Re: With Kalima
"Benny, how certain are you that the touch of Hermes, through you, would affect only actual evil this way? Might it, like Kalima's spear, have this effect because of the opposition of this man's origin to the sphere where Hermes resides, independent of the choices he has made in his life?
"I ask because every other demon we've seen since Kalima joined us has been violent and unhesitating in returning her animosity -- yet this man stood steady, both before her spear and as you tested him, despite what must have been terrible pain.
"No choice I might make, for instance to serve a god of fire, would ever erase the reaction of my flesh to that very fire I had sworn to serve; it is a physical vulnerability, and only specific magic could temporarily override it. Similarly, I believe that this man has chosen to serve the Tripartite god, despite his fleshly reaction to the holy.
"My Master, Albreth the Blind, once told me that you learn more about a man by what he does, than by the color of his skin or the shape of his ears. He was speaking, at the time, of Urhaqui, but might not the same principle apply to one born of demons?"