evilauthor wrote:PeterZ wrote:So, if the Inquisitor actually serves Clyntahn, he dies. The best example is the Inquisitor that refused to kill the Charisian POWs on the ship Sir Dunkin captured. That Inquisitor was not a sadist but was honestly serving Clyntahn. This compared to the sadist bastard on the other ship.
If that's your "best" example, you need to find a better one. The Charisians didn't kill the Good Inquisitor; he killed himself under the assumption that the Charisians were going to kill him anyway.
There's every possibility that the Good Inquisitor might have been spared, especially with Dunkin getting intel directly from Owl at this point.
IOW, this incident can't be used as an example of Charisians being indiscriminate in killing Inquisitors.
Textev doesn't tell us whether the Good Inquisitor is dead or not. It certainly doesn't say that he definitely committed suicide or was executed. He is, according to Sir Dunkyn's letter, 'no longer available' to be returned.
I remember thinking at the time that it was an odd euphemism and wondering if he was 'no longer available' to Sir Dunkyn because he was on a ship to Charis.
Possibly the Good Inquisitor is simply in a Schroedinger's Character state of being neither dead or alive, but retained for possible future use.