[Esh]

I often wish I could face Shand personally, though I'm certain the encounter would not go well.  

Apparently, he is obsessively monitoring your progress, trying to turn you from your path.

I often find it hard to believe that there is another human being at the heart of all this.  

The Nin were purged a long time ago, a mass extermination of the indigenous population by the new breed.  We have not yet forgotten that Enyo:Nomad sowed its seeds in the blood of our ancestors.

Anything which possesses great power has a dark past; I know that Nix believes this also.  The only way to counteract it is to hold on to your traditional values: morality, family, love.  Only those pillars will support a viable life.

Religions, movements, commerce: they all come to the same thing: a value system.  You need to live by hard truth, not by mere ideas.

If I were you, I would be careful: Nix and Shand are locked together and they may well bring catastrophe upon each other.  They're both motivated by hatred and revenge.  Just ensure that you're not pulled down with them.