>Dan McCluskey has:
>> to quibble with Trolls not
>> having Prime Purpose. Trolls purpose is to Eat. I think that the thing
>> that makes humans unique in glorantha is that they, of all the races, have
>> no single central drive.
To which Alex opines:
>I submit that the perception of whether a species has a 'central
>drive' or not is highly subjective, and conditioned by the assessor's
>_own_ drives and behaviour. Asking an elf or a troll what she thought
>what motivated human behaviour might be instructive. People are
>a lot more prone to seeing stereotypes or outright determinism in
>groups (or in this case, species) other than their own...
>
I'd venture that this might be the one point elves and dwarves agree on:
Humanity's prime purpose is interference.
They want to strip, clear, and farm every horizontal surface.
Their tampering has clearly screwed up the world machine on more than one
occasion.
You might even say the Trolls don't like them because they won't properly
sit still and be eaten.
And what dragonewt hasn't had a rebirth cycle interrupted or messed with by
some pack of human adventurers for "fun"?