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A killer snuffs out the [[life]] of another being.
'''Killers''' are not whole species. Although [[Marikith|marikith]] are known in [[Paridon]] as the ''shadow killers'', they and all fellow generic creatures fail to meet the requirements. Killers are either named individuals or are categories of such individuals, who take one or more lives of at least some note. The swatting of house flies by [[Bryonna]] or the destruction of nests of cockroaches by [[Vermin Killer|vermin killers]] fails to meet the requirements. Lives of at least some note are those of NPCs. The [[God-Brain|Darklord of Bluetspur]] devouring the [[brain]] of [[Marcu Vasilis (Gambler)|Marcu Vasilis]] or [[executioner|executioners]] [[beheading]] individuals condemned to [[:category:Death|death]] for their [[crime|crimes]] meets the requirements. Equally, lives of some note are those of generic creatures which in the circumstances of their deaths pose at least some danger to their killers. [[Old Singe]] poisoning to death the generic crewmen of the [[Sunset Empires]] meets the requirements. [[Assassins]], [[mercenaries]], [[soldiers]], and [[Big Game Hunter|big game hunters]] are likewise killers. Such are the difficulties of an adventurous life that it is all to easy become a killer. Still, adventurers are well advised to avoid becoming [[murderer|murderers]]. Every murderer is a killer, but not every killer is a murderer. It is in fact possible to become a killer yet retain one's [[innocence]].


Depending upon the identity of the killer, of the killed, and of the witness, the act of killing may, or may not, constitute a [[crime]]. A [[lumberjack]] might think nothing of killing a tree; the [[state]] would agree with him so long as the tree was his to kill and as long as any consequent taxes were paid; a [[druid]] would agree with neither and might well see any gratuitousness on the part of the lumberjack as a crime.
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Most individuals, however, do not even conceive of men armed with blades in fields or forests as  killers. Indeed many individuals fail to conceive of themselves as killers as they stamp on the heads of [[vermin]]. And what about medical researchers experimenting on [[animals]]? To say nothing of [[mad scientists]] obsessed with stealing the fire of the [[gods]] and creating life . . . .  Did [[Dr. Victor Mordenheim]] pause to wonder if he was a killer upon deciding to shut off the [[laboratory pump]] that was keeping the [[brain]] of [[Rudolph von Aubrecker]] alive? The threshold beyond which one becomes a killer in one's own eyes is flexible, all too conveniently flexible.
 
And what of the living confronting the undead? A creature that has returned from the [[grave]] is not exactly dead and is not exactly alive. It is trapped somewhere in between. One robs precious little from a [[skeleton]] in destroying it. One robs an existence at least as rich as that of a living man from a vampire in delivering it to the true death. The soul has perhaps long fled the rotted shell of the zombie. But is it absent from the titanic intellectual existence of the lich? Isn't there something wrong in speaking of, on one hand, ''destroying vampires" and, on the other, ''killing mold"? Isn't it ''things'' that one ''destroys'' and ''subjects'' that one kills? Is a vampire any less a subject than a living man? Is a living man any less a thing than a vampire? The difference, if there is one, is "life" itself. Both creatures exist, both may revel in their existence. Only one "lives", only one is [[druid]] approved as "natural", only one is [[cleric]] approved as being "pumped full of [[positive energy]]", only one is [[biologist]] approved as being obedient to "received biological ideas". There is generically right being and generically wrong being. There is us and there is them. We are capable of good and evil, and so cannot be justly executed unless we are judged fairly and found to be guilty. They are not true individuals, they are generically evil, and so we can do no evil in wiping them from existence for no injustice can be done to them. Or might it be better to say that a killer is one who snuffs out the existence of another creature?

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Killers are not whole species. Although marikith are known in Paridon as the shadow killers, they and all fellow generic creatures fail to meet the requirements. Killers are either named individuals or are categories of such individuals, who take one or more lives of at least some note. The swatting of house flies by Bryonna or the destruction of nests of cockroaches by vermin killers fails to meet the requirements. Lives of at least some note are those of NPCs. The Darklord of Bluetspur devouring the brain of Marcu Vasilis or executioners beheading individuals condemned to death for their crimes meets the requirements. Equally, lives of some note are those of generic creatures which in the circumstances of their deaths pose at least some danger to their killers. Old Singe poisoning to death the generic crewmen of the Sunset Empires meets the requirements. Assassins, mercenaries, soldiers, and big game hunters are likewise killers. Such are the difficulties of an adventurous life that it is all to easy become a killer. Still, adventurers are well advised to avoid becoming murderers. Every murderer is a killer, but not every killer is a murderer. It is in fact possible to become a killer yet retain one's innocence.

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