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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
Yes, but this reasoning is more complicated than just thinking, “Hey, these creatures might be sentient
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Not much complicated, if we take into account that just earlier elves have been
absolutely sure they are the only incarnates.
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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
Having survivors implies a larger group of Elves
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Not necessarily. As the issue of elves eating petty-dwarves must have been merely a joke on your part, I don’t expect you believe petty-dwarves were eating slain elves as well? Hypothetical ‘lone elf’ might have been sorely wounded, but knowing how hardy elves are, one might have lived to tell the tale.
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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
Didn’t I say that?
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Nope. Your words, exact:
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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
notice I said "build" and not "use" to prevent somebody tossing the chimpanzees at me
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I’ve tossed at you tool-
building chimp, not tool-
using one
But, as a whole, one way or another we are bound to speculate – no data to build upon. Arguments I’ve presented you with were no intended to rule out even the possibility of things as you reason them, I’ve just tried to illustrate that quite different development of events might have taken place as well. Plausibility is in the eye of the beholder here. I tend to hold that killing of petty-dwarves was just regrettable accident. Arguments to my rescue seem plausible to me. I’m content. Hence:
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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
This should have been telling to the Elves
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Seems tiny bit pointless. We do not even know what was the ‘telling’ which finally stopped the hunting. It might have been ‘greater organization’ as you describe it, it might have been fear to offend 'real' dwarves more, it might have been lone elf survivor realizing (after not being eaten) that these must have been incarnates, if they haven’t eaten him raw, and just dined nearby on soup made of roots, and haven’t made a soup out of
him either. (Or even maybe ‘lone elf’ saw petty-dwarves pickling ‘lone elf #2’ in the pot and than realization dawned on him
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If you imply that elves should be blamed for the fact itself – well, probably they should. On the other hand, they’ve stopped of their own accord, and [as I believe] quite soon – feat quite commendable.
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That was pretty much my impression
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m-m-m... than
what are we arguing about?
