conflicting ideologies are? What is it that keeps you from harmony?"

"You have a knack for hard questions," he said with a smile. Then he
paused for a moment to collect his thoughts. At length, he continued,
"The Canitaurs have a profound respect for all that has gone before us,
we honor the traditions of our ancestors and revere their beliefs and
their ideas of truth. The past, in the guise of history, is the key to
the future, we believe, and we hold strictly to the worship of Onan, the
Lord of the Past," at this my attention was perked. He continued, "Our
adherence to the ways of our ancestors is based on the idea that what
has continued throughout the ages has continued because it is right,
that it has remained steadfast because it is based on the immovable
foundations of reality. We follow Onan because he is real, because the
past has existed, and it is certain that it will continue to exist, and
because that existence dictates the operation of the present. Although
we may seem ritualistic and entrenched in tradition to the outside
observer, we enjoy the comforts of knowing that we are on a well tread
path, that we are not alone in time but in company with our forebears.
We are called the Pastites because of our beliefs, because of our
tradition based lives that instill in us a reliance on history, on the
events of the past as a light by which to guide our own actions, as a
road paved by the flesh and blood of our forefathers which leads to
happiness and peace."

Bernibus paused for another moment, as if in contemplation once again,
before he continued, saying, "The Zards are followers of the future, or
Futurists as they are called. They believe that the past is just that,
the past: the ignorant and selfish times of the unenlightened who were
too shrouded by prejudices to understand the world clearly. Instead they
place their faith in the scientific and philosophical ideas of the day,