Tales from the Dawn

[Lyth]

No, it's consistent.

You're fixated on the idea that one faction must be 'superior' or 'inferior' to the others in a binary sense. That's why your friends oscillate wildly between looking down on the Sundered as an 'inferior race' while getting angry at the writers whenever the Amaurotines are laid low by their circumstances. No such point is being made here. In fact, if you've played through the Omega questline, the conclusion that they draw is that there's no 'special factor' that defines the survivors which makes them more robust than all the others. Being 'superior' is not an intrinsic quality of anyone, and it's not really worth indulging in that sort of vanity.

That doesn't mean that we can't learn from other people's missteps. Eara seems to relate the fall of the Plenty to ennui. And perhaps that's correct. My own takeaway from the Plenty is that you can't remove emotions from the table, and you have to learn to acknowledge and live with them. Neither reading is intrinsically right or wrong; it's just a mirror that reflects our respective value systems. But you can't then turn around and attribute whatever meaning you derive from their story to the writing team as a prescriptive fable. That's not them, that's you. It simply reflects what's already in your heart.

Either way, there's not much point going in circles with this. If you don't want to get it, then you probably still won't if it's repeated to you.

[SentioftheHoukai]

No, it's consistent.

You're fixated on the idea that one faction must be 'superior' or 'inferior' to the others in a binary sense. That's why your friends oscillate wildly between looking down on the Sundered as an 'inferior race' while getting angry at the writers whenever the Amaurotines are laid low by their circumstances. No such point is being made here. In fact, if you've played through the Omega questline, the conclusion that they draw is that there's no 'special factor' that defines the survivors which makes them more robust than all the others. Being 'superior' is not an intrinsic quality of anyone, and it's not really worth indulging in that sort of vanity.

That doesn't mean that we can't learn from other people's missteps. Eara seems to relate the fall of the Plenty to ennui. And perhaps that's correct. My own takeaway from the Plenty is that you can't remove emotions from the table, and you have to learn to acknowledge and live with them. Neither reading is intrinsically right or wrong; it's just a mirror that reflects our respective value systems. But you can't then turn around and attribute whatever meaning you derive from their story to the writing team as a prescriptive fable. That's not them, that's you. It simply reflects what's already in your heart.

Either way, there's not much point going in circles with this. If you don't want to get it, then you probably still won't if it's repeated to you.

Never have I ever heard so much wishy-washy hypocrisy in a single post. Good job~ All these things can also be applied to what you and yours have said for millennia, and many of these points openly contradict the views you've espoused in the past or willfully misinterpret or twist the meaning of points others have made to use it against them. Truly, you are astonishing my Queen.

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