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and its illuminated replica. He prayed that ignorant robbers would have no use for the latter; for, indeed, among
the bandits of the wayside were sometimes kindly thieves who took only what was of value to them, and
permitted their victim to retain his life,ro zeny, carcass, and personal effects. Others were less considerate.
As a precaution, Brother Francis wore a black patch over his right eye. The peasants were a superstitious lot
and could often be routed by even a hint of the evil eye. Thus armed and equipped, he set out to obey the
summons of the Sacerdos Magnus, that Most Holy Lord and Ruler, Leo Pappas XXI.
Nearly two months after leaving the abbey, the monk met his robber on a heavily wooded mountain trail, far
from any human settlement except the Valley of the Misborn, which lay a few miles beyond a peak to the west,
where, leperlike, a colony of the genetically monstrous lived in seclusion from the world. There were some such
colonies which were supervised by hospitalers of Holy Church, but the Valley of the Misborn was not among
them. Sports who had escaped death at the hands of the forest tribes had congregated there several centuries ago.
Their ranks were continually replenished by warped and crawling things that sought refuge from the world, but
some among them were fertile and gave birth. Often such children inherited the monstrosity of the parent stock.
Often they were born dead or never reached maturity. But occasionally the monstrous trait was recessive, and an
apparently normal child resulted from the union of sports. Sometimes,cheap ragnarok zeny, however, the superficially “normal”
offspring were blighted by some invisible deformity of heart or mind that bereft them, seemingly, of the essence
of humanity while leaving them its appearances. Even within the Church, some had dared espouse the view that
such creatures truly had been deprived of the Dei imago from conception, that their souls were but animal souls,
that they might with impunity under the Natural Law be destroyed as animal and not Man, that God had visited
animal issue upon the species as a punishment for the sins that had nearly destroyed humankind. Few theologians
whose belief in Hell had never failed them would deprive their God of recourse to any form of temporal
punishment, but for men to take it upon themselves to judge any creature born of woman to be lacking in the
divine image was to usurp the privilege of Heaven. Even the idiot which seems less gifted than a dog, or a pig, or
a goat, shall, if born of woman, be called an immortal soul. thundered the magisterium, and thundered it again
and again. After several such pronouncements, aimed at curbing infanticide, had issued from New Borne, the
luckless misborn had come to be called the “Pope’s nephews,” or the “Pope’s children,” by some.
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“Let that which is born alive of human parents be suffered to live,” the previous Leo had said, “in
accordance with both the Natural Law and the Divine Law of Love; let it be cherished as Child and nurtured,
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that among the Natural Rights of Man the right to parental assistance in an attempt to survive is precedent to all
other rights, and may not be modified legitimately by Society or State except insofar as Princes are empowered
to implement that right. Not even the beasts of the Earth act otherwise.”
The robber that accosted Brother Francis was not in any obvious way one of the malformed, but that he