Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post

This is a funny comparison to me, considering how many Thavnairians we see succumb to despair and become Blasphemies - including the one who rallied the survivors, Matsya, who would have turned just like the rest if not for a last-second rescue by an outside party. Are we then to examine the deep flaws of the culture of Thavnair to understand why that mother and her children in Vanaspati all turned? Did Vrtra screw up by giving his people too stable, too good a life, instead of conditioning them better to accept suffering? What "flaws" are we to understand we must learn from when examining a baby despairing and beginning to turn, if not for a one-in-a-billion shot of a nice dragon being there at the right place at the exact right time? Do you see how strange and absurd trying to pin down a vulnerability of despair to concrete factors, to "flaws" to tsk-tsk at, begins to become?
People on the Source are far more susceptible to dynamis than the Ancients ever were, this is why they so easily succumb to it. Even then, Matsya managed to stave it off with mantras and seeing hope completely saved him.