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Master Eckhardt is wondrous, enthralling, the most powerful man in history. There are none others who could measure up to him in either might or intelligence, or the awesome scope of his vision, his most devout follower has no doubts in his heart about that. And Master Eckhardt has promised him to share this power, he promised him immortality! Oh, how divinely generous! As understanding of his followers’ desires as he is merciless to his enemies, those heathens not worthy of laying their eyes on him. Master Eckhardt will rule this world as he has proclaimed, for Master Eckhardt is infallible.
Master Eckhardt is a powerful, decisive man and an admirable leader. He carries his goals clear in his mind and he is willing and capable of following through, just as he is able to clearly instruct his followers. A brilliant, unparalleled strategist, both through his intellect and many decades of experience, Master Eckhardt is able to both lead a unit as well as operate alone. His aim to rule the whole of humanity and more is both laudable and necessary. And as he has promised, his followers will gain part of that power – a commander sharing his advantageous position with his troops, as any commander worth following would.
Master Eckhardt is a well-educated, extremely intelligent and unimaginably powerful man. Watching him work is both an invaluable privilege and utter terror, a learning experience like none other could ever be. He demands much of his followers only because he promises much in return, a fair exchange that no-one could ever refuse. He opens his fellow scholars’ world to new, previously unthinkable possibilities and makes mockery of what most of the scientific community would consider the edges of current human understanding. His work is great, unencumbered by morals or conscience, and therefore he is capable of absolutely anything.
Eckhardt is a foolish human with an inflated ego and peculiar blindness to those he considers no threat to himself. A fool, but a tremendously useful one for the time being. More powerful than most men, yet still a one-eyed king among the blind. He gathers power and gathers followers through the showmanship of this power, already planning to dispose of them when their usefulness has run out, leading them on with no suspicions that he too could be merely a puppet. Eckhardt imagines himself the future ruler of the world, a position he would attain through the control of his betters, those with infinitely more power.
A megalomaniacal man if he has ever seen one… then again, maybe it takes one to know one.