<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=35227.msg2041691#msg2041691">Quote from: resonanteve on 13-07-2009, 22:08:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">It's all about motivation and how you word it. The end result can look the same, but the internal motivation behind it can be very different based on their underlying compassion and conviction. Compassion can force the hand where conviction would fail because of the overriding understanding of suffering, for example.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Only if you are talking about Abyssal Virtues :P.<br/>Seriously, of course they can behave similarly, under some circumstances - I'm asking in the OOC because I didn't see such circumstances,a dn I grew curious ;).<br/>The overriding understanding of suffering is governed by Compassion, and if the PC kills to protect others - yes, Compassion<em>might</em>be driving him. Or he might be protesting non-violently.<br/>Conviction<em>will</em>force the hand, though, because it does what it has to, consequences be damned. It's always you better show the high-Conviction character the right target, because it will be really hard to explain to him it was all a mistake... ;D