MisterJB wrote...
Look, pointing out that the elves have it hard does not make what you suggestion any less repugnant.
It's not really a necessity to the reclamation of the kingdom of the Dales, mind you, but I honestly think it's very dangerous to have racist, xenephobic humans near the elves when they see elves as being less than people. The Dalish Boon was no different: what do you think happened to the humans who had homes in the Hinterlands? They had to find another place to live because the ruler of Ferelden gave the land to the Dalish so the clans could now live there.
MisterJB wrote...
Yes, elves are second class citizens in human lands and that needs to change, no one disputes that. But what you are advocating is to do to the humans living in the Dales something that is as bad as anything that was done to the elves. Human familiies have lived there for 40 generations, they have toiled to develop that land and have not harmed anyone.
I don't doubt that relocating the humans elsewhere would be a bad experience for people who built homes there, but please don't compare it to what the elves have been through. It isn't anywhere near as bad as purging men, women, and children to keep them in line, which has been done for centuries since the fall of the Dales. The bodies of all the dead children in the Denerim Alienage tells me how little humanity cares for the plight of the elves, especially when they're willing to wipe them out every time the elves protest their living conditions.
MisterJB wrote...
You want to take all that they worked for away from them because that was elven land 800 years ago.
Loghain and Maric had no problem reclaiming land that was lost a century ago, and the story Leliana tells of her mother reveals that some Orlesians fled Ferelden when the occupation was over. I doubt the centuries of living under Orlesian occupation mean anything to the elves who want to regain control over their kingdom.
MisterJB wrote...
And what about those who refuse to go? They will have to be forced which means beatings, killings, rapes. Little elven boys and girls were killed in the Denerim riots and little human boys and girls will be killed if you try to make an elven-only state out of the Dales.
Elves have been purged for centuries; the massacre of the Denerim Alienage is simply one example of countless times elves have been purged. That's something you're glossing over in order to point out how the humans will be irate over losing land that belonged to the elves, but neglecting that there's no actual alternative to helping out the elves when they are literally powerless in the Andrastian kingdoms.
I'm not willing to wait centuries for the attitudes of humans to change when they haven't changed for over a millennia.
MisterJB wrote...
That is what you're advocating. You can see a bright future for elves in their homeland but only if it's built on the blood of innocents.
Innocents don't need to die for the elves to reclaim their kingdom back from the Orlesian Empire.
MisterJB wrote...
If the elves have enough military strenght and political pull to conquer and mantain the Dales, surely there are other alternatives.
With the Mage-Templar War and the Orlesian civil war, it's the perfect opportunity to reclaim the Dales while the human nations are occupied with other matters.





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