: 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.
I don't think most good people in any era or world like genocide. They might not stand in they way... but active support of it is probably very rare.
: 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.
Myrkridia= demons. Demons= evil. 'nuff said.
After all, do the Myrkridia even try and be half way nice to people? By any standard?
: 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.
: 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?
: 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.
: 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.
cold and ruthless, yes.
But truth be told, any other plan he could have made would probably not have kept them alive either... 2300 men against a half million+ undead is slightly uneven odds.
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...)
Well, a Ghol who you let live today, probably would try and hack off your head tomorrow.
I would like to end this morality thread because this was not the point of the discussion, however if anyone wants to continue it I cann't stop you.
Seraph
