Mercurians

[Dalillama]

Originally Posted by Omegonthesane

An argument about Mercurians has come up in my group. (Again.) This time it's actually important as someone's planning to actually play one.

Assuming no mitigating or aggravating factors whatsoever, does a Mercurian gain dissonance for directly, specifically ordering their Servant to kill a human, without lifting a finger to do it themselves?
In other words, for Mercurians, is commanding subordinates to perform violence equivalent to personally performing violence?

The GM is currently convinced that the Servant is in this case as much a tool as if the Mercurian shot them. I feel this interpretation is directly contrary to what Mercurians are meant to be - and that it also subverts one of the few points of ambiguity, in reducing the degree to which Impudite dissonance is intentionally harsher in some ways than Mercurian dissonance.

The Mercurian does not gain dissonance for that, anymore than they do for calling in the Malakim for the same purpose. Mind, however, that if the Mercurian has a habit of ordering their Servant to do this, their Superior will probably want words anyway.