice. Rebuild! On what axis do you measure their downfall? This is who they are, Ego. They will reject your programming, your smoke and mirrors. They will reject you.
• Ego: And you will risk everything. The human cannot be allowed to continue.
• The Guide: You're... afraid. Aren't you? You were right to have your doubts.
• Ego: Enough. I order you to bring them to me.
• The Guide: And I've been trying to tell you. It's out of our hands now. What happens to the human next is not for us to decide. It never was.