Let's play a game: Save the Ancients!

[Lunaxia]

Ah, my bad. Sanna is right about the LB, it's been a while since I did Trusts and I must have got the mechanic confused with Squadrons or Explorer mode.

welp

I understand the argument perfectly well, and funnily enough I have a feeling that you do too.

The assumption underpinning the majority of the arguments initially put forward with absolutely no bad faith or bias whatsoever makes use of that really fun, super swell and not at all concerning belief the Ancients were doomed to die anyway, so genuinely "saving" them is pointless/ impossible and handwaving their demise, weirdly justified. I challenged the broader reasoning behind the claim (i.e. someone else would have done it if not Hermes, they were incapable of defending or saving themselves, the Ancients were all inherently dangerous and possessed apocalyptic powers that were effectively a ticking timebomb, etc. etc.) as well as the fundamental premise behind this train of thought that claims mortals are any safer or less prone to wiping themselves out. This then devolved into, amongst other things, calling the overarching ability of the Convocation into question, with Hythlodaeus' potential recruitment being cited as a reason why they wouldn't have actually been sufficiently powerful enough to deal with any outside threats because he's supposedly a bit of a limp noodle in a fight.

It gets a little chaotic when multiple people respond with their own litany of reasons why the Ancients wouldn't have worked and ergo merited their total destruction, but that's inevitably how these discussions go.

And for the record, playing dumb and attempting to attack my credibility with strawman fallacies because you've run out of things to say is disappointing, even if I shouldn't be surprised. I take that as it being safe to say we're effectively done here.

whether a society of hedonistic and whimsical godlings could be stably governed by a small circle of nepotistic oligarchs.

This is genuinely hilarious.

Ah, but no, clearly there isn't any prejudice against them in these forums at all.