The Seven Sinners
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Aeleus - Sloth
Aeleus didn't really want anything out of life. All he wanted to do was, well, nothing.
For as long as he could remember, Aeleus had felt no real ambition or passion for anything important. Whether it was for school, sports, or anything that required physical and mental effort, Aeleus just stood by and let it go past him.
He had the mind and the brawn for those activities, but all that he was lacking was a heart. A heart to fill him with the passion that drove men to greatness and glory, that passion that drove men wild over the women swinging their hips on warm, summer days.
Aeleus wanted none of that; he had learned from a young age that if you loved something – or someone – so much, and put everything into it, all you would get is pain and suffering, and lose everything you sacrificed for that love.
So when he filled out the application for guard to the castle, he knew that he had made the perfect career choice. All he had to do was stand here all day, doing nothing, waiting for threats that would never come. Even if they did, Dilan would handle most of the work anyway; Aeleus just had to swing his weapon once or twice, get his share done.
It was his laziness that propelled him to volunteer as an apprentice to Ansem the Wise. If they succeeded in their experiments and did indeed get glory, it would be a free ride for Aeleus; he could just sit back and take some of the credit for the work that the others did. If not, then no pressure; everyone else would be sad and ruined, but Aeleus would just go back doing what he always did: nothing.
His sloth was his life. It was a life he would soon come to regret.