"Are you certain you are not a god?" Bayek says that with a bit of dry humor, because the sheer scale that this implies is beyond anything he could have ever imagined.
"You say you need someone to act on your behalf. I cannot do that if I do not know what your behalf entails, and you will find that I have little respect for positions. It is the character of the one holding that position that I care about."
"Quite sure." He sends Bayek a peentrating look, not quite a frown.
"I seek to change the systems that define our understanding. That is what I ask of my intermediaries: that they be agents of change, but deliberate, not... precipitous."
“I will keep my own counsel on seeking change or not.” There’s no outright challenge in his tone, but Bayek is very firm when he says that. He sees nothing wrong with the idea itself, but he’s also all too well aware that one person’s idea of good change is another’s season of oppression. So many of the Order had seen themselves as visionaries, leading Egypt into a new golden age, but blind to the destruction their lofty goals were leaving in their wakes.
"Not purpose so much as necessity," the figure answers, crisply. "The stagnant patterns of our game and our interactions no longer serve our interests, and from what I hear from Travelers, they serve yours poorly as well. I wish to redefine the nature of our associations."
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"You say you need someone to act on your behalf. I cannot do that if I do not know what your behalf entails, and you will find that I have little respect for positions. It is the character of the one holding that position that I care about."
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"I seek to change the systems that define our understanding. That is what I ask of my intermediaries: that they be agents of change, but deliberate, not... precipitous."
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“What is the purpose you seek change for?”
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