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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tilla the Hun (work)" data-source="post: 1575522" data-attributes="member: 14214">Did you *really* want to ask that question?  I shudder to think what, by comparison, would make it 'saccharine'...  Chaotic Evil demi-gods might even relish hearing that question answered...End hijackAnyway - I think that Intelligence should be dominant trait.  I further think that Intelligence in the natural hierarchy of predator vs prey could lead to some fundamental shifts that would tend to accelerate the reproduction of such.In other words...I've got a home brewed world, Umaria, and a kingdom Lammoria on a given continent.  On this coninent, I have a druidic organization loosely bound together by a set of beliefs, that actively oppose the older, traditional, conservative druidic organizations that exist.  The cult is called, by lay peoples, the Cult of the Mad Cow.  The cult calls themselves the Divine Utterers of Continuity.  You can see where the nickname comes from...  To make a long story short - their reasoning, based on their precepts, are as follows:  1) All creatures have souls, 2) Animals are sacred, 3) There is a finite number of souls in the world. 4) Sentient creatures that die have their soul go to a new sentient creature of the same type (people, generally).  5) Reincarnating dead people as animals result in intelligent animals.  6) Therefore dead people MUST be reincarnated as animals.  No, their relatives can't decide this for them, it'll just have to happen.Now they have an additional line of reasoning - awaken non-intelligent animals.I can just see these guys awakening a stallion of a wild herd, a few male fish in the sea, and even the bull in the farmers stable.  Although they may be surpised in the latter when the bull decides he has a good life right where he is <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.After a few hundred years (2-3 hundred) or 10-20 generations, the intelligent animals have a decided survival edge over normal animals - they can reason their way past predator issues and such.Suddenly the ecology of the world is turned upside down when the horses start hunting wolf packs, when goat herds start hunting mountain lions.  After all, of course the Mad Cows targeted DOMESTIC animals first <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I sense the next great adventure in Lammoria being a quest to exterminate the cult of the mad cow - not even evil people want this to happen....</blockquote>

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