LobselVith8 wrote...
Your line about the Dalish being "segregated" and "racially pure", when their kingdom kept out an empire of conquerors who were trying to create a society under one single religion, and the remanants of that society are currently nomadic because the templars hunt them down and Andrastians are often intolerant towards them as elves and heathens.
That's all quite terrible, but none of it justifies the moral value of either racial segregation or the general Dalish ideology of racial purity. These are just prima facie adhorent ideals, no matter what gloss you're giving them.
Again, it pertained to your line about the Dalish being "segregated" and "racially pure". I don't think having a kingdom where the elves won't be viewed as less than people, and where they can worship their religion freely (since it was outlawed by the Andrastian Chantry) is a bad thing.
It's not a bad thing. It's, in fact, a wonderful thing. But a kingdom where the elves are free to worship whatever religion they wish and are treated as equal citizens has nothing to do with an all-elven kingdom that has an absolute policy to exclude humans on the hypothetical basis that they carry some magical plague, with the actual express long-term goal of the state to create a race of all-mage elven immortals.
See, one goal is laudable and based on social justice. The other is just racist supremacist ideology.
However, we also have examples where the Dalish adopted humans, from the historical Aveline to Feynriel (who is technically human, since the children of humans and elves are human).
Which totally goes against the ideology of racial purity and keeping humans away because of a nonsensical hypothical mortality plague. Again - totally laudable act that Marethari does, but entirely the opposite of everything that I find offensive about what the Dalish believe about themselves, other elves, or humans.
Furthermore, it's possible the elves living in the occupied kingdom of the Dales might have held onto the traditions of their ancestors, and the Dalish are meeting in the Dales now. Regardless, the Dalish are said to be gathering in Halamshiral, for the Arlathvhen.
That's all well and good, but again, there's a difference between what the Dalish want and what the elves want.
I recall Hawke standing idly by while two templars took Bethany away to the Circle of Kirkwall, where he knew mages were being made tranquil illegally. Or not bothering to warn his mother that there's a serial killer on the loose who targets women. The argument that Hawke is protecting his family doesn't carry much weight with me when he does nothing of the kind.
Then the argument that Merrill gives a damn about the elves, when she lives for a decade in the poverty ridden alienage and does nothing as people are beaten and starve around her should undermine any notion that she's taking any action to help the elves.
And her comments about how horrible the conditions in the alienage are, and how she's never known about it, should undermine any notion that she has any idea or expertiese in how bad life really is for the elves.
Communication over fast distances has fundamentally altered our society, which is one of the facets of the Eluvians.
You mean, communicate fast over great distances. And that hasn't done anything for our society. The most impovrished humans on the planet how have access to the telephone. How has that improved their life at all? It's not talking to people far away that matters - it's the economic and social developments that come about as a result of that, and the elves don't have even a remotely functioning society to be able to do that.
And what do you think will happen if word gets out that the Dalish have this amazing technology? Tevinter will try to enslave the lot of them faster than you can say "magisters-failed-to-recreate-what?"
Why do you think that wouldn't be true for the Dalish? Or travelling to the place Morrigan wanted to go to because it would enpower her.
We have absolutely no idea what's beyond the Fade, and Morrigan suggests that the Warden can't even return when going through it. For all we know it's a desolate land of terror and death.
Given that Merrill was the one who studied the lore on the Eluvian, she seemed to think it could benefit the People.
Merrill thinks that it's worth recovering the history of her people, because that's the role of the Keeper. Only in your mind did Merrill intending anything other than what she expressly says, on multiple occassions, she's doing.
Merrill explicitly says that she was trying to help her people, and she's willing to risk her life if the outcome can benefit the Dalish.
Merril says she's recovering their history, and that's how she's helping. Pretending otherwise is just lying.
I wasn't aware I needed to address every single possibility every time I address something that interests me.
It's generally a good idea to think your requests through and actually ask for what you want. Racial choice doesn't mean getting what you want.
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