If you want to join Meridian, you will. But, I have no desire to rekindle your world whether you do or do not. It can stay dead. What will be affected is your suffering — it will be as intense as your resistance.

[ He beams, a predatory animal that seems utterly unbothered by where Zenith-aligned want to die. It can be in Kenos, or it can be in the world he will condemn them too. ]

But no, that corruption cannot be resisted. It will take everything you are from you in exchange for power. I have seen it — in fact, one of the Oracles appears to be the result of embracing Zenith entirely. It is just a friendly warning. I would hate a man as vivacious as you to be brainwashed into passivity.