You can only be kidding, lordraleigh, I mean, nobody is that blind to not see the difference between "Dark Empire" and "Gangrel Hobbits of Cania Punk Gang", whatever true point you were aiming at, there must've been a better way to demonstrate it. Let's see what the wiktionary says about the word "dark" for a moment though, as to prove you that judging the Dark Empire as evil cause of it's name is wrong.
1. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
The room was too dark for reading.
2. Hidden, secret
"Meantime we shall express our darker purpose" (Shakespeare, King Lear, i 1).
3. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
4. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
My sister's hair is darker than mine.
Her skin grew dark with a suntan.
So, who tells you we aren't simply dark cause we haven't got light? (First meaning, which you should have by default.) We're an Empire with no current feudal (in the sense of land) owning, so we're pretty
in the dark, pretty empty handed of the future we'll have, pretty the darkness before the dawn of our own greatness, though I don't want to bet on darkness breaking images, as to even with greatness, which we already have, we won't stop being the Dark Empire. We don't bound ourselves to an alignment, as others do using their alignment as an argument to justify their actions or the lack of them. We simply act and only do so according to our own values and ideals.
I can't really see what you're panicking about. You're taking us quite serious, aren't you? As you should. But as to why you're actually afraid, is another thing, I can't see what you're trying to defend. But one thing you can rest assure, lovely commoners, those with no sins have nothing to fear.
Edit: On a second thought, you might be discussing the Dragon Council, as to that I'm simply clueless to why you're going off-topic and participating on off-topic, you really want to keep this thread alive, eh? The post I made still stands for the majority of it, though not as a counter-argument to you, lordraleigh. Many people go judging the Dark Empire just cause of it's name, though the DC does have a somewhat ooc name (which is discussable, PS has reptiles, and in medieval times people said those to be dragons, still didn't make them real, no reason why we can't simply go calling big and strong reptiles dragons, as an adaptation of a term to our reality).
