Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
It's one of those things that's fascist coded, but with the information we got in SHB we learn that he was indeed being literal. It just sounds like dictatorial madness at the time, because it was supposed to, sort of like a, "Is the villain actually a villain sleight of hand maneuver?"

I saw it for what it was at the time, because it's a magical world and they don't insert that stuff just for the sake of it, usually.
Oh I completely understood/saw the fascist coding/subtext for his spiel too. I just was also wondering if from the Watsonian level of text, he meant it literally or metaphorically/politically?

And it seems you do think Varis was being literal though?
Do you believe Varis’ presumption was correct though? That if all the rejoinings had been allowed to occur, would all the (native) sapient races in The Source be magically turned into the same physiological race/species?