Re: Bows and Aldryami

From: bethexton <bethexton_at_...>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 15:11:17 -0000

There are many ways to learn something from somebody. For example, in the US there was a member of one of the native tribes (Navajo maybe? I don't recall properly) who saw how the settlers used books and read and wrote. Although he didn't know how to read English, he saw the usefulness of this, so invented a (apparently very elegant) 90 character syllabary (a syllabary describes the common syllables of a language, as opposed to an alphabet which describes the common sounds) for his language, which became fairly widely used by his people.

In a similar manner, the Rathori had typical hunting bows, designed for shooting ducks from blinds at twenty paces and not really for killing large creatures like humans. When the befriended the elves they saw the potential of more powerful bows. Humans are nothing if not inventive, primitive humans no less so than any others. Given an example of the potential of powerful bows, and the ability to study these effective bows, it is entirely reasonable that Rathori figured out how to make long bows through a method entirely different from that used by the elves.

--Bryan

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