SCSF: There you are again! I was almost getting worried.
Avarinheim must be hidden inside of a portal, then. Surely ten steps isn't enough to completely change your surroundings. Also, it's not a very protected place, is it, if people can just walk right in. I guess the whole "forests are spooky and will eat you" belief keeps most would-be enemies away, but you'd think there would be some defenses in place.
Well, a "pace" is also the measure for about 95 centimetres, so this would equal 9.5 metres, which is considerably more reasonable. The confusion is entirely understandable, though.
As of defenses... I think I can actually believe this, since the Seneschal is not interested in sending a force and the Smyrtonites seem willing to live and let be. Sure, some people would get in from time to time, but the Avarinheim is huge and they should not form much of a threat. In fact, I wonder if Acharites getting adopted into Avar clans has not actually happened before, given Barsarbe's rather casual attitude toward Azhure's possible adoption (GoldFeather does not count, since, as her name shows, she was adopted by the Icarii rather than the Avar).
How cool would it be if they were like the pacific northwest's redwood forests? I know it probably isn't, but the visual is awesome. Just a spread of trees so big that a bunch of people clasping hands can't even reach all the way around it.
That would certainly be a nice biome to see!
Especially when you consider that ploughing land is usually done to plant crops; they're doing this to live. Meanwhile, the Avar are out here murdering helpless bunnies and killing their children because they're stupid because of some ridiculous tradition that seems to be specifically designed to kill many of the participants. It's a wonder they're not extinct by their own hands by now. I don't know for sure if that qualifies as hypocrisy, but it's certainly something!
It is a sign, at least, of how very poorly the Avar are constructed. Very little about them makes sense, and they are actively killing themselves because... tradition, I guess? That does not make them a good contrast to the Acharites, who are supposed to get rid of their traditions!
Clearly most of her brain cells have taken a vacation during the writing of this series.
I think she cared about getting to what she wanted above all, and that does not lend itself to critical thought well.
What an oddly specific soapbox to choose. Like, I absolutely agree that nature is essential to, you know, staying alive, but that's not even what she's saying here. She's saying that trees are the most important thing ever, above all else. And I'm a person who loves forests, so if this was an anti-deforestation thing, I could understand it completely. But just trees? Why are they more important than everything else?
Hmmm, this will be just my guessing, but it might be that forests are often chosen as a symbol for environmentalism (maybe because they are so present, so to say), and so they seem more important, and hence more valuable. Both of these steps are incorrect, of course, but they are easy to make, so it might just be that?
So, wait. Does this mean that all the Avarii are just hiding behind trees and in bushes and stuff? I can understand why they would do that, if they think a sworn enemy had just wandered into their home, but the visual I'm getting of heads popping up from inside flowerpots and out of rainspouts and from under rocks (again, a la Loony Toons) is just making me laugh.
Yes, I presume that they were hiding here in case Axis came in, but it is a bit silly as a visual.
Okay, a tiny fraction of a point for Douglass here. I honestly expected her to say that Azhure was more afraid of the guy just because he's a guy. But no, she's very logically more afraid of the one who seems to be the bigger threat. I still don't like you, Douglass, but you got this one right.
Indeed... though given what will apparently happen to Barsarbe later on, I have to wonder if this is connected to that.
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SCSF: There you are again! I was almost getting worried.
Avarinheim must be hidden inside of a portal, then. Surely ten steps isn't enough to completely change your surroundings. Also, it's not a very protected place, is it, if people can just walk right in. I guess the whole "forests are spooky and will eat you" belief keeps most would-be enemies away, but you'd think there would be some defenses in place.
Well, a "pace" is also the measure for about 95 centimetres, so this would equal 9.5 metres, which is considerably more reasonable. The confusion is entirely understandable, though.
As of defenses... I think I can actually believe this, since the Seneschal is not interested in sending a force and the Smyrtonites seem willing to live and let be. Sure, some people would get in from time to time, but the Avarinheim is huge and they should not form much of a threat. In fact, I wonder if Acharites getting adopted into Avar clans has not actually happened before, given Barsarbe's rather casual attitude toward Azhure's possible adoption (GoldFeather does not count, since, as her name shows, she was adopted by the Icarii rather than the Avar).
How cool would it be if they were like the pacific northwest's redwood forests? I know it probably isn't, but the visual is awesome. Just a spread of trees so big that a bunch of people clasping hands can't even reach all the way around it.
That would certainly be a nice biome to see!
Especially when you consider that ploughing land is usually done to plant crops; they're doing this to live. Meanwhile, the Avar are out here murdering helpless bunnies and killing their children because they're stupid because of some ridiculous tradition that seems to be specifically designed to kill many of the participants. It's a wonder they're not extinct by their own hands by now. I don't know for sure if that qualifies as hypocrisy, but it's certainly something!
It is a sign, at least, of how very poorly the Avar are constructed. Very little about them makes sense, and they are actively killing themselves because... tradition, I guess? That does not make them a good contrast to the Acharites, who are supposed to get rid of their traditions!
Clearly most of her brain cells have taken a vacation during the writing of this series.
I think she cared about getting to what she wanted above all, and that does not lend itself to critical thought well.
What an oddly specific soapbox to choose. Like, I absolutely agree that nature is essential to, you know, staying alive, but that's not even what she's saying here. She's saying that trees are the most important thing ever, above all else. And I'm a person who loves forests, so if this was an anti-deforestation thing, I could understand it completely. But just trees? Why are they more important than everything else?
Hmmm, this will be just my guessing, but it might be that forests are often chosen as a symbol for environmentalism (maybe because they are so present, so to say), and so they seem more important, and hence more valuable. Both of these steps are incorrect, of course, but they are easy to make, so it might just be that?
So, wait. Does this mean that all the Avarii are just hiding behind trees and in bushes and stuff? I can understand why they would do that, if they think a sworn enemy had just wandered into their home, but the visual I'm getting of heads popping up from inside flowerpots and out of rainspouts and from under rocks (again, a la Loony Toons) is just making me laugh.
Yes, I presume that they were hiding here in case Axis came in, but it is a bit silly as a visual.
Okay, a tiny fraction of a point for Douglass here. I honestly expected her to say that Azhure was more afraid of the guy just because he's a guy. But no, she's very logically more afraid of the one who seems to be the bigger threat. I still don't like you, Douglass, but you got this one right.
Indeed... though given what will apparently happen to Barsarbe later on, I have to wonder if this is connected to that.