(Scars do not appear to be cause of death –shock ... - Bad Request

for twisting the smallest of promises or hints of obligation against others,
after all, "I was told that you would know of my mortality. It has been stolen
from me."
Forked-Tongue scrutinized me closely for the first time. "Memories run like
hollow canyons through my mind, almost-human. Many creatures have I
met in an immortal's time... though I do not believe you were among them,"
he shrugged, "You all look alike to me... and I think I would have
remembered the scarred flesh of your body... it is much like the breathing
paintings that bedeck Bel's gallery of skins in Baator, except with less grace
and more passion in the scar strokes."
I stepped back when he reached a clawed hand out, but he pressed forward,
tracing those yellowed talons across my puckered flesh, "The violence is
great, nearing acceptable levels, but the scars are applied with almost
tanar'ric crudity, without any care for maximizing the pain of the recipient. A
baatezu artist would be much more devoted to the following the paths of
pain across the body. Some of these wounds look to be clean kills, others
look as if a blind butcher were carving up human steaks."
He scoffed, as if I'd offended his aesthetic sensibilities. "Feh. Human art
makes me ill sometimes. Such potential, wasted."
Grace sounded bemused. "Is Advocate Infernus Forked-Tongue implying
that we tanar'ri are a crude people?"
"Feh! To say that tanar'ri are crude is to insult crudity. Any lesser race that
revels in chaos, allows itself to be pulled and drowned in its stagnant tides,
and calls it 'evil' are not a race at all. They are beasts."
"Surely you simply object to the implementation of evil, rather than the
degree. Many among the tanar'ri would claim that the closer one is to the
primal nature of evil, the more true they are to the idea.”
"Feh and double feh! The tanar'ri beasts want to strip law and order from
the face of evil! Inexcusable! Intolerable! I cannot --"
"From a baatezu point of view, it may indeed seem intolerable," Grace
began to counter, "However... Advocate, many tanar'ri philosophers would
argue that the baatezu are to be no less excused for excising passion from
violence, excising passion from the very essence of evil. The baatezu would
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