Talk:White Whistle/@comment-31469832-20180112050842/@comment-71.168.131.242-20190420003406

More like you can't be an insufferable asshole who hates everyone. Other people can hate you and you can still be a White Whistle.

If you meant "be a white whistle..." as the artifact, not the delving title, then you're correct. You need somebody who wants to travel to the ends of the Earth with you (beyond the 6th layer) to be a White Whistle Delver. Someone who is not fully devoted to that Delver can not become a White Whistle.

This means Bondrewd must have a great deal of love and devotion for either himself or for his research, otherwise he could not have become his own White Whistle. Bondrewd is like the sociopathic equivalent of a saint! He has no malicious intent, and yet he does not care for the suffering of those he sacrifices for his goal. Only his goal for figuring out the nature of the Abyss and its secrets is what drives him and makes these sacrifices worthwhile. He has the devotion of a mad scientist!