: Persoanlly, I don't think it would be as simple as that.
: The Bre'Unor roam across the Ermine in warbands of
: about 20, and, assuming that they know the woods at
: least as well as the Fir'bolg do, trying to hunt them
: all down would be virtually impossible. Not to mention
: the fact that the Ermine isn't exactly terra cognita
: as far as the humans are concerned. There's vast
: swathes of the Ermine which probably haven't been
: trodden by either human or Fir'bolg for thousands of
: years, if ever, and who knows what creatures could
: lurk there besides the Bre'unor? And as for using a
: conventional army to hunt down highly skilled
: headhunters on their own ground... have you ever heard
: of Vietnam?
Yes... I'm not sure the Vietnamese are much like the Bre'Unor.
: Secondly, genocide doesn't seem to be that big a deal to
: the Mythers. We don't like the idea of it because our
: governments have taught us that it is a Bad Thing, but
: to the Mythers, it's a way of life.
I don't think the goverment taught us that genocide is a bad thing... I think that we all know that with out any damn politicians.
Connaught
: committed genocide against the Myrkrydia. Connaught
: well nigh committed genocide against the Trow. The
: Trow committed genocide against an unspecified but
: probably shockingly large number of other races. The
: Dwarves and Ghols are awfully keen to commit genocide
: against each other, as are the Fir'bolg and
: Bre'unor... See what I'm getting at? Even most of the
: "good" races are would-be mass murderers,
: and genocide seems to be one of the main ways that a
: great hero really becomes one. People who start
: talking about "restructuring Bre'unor
: society" are liable to end up with a quiverful of
: arrows sticking in their backs.
In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy world: Elves and Drow,Dwarves and Orcs... fantasy has a lot of very vicious hatreds.
Myrkrida do not count. They are monsters.
Good point about the quiverful of arrows in the back for anyone who talking about "restructuring Bre 'unor socity".
: As for noble ol' Alric; is this the same noble ol' Alric
: who willingly sent his entire army of skilled and
: loyal followers to certain death at the gates of
: Rhi'anon that we're talking about?
Yes this is the same Alric who sacrifaced the lives of 2200 men to give him a chance (no certainity, just a chance) of victory.
I don't think that is a sign one way or the other on if he would try to exterminate the Bre 'unor.
Seraph
