> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 01:32:12PM +0200, Joerg Baumgartner wrote:
>> >> Hrm, good luck with that... The Dragonkill seems to strongly
>> >> imply that it really is about as futile as that...
>> That was about dragonS, not a single dragon at a time (which is all even >> Orlanth ever managed). There were dragons killed in that conflict, too.
> Methinks the 'kill ratio' was, to put it extremely mildly, somewhat
> favorable for the dragons.
Yes. But it didn't mean that the dragons as individuals were invincible in that conflict any more than the Horde...
>> At the risk of getting game-mechanicy, this is probably what the Fear >> Dragons trait is about - perceiving True Dragons as the "resistance is >> futile" entities they are so much of the time.
> There might be an aspect of confusing cause and effect here, don't you
> think?
I don't think so. Dragons as near-transcendent beings are very easy on things like cause and effect. Getting them to behave "rational" means refuting their "Refute Reality". Mysticism...
There is no cause. Just effect.
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