Today was pretty slow, which is a good thing all things considered. I hope to have more relatively slow days in the near future, it is definitely better than my people dying around me.

My paladins have so far swollen up to roughly twice their original numbers, and I expect their size to double twice more before all is said and done. The new blood is taking to the role quite well, and have adapted to the information and knowledge available to them very quickly. It won’t be long before they are using this knowledge like a third, or in one case seventh, arm.

Now that I think about it it’s weird how prevalent having two arms is, I can see how having a lot of them would get in the way, but having four or even six wouldn’t really get to that point. Plus you would have all of the benefits from having extra arms, like being able to carry more stuff or being able to do more things at the same time. I could see someone duel wielding two-handed weapons in a fight to great effect. I wonder why Origin designed so many species that way, nearly sixty-five percent of all sentient creatures have the whole Biped body set up, and most of those only have two arms. I get why that whole design is conducive to sentience, it enables easy use of tools which requires a certain level of intelligence. But why two arms? I’m likely never going to figure out the answer to this question without talking to an Origin, which is impossible now as there is way too much mana here for any origin to survive long enough for a conversation. I could try asking the dungeons though. I’ll see what they have to say about the subject tomorrow, or if I forget the next day.

As for my other project, I’m almost ready to move onto the next step. I’m still failing more than I am comfortable with, but it’s nowhere near as much. It’s one in twenty tries instead of one in four. I figure by the end of the day tomorrow I will be at a point that I’m satisfied with. If not I’ll just keep working on it I guess, but I so rarely undershoot my predictions when it comes to time.

I have decided that I should not manipulate the souls of other people in any way, to harm or to help, unless I either have their direct and explicit permission or if their soul is somehow at risk of being destroyed. Killing someone is one thing, in general, a bad thing but something that sometimes has to be done, but denying them a chance to reincarnate is so much worse. While I also still have qualms about messing with the fabric of someone’s being, the core of their personality. This doesn’t prevent me from doing things like connecting the souls of all of my followers, I just have to use my own soul stuff to do it, which I already intended on.

Other than that I spent my downtime with Kaire and Lulem, the eldest of the Ents. They have been doing really well for themselves, and are some of the most powerful people in our empire. Not quite top five, but definitely top ten. It makes sense considering the fact that a substantial portion of our population consists of Ents, and all of the Ents love them. And it is in large part thanks to them that Ents have gained a global reputation as adventurers, pretty much the entire culture that sprung up around my Ents revolves around being an adventurer, and everything that entails. I fully expect the next generation of adventures to be my grandchildren. Now that I think about it this generation of adventurers largely consists of the grandchildren of the legendary adventurer Eric Kron, which I’m sure my dad was expecting to happen eventually, but probably not like this.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.