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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 778720" data-attributes="member: 6929">That's what I always thought of the Auselen. "We're better than you, we don't need your gods to rule us." It's a very philisophical religion, yet one in which the strong rule. I also like the idea of dragons from another world... they probably share that philosophy, after all, and a really big dragon is probably a match for a formian army (if we go with that)... and what's to say they don't have cousins sleeping somewhere else?Either way, this is an age when restraint is unknown. The humans have never wondered what would happen were they to have a serious mage throw-down, and cosmic forces like formians or slaadi couldn't care less about one little continent. I can seriously see 8th level spell casters being hunted down after they screw up the world, thus accounting for a 'magical dark age' when technology advances to compensate for the lost magic... (Also consider that 15th-level characters are capable of taking on formians quite effectively, especially in a 'dungeon' environment. Increased magic means increased elitist units in the form of adventurers, which in turn means a greater emphasis on surgical strikes against powerful personages.)And yes, having a 'bail-out switch' in the form of the Sisters is a good plan. If we carry on with my suggestion, we'll probably need one. Remember: Arms races sometimes come up with things that nobody wants to use. Agreeing not to use something is as much a valid tactic as actually using it. Look at nuclear weapons, or high-grade chemical weaponry like they didn't use in WWII. That stuff is terrifying (more so than you realise, probably, say my military consultants). Similarly, if certain high-level powers start getting hurled around, people are going to put together some banning treaties pretty fast.</blockquote>

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