Postby Viviyana » Wed Oct 05, 2016 1:22 pm
It never seems to fail that every time we start to get a good debate on ideas going, someone comes along to try and bring it down to the level of personal attacks. I really had thought you more skilled than that, Kade. Disappointing. They say a person resorts to personal attacks when they run out of the ability to defend their position. I am sure you can prove that that is not the case in this instance, should you wish.
For as long as we can remember we have had the demon lord and his minions to fight against. We know for a fact that the demons raided the gremlin's tree along with our towns. Again, Branishor's research failed to establish any connection between the Sea Dwellers and the Demons. And, in fact, I have yet to see the Dwellers fighting hand and hand with the demons. Unless Kairiel has information that hasn't been shared with the rest of us, we do not know what their dealings are with death or the dead, simply speculation and conjecture.
It has been many many cycles since the Dwellers last attacked, and again, this does not mean they are complacent. But if there was ever a time to try and stave off a coming war, this is it. They are no mindless creatures, they have a semi-organized fighting force. They study and learn our armor, weapons, and weaknesses. We will have to deal with them one way or another. With their strength and skills they have a possibility of becoming a very real and dangerous threat to us.
The gremlins are, in my observations, very much a neutral force. They are out for their survival. That does not mean that this must always be true. They are a people that have spent the last years of their existence at the bottom of the ladder of racial castes why not attempt to establish a relationship? Why not see if such is possible? They aided us once, why not see if such is possible again?
A cycle ago we accomplished something that was thought impossible. We killed Balthazar. It is easy to go about our turns and not think of the overall implications his death, and the lifting of that oppression brings. But to do so is folly. If we can assume they were under the same constriction of time and resources that we were, and that those resources are now freed, then both the Gremlins and Dwellers (as well as the other races of Valorn) will need addressed.
This debate is about a differing of opinion in how two of those races should be handled. Are we to eagerly jump from one great and everlasting war to the next, without even attempting peace? Shall we send more and more people against the gremlins to compensate for the demons that no longer slaughter them along side us? To cull them out? Or shall we try, in this one sliver of time before this new world of our's ways are set, to lessen hostilities and try for more peaceful relationships?