Specially dedicated to brilliant Schneizel el Britannia
Trick of the Light
Nobody should accuse light of falsehood, when there're actually only people's eyes and benighted deduction to blame. Manipulation, as it is, as he succeeded in discovering once, turned to be a simple thing and quite complex art. Giving people proper impressions. Those suitable illusions everyone craved for and believed. The second prince was a player of the highest rank and enormous scope. And he used his opportunities in the best way forecast by the latent "machivellistic" mind. Schneizel el Britannia always had a trump card up his long sleeve conjured out of human expectations and intentions, a surprise technique combined with British accuracy and punctuality. Just look at his fine white figure and there he stood in the shiny aura: an innate politician and stainless diplomat. But all these roles or parts of him are just an appropriate paradigm of realizing great ambitions. And the motives, as the true politics demands, should remain obscure till the final moment. The prince obeyed the rules of the game: his tactics, perhaps, exquisite, but the strategy remained conservative and snobbish. World domination and social reorganization. Schneizel aspired after Enlightenment for the world which wallowed in the darkness and irrationality. It needed constraints and it would yield only and only to the multihead Force. But the horrible mistake was that he didn't understand that the illumination outside wasn't worth without the inner light… No matter the light he intended to give all, they wouldn't see it, and the enlightener wouldn't know either that he, himself, was a fabricated trick of the light, nothing more, nothing less. And so Schneizel got tricked by posing too much in front of the lamps.
