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Full dedication to the Mother class is necessary for the See No Evil spell. Often requiring even sacrificing points from Individual, Woman, Wife, skill trees. There have been recent builds that allow See No Evil without much earlier, but they aren't as widely known.

Because society has necessitated that everyone be equal and androgynous and interchangeable, dedication to a skill tree is no longer possible as skills have to be equally spread out.

This affects Yin much more b/c they are expected to pick up more of the Yang responsibilities while not vice versa. This means that fully specialized Yin subclasses are very rare and society grows in 'evil'.

The See No Evil spell (SNE) can created w/o a full Mother build in one of two paths: the spiritual one and the rational one.

In the rational one the end result is seeing how everything is deterministic. Developments in AI and realizing reality is a simulation create a world view where everything is connected so no evil is seen. (Evil primarily a severing or disconnecting energy)

In the spiritual one, consciousness itself is examined until the realization that the "Witness" within 'me' is the same "Witness" within 'you'. It understands connection less from the tangible but from the intangible. The background instead of the foreground.

There is an adjacent near enemy that can be called the 'religious' one. Religious builds often fail because they never truly cast "See No Evil". Community is so important that they allow infinite forgiveness as long as it serves the community.

E.g. a band of brothers united by a religion will forgive each other for *anything*. They never had a strong Yin source that shows them 'See No Evil' so are forced to forgive increasingly violent acts even as they recognize them as evil.

The near enemy for the rational path is the 'scientific' path. This path never reaches the "See No Evil" b/c it becomes self obsessed with the hierarchy of 'rightness' it creates. Meritocracy is so important that anything is allowed, as long as it's technically 'right'.

Where scientism and religion both go wrong is that they vandalize their sacred values by emphasizing evil as something to be contained and controlled instead of seen through.

Religious communities are often ironically dysfunctional just as scientific communities are often just mountains of incestuous credentialism.

Thought Reference Pointer: Neither Freya nor Baldur were bad or crazy.