Tales from the Dawn

[Veloran]

Now, why would a paradiscal civilization need mercenaries unless they were fighting wars? (this also brings me to another question as to why Emet and Hythlodaeus were clearly trained in combat - what purpose for fighting would they need?

I can no more disprove your speculation than you can prove it. However,

So really all Venat did was force the blinders off.

past Astral Eras had automata doing most of the fighting in wars like golems in the War of the Magi, or mammets like the Onion Knights in Allag, so the Ancients doing the same thing

by the logic you use to theorize such a situation, you're inadvertently making the argument that actually the blinders aren't off and sundered people are openly guilty of the same things you're surmising about the Ancients.

[Lauront]

I can no more disprove your speculation than you can prove it. However,



by the logic you use to theorize such a situation, you're inadvertently making the argument that actually the blinders aren't off and sundered people are openly guilty of the same things you're surmising about the Ancients.

It's a good thing those Rejoinings were there to keep things fresh by forcing a hard civilisational reset. Wouldn't want things to stagnate, after all. Life is getting too comfortable. If only every realm had a Zenos to keep it from becoming complacent and enthusiastically forge ahead with gusto.