Who is likely to betray the Shadow in AMoL?

[RandA lThor]

So would you say Fain walks in the Light? And rather the DO only sees in black and white is irrelevant. Many people see in black and white, but that doesn't mean the gray area doesn't exist. lol. Going against the shadow doesn't mean you walk in the light. Call it walking in the Shade. You got walking in the dark, where there is no light, walking in the light, where there is no dark, and walking in the shade, where you can see the light and dark, but aren't really walking in either.

 

Fain is a tricky one. But I wouldn't call him gray, but a different shade of black if there was one such. Afterall even if he has betrayed the DO he still carries the touch of the DO within him.

 

Remember walking in the light is an ideology that has to do with doing the right thing in all aspects of your life as you see it for the greater good. Your outlook on it is similar to the Children of Light's, either you walk in the light, or you're a darkfriend. Nothing in between. Fain is the prime example of this. He is against the DO, wholeheartedly, which is good. But he wants to kill the champion of the Light as well, which makes him evil.

 

Unlike the children I don't equate Light with good. Afterall the Pattern isn't good and the goal of the DO is to unmake the Pattern while the Light side strives to preserve it.

 

I agree, Fain can't be gray because that suggests that part of him is good while part of him is bad. Even though he is helping both sides, he is not gray. Someone might even classify him as a different color like red or something. he is a completely different entity outside all black and white.

[Edynol]

Fain is most feinitely Ggray. Remember he is one with Mordeth now. And in his own twisted way, Mordeth was one of the good guys, he just became so obsessed with defeating the shadow he went to extraordinarily insain methods to accomplish it.

[RandA lThor]

Yes, but now they don't associate with either side at all now. When they combined, they now hate both sides, so a knew color should be made.

[Edynol]

Nope. Just plain grey, with no light or darker shades.

 

Call him chaotic nuetral.

[RandA lThor]

But that suggests that his mindset is exactly half of what the white side thinks and half of what the dark side thinks. He thinks nothing or almost nothing of either side, so he should have a different color. It's like the Joker in Dark Knight. Some people just want to see the world burn.

[Edynol]

I don't think you understand the concept of gray and its different shades. You agree with both sides, you are lawful neutral, a shade gray. If you are against both sides, you are chaotic neutral, another shade of gray. If you just don't care about either way, you are just plain neutral, another shade. Fain's shade of gray would be a little darker than the other two, but still gray non the less.

[Finnssss22]

Fain is not grey, he is black.

Where the DO's evil or blackness if you will, has been around since the beginning of creation. Fain's evil or blackness is a creation of man.

Being "touched" by the DO has nothing to do with the evil that resides in him now. It only provided him a way to survive his joining with Mordeth and become a vessel for that man created evil outside the gates of Aridhol.

[RandA lThor]

but the Do is also black, and they both do not have the same viewpoints. Fain hates the DO and wants him dead. Fain has to be given a different color. He is a completely different entity, like the Finns.