: Actually, we don't like it because it's horrific, and so
: neither would the Mythers - or they wouldn't care
: about "investigating reports of
: grave-robbing," (M2), which is far less worse.
The reason why the Mythers are so concerned about grave robbing is that grave robbing means corpses in unknown hands. And corpses in unknown hands means the potential of legions of undead: and almost everyone in the human towns at that time would have had several relatives killed in the war against Balor, only 60 years ago. It's no so much that the Myther's don't like genocide: they don't like genocide against them.
: They were Devils, Nightmares, and monstrosities not of
: tbis world. They had EATEN humanity to near-extiction
: - they were savage animal monsters. They are PURE
: EVIL, and so deserved to be exterminated, just like
: when playing Doom nobody minds about wiping out the
: forces of Hell, but are pretty pissed that humanity's
: being munched on.
Have you ever read "Bill the Galactic Hero" by Harry Harrison? For the first half of the book, the alien adversaries, the Chingers, a race of four armed lizards, are depicted as basically that. Halfway through the book you find out that they're actually six inches tall, have a sardonic sense of humour, and are desperately trying to protect their worlds from human expansion. I'm not saying that's the case for the Myrkrydia, I'm just saying that there's two sides to every story: which is almost certainly true in the case of the Ghols. "Ender's Game" is good too if you like that sort of thing.
: Similar with bre'Unor and fir'Bolg, though since bre'Unor
: are human if they changed their ways they might make
: peace, or the fir'Bolg would miore likely take their
: women and children and slves and intergrate, albeit
: forecfully. :(
GURPS tells us that no Bre'unor women or children have ever been found, adding to the suggestion that they are human or Fir'bolg renegades. Seriously, though, the Bre'unor are headhunters, cultists and worshippers of the Dark Gods. The Fir'bolg hate them about as much as humans hate necromancers, and I really doubt any kind of happy medium could be reached. Oh, incidentally, GURPS tells us that their skull masks do not come off, and may have been fused on in some kind of arcane ritual. And seeing someone walking around with a skull fused to their face would do rather more than raise a few eyebrows in human or Fir'bolg circles.
: Um...not really...you mean people like Balor, Moagim,
: Soulblighter and the Watcher, then?
To the best of my knowledge, neither Moagim, Soulblighter of the Watcher ever totally wiped out a race. And Balor only did so while he was Connaught. Ironic, huh?
: Probably, until they defeat them.
Uh... actually, I was talking about Fir'bolg arrows. Well, sure, if you want a three-way war, that's one way to go about it, but I don't think that's quite what you had in mind.
: There was no other way to defeat Balor, and they all knew
: it. They all went of their own free will, and so would
: he if he was in their position. There was simply no
: ther way to end the War - Balor was too strong, and
: Alric barely defeated him.
Exactly: Alric's decision may not have been wrong in the circumstances, but it was cirtainly extremely cold and ruthless. Alric believed he had no alternative but to sacrifice his loyal followers. Similarly, almost any Dwarf or Fir'bolg would leap at the chance to annihilate the Ghols or Bre'unor, since, in their eyes, the alternatives would be inconcievable. From the eyes of a typical Dwarf, if you let a Ghol live today, he'll be trying to hack your head off tomorrow, or, at the very least, his whelps or grandwhelps will (and Ghols probably breed alarmingly fast...)
