#revansnow

"I remember once I asked Maester Luwin why he wore a chain around his throat. He told me that a maester's collar is made of chain to remind him that he is sworn to serve. I asked why each link was a different metal. A silver chain would look much finer with his grey robes, I said. Maester Luwin laughed. A maester forges his chain with study, he told me. The different metals are each a different kind of learning, gold for the study of money and accounts, silver for healing, iron for warcraft. And he said there were other meanings as well. The collar is supposed to remind a maester of the realm he serves, isn't that so? Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people."

This is both for and about @revansnow

I believethe danger of the dark side (as used by the sith) is the corruption. The reasonthe Jedi Order became extremely unemotional was fear of the corruption feelingslike anger, pain and hate cause. It’s ironic because they became so afraid ofthe these “dark” emotions that they became servants of the dark side.

If removeall the “magic”/Force out of the equations the message still stands. Extremismis bad. If you are ruled only passion, hatred, pain, greedy you will becomecorrupt. If you are ruled by logic, if you remove compassion, love and friendship…you will become corrupt. Balance is the key. Both Sith and Jedi were wrongbecause they were extremists. That’s the whole point of Anakin’s arc as thechosen one and the reason Luke Skywalker was able to save everyone.