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The embattlements fortified, lines drawn deep into the dirt as the two tribes hurled their masses into the fray. "Death before defeat" was the mantra of the day and night as they each claimed the moral high ground, an ascension worship beyond reason, beyond rational. They each claimed the ultimate truth and vowed to purge the evil before them. And yet in the background the watchers were safe, immune from the devastation as they siphoned and skimmed the fat rising to the top of the spilt pooled blood. They built their towers tall and halls immovable with forced allegiance. And people were spent and maimed all to the watchers' elevation and delight...  as it should be... elevation at others' expense... as it should be.