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<blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 819952" data-attributes="member: 6929"><p>OK, so we've got a massive battle in Ausel. Divine wrath and interplanar empires clash.</p><p></p><p>Yet this doesn't matter to the formian empire. They've lost a queen. Big deal, they've got thousands on each of their worlds. (I'm guessing queens aren't unique here - if they are, no formian empire could ever grow that huge.) However, they did come to an interesting conclusion when the young queen reported back after it was all over.</p><p></p><p>These 'humans' are interesting creatures - they seem chaotic, and they have no central mind like the formians. Yet when attacked, they adapted and banded together, forming surprising strength.</p><p></p><p>Sure, the formians could planeshift in ten thousand fortresses and forcibly assimilate everything in sight. But do they want to? The humans are no threat to their mighty empire. In fact, the formian philosophy is such that they see two outcomes:</p><p></p><p>First, these bipeds could squabble amongst themselves endlessly for the next ten thousand years, in which case they're obviously chaotic and in need of enlightenment. (Ten thousand years is long enough for the formians to wait, I'm sure. They've probably done this before.)</p><p></p><p>Or, they might evolve a society again, one which co-operates and has infrastructure. This is obviously Law coming to the surface, and this is good. If humanity evolves a coherent civilisation in ten thousand years, the formians will be pleased and treat them as equals.</p><p></p><p>In the meantime, the formians will maintain a nominal presence on Ausel and send wandering anthropologists to the far corners of the globe to check out on the state of civilisation. Most rural communities, therefore, can expect to see a formian expedition once every decade; major urban centers every day. These anthropologists are generally not to interfere with intraplanar affairs; a war between kingdoms is out of bounds, but if slaadi invade the formians will co-operate with humans to stop them, and if bandits waylay the formians they will be allowed to fight back.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, monks in distant realms begin to raise dragon whelps... a hobgoblin warlord tries to hold Stempa together... and the rest of the Heaven Region is pretty much leaderless.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and the collapse of the Auselen armies inadvertently released huge numbers of horrible monsters into the world, Things Man Was Not Meant To Pet and all that. I figure they'll spread across the world given five hundred years and no major water barriers. (Aquatic and aerial monsters the exception.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="s/LaSH, post: 819952, member: 6929"] OK, so we've got a massive battle in Ausel. Divine wrath and interplanar empires clash. Yet this doesn't matter to the formian empire. They've lost a queen. Big deal, they've got thousands on each of their worlds. (I'm guessing queens aren't unique here - if they are, no formian empire could ever grow that huge.) However, they did come to an interesting conclusion when the young queen reported back after it was all over. These 'humans' are interesting creatures - they seem chaotic, and they have no central mind like the formians. Yet when attacked, they adapted and banded together, forming surprising strength. Sure, the formians could planeshift in ten thousand fortresses and forcibly assimilate everything in sight. But do they want to? The humans are no threat to their mighty empire. In fact, the formian philosophy is such that they see two outcomes: First, these bipeds could squabble amongst themselves endlessly for the next ten thousand years, in which case they're obviously chaotic and in need of enlightenment. (Ten thousand years is long enough for the formians to wait, I'm sure. They've probably done this before.) Or, they might evolve a society again, one which co-operates and has infrastructure. This is obviously Law coming to the surface, and this is good. If humanity evolves a coherent civilisation in ten thousand years, the formians will be pleased and treat them as equals. In the meantime, the formians will maintain a nominal presence on Ausel and send wandering anthropologists to the far corners of the globe to check out on the state of civilisation. Most rural communities, therefore, can expect to see a formian expedition once every decade; major urban centers every day. These anthropologists are generally not to interfere with intraplanar affairs; a war between kingdoms is out of bounds, but if slaadi invade the formians will co-operate with humans to stop them, and if bandits waylay the formians they will be allowed to fight back. Meanwhile, monks in distant realms begin to raise dragon whelps... a hobgoblin warlord tries to hold Stempa together... and the rest of the Heaven Region is pretty much leaderless. Oh, and the collapse of the Auselen armies inadvertently released huge numbers of horrible monsters into the world, Things Man Was Not Meant To Pet and all that. I figure they'll spread across the world given five hundred years and no major water barriers. (Aquatic and aerial monsters the exception.) [/QUOTE]
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