Re: Runedarspace-New Sphere

Greetings,

In our last episode, Toby Mekelburg said:
>Dwarven priests are the primary helmsman aboard the ships, and the most of
>the helms used are of a fixed SR so level doesn't really matter. In the
>past, the dwarves were pounded by enemies who had access to wizardly magic
>so one High Thane decided to use magic to get even. And if a non-dwarf is
>just as qualified to do the job, then so be it; let that person do it.

	(!)  Your dwarves sure don't have much racial pride.  Admitting
that there's something humans can do better?  Come on... :)

> I
>should also note that interracial marriages between dwarves and humans are
>frowned upon, but some do happen. However, adoptions of human of half-elven
>orphans by dwarven parents are common; the current High Thane has an
>adopted human daughter and is seeking to marry her off to one of his human
>or half-elven nobles.

	You've been reading *way* to much Salvatore... :)

[snip]
>> BTW, what do you consider to be the "traditional elven
>>view"?  (I really am curious.  I still have a hard time deciding what
>>it is.)  The space elves' biggest difference from "traditional [groundling]
>>elves" is that space elves have gotten fed up with human -- and humanoid
>>-- expansion, and have decided to act instead of waiting for the trouble
>>to go away.  (i.e. Space elves are proactive, and groundling elves are
>>reactive.)
>
>You've hit the nail on the head! My view of groundling elves is that they
>wait around for something to happen("Don't worry about that human wizard
>terrorizing the continent. He'll be dead when we're still in our prime. Let
>the humans deal with this tyrant so long as he doesn't bother us")
>
>Whereas the space elves go out and end a potential threat before it can
>hurt them.

	And the reason that groundling elves got the reputation for being
so reactive is that all the proactive elves left! :)  At least that's my 
current explination for why the IEN is a natural extension of the "typical"
elven view.

-Static

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