Hearing about beings with no frame of reference for morality or empathy is exactly the reason why he has struggled against the idea of being a monster. Of giving into his darker natures. Not even as the swamp thing - simply as a being having seen what Parliaments unchecked - avatars unchecked could do.

"I've known avatars like that." Anton Arcane. He has a deep faith that Abigail would never walk Arcane's path.

"When you have absolute power, absolute authority it is very hard to see why you should bother with humanity. My knowledge stretches...a millennia if I dig deeply enough. Not just to me, but to the green itself...Yet the green..."

He pauses, "There was an Avatar...I'll speak to him again if I can find him in the green and ask if he would have his story told - he was a samurai warrior. When I was first...changed he impressed upon me the importance of this as a calling but to give myself a code of honor and conduct. Loosely translated I think the way he phrased it was "It's a job, not a way of life."

"I try...to hold onto that."

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, "You are wise Jacob Stone, friend of the green. Should godhood happen, since I know better then a lot of people that destiny is a fickle...fickle creature - remember that it's a job. Not a calling. What people don't reckon with is how much absolute power...strips from you."

He pauses and looks a little desperate, "...I'm honestly looking forward to sharing some of this knowledge with another human."

And the parliament, and his green, can sit on a thorn about it.