Even a fool can have a good idea

In today’s lesson, Vati, the Forme of Wisdom, wanted to remind something essential.

What had made the strength of the Espers until now was neither magic, nor their intelligence, nor their physical strength.

What had made the Espers capable of such feats was communication and mutual help.

Some new technologies had made dialogue between different opinions particularly difficult.

Vati then reminded that even wise people can be wrong, and that even fools can have a good idea.

Remain humble. Without false modesty.

Indeed, the Espers had, for example, still not realized how much the use of their magic was destroying the environment of their planet.

The Espers of the different elements could no longer truly exchange, as everything had become either all white or all black; accepting that others might be right was no longer a possibility.

Little by little, this had deteriorated already fragile relationships between the five elements, which had not yet realized that they were part of a whole.

You know the rest.

It was the beginning of the War of Chaos…

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