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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 2167607" data-attributes="member: 4720"><p>An alternate thought would be that the Illithid most definitely don't know they came from the aboleth, and look down on them as animals. There were many eons of intermediate forms after all. The Illithid looking at the Aboleths as ancestors would be kind of like us looking at a shrew and saying the same.</p><p></p><p>So, perhaps they are drying up the Aboleth habitat in furtherance of some other goal thus inadvertantly setting up the conditions of their own creation? They don't really even take notice of the aboleth in the process. They're like dolphins caught in tuna nets. Inconvenient, expensive, but no big thing to the people doing the catching. Perhaps some of the Illithid that are more grounded in "real world" physics and cause-and-effect take notice of the similarities between themselves and the aboleth. They might put the pieces together and speak out against the destruction of the aboleth, only to be decried as "dangerously logical." These beings, after all, are intimately related to the kind of universes with screwy causality (Far Realms, etc). Attributing their creation to a logical, temporally feed-forward process like evolution would likely be a form of heresy in their society.</p><p></p><p>Or, even more amusingly, they are actively TRYING to wipe out the Aboleths because they find the creatures loathsome. Chain of effect the same.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 2167607, member: 4720"] An alternate thought would be that the Illithid most definitely don't know they came from the aboleth, and look down on them as animals. There were many eons of intermediate forms after all. The Illithid looking at the Aboleths as ancestors would be kind of like us looking at a shrew and saying the same. So, perhaps they are drying up the Aboleth habitat in furtherance of some other goal thus inadvertantly setting up the conditions of their own creation? They don't really even take notice of the aboleth in the process. They're like dolphins caught in tuna nets. Inconvenient, expensive, but no big thing to the people doing the catching. Perhaps some of the Illithid that are more grounded in "real world" physics and cause-and-effect take notice of the similarities between themselves and the aboleth. They might put the pieces together and speak out against the destruction of the aboleth, only to be decried as "dangerously logical." These beings, after all, are intimately related to the kind of universes with screwy causality (Far Realms, etc). Attributing their creation to a logical, temporally feed-forward process like evolution would likely be a form of heresy in their society. Or, even more amusingly, they are actively TRYING to wipe out the Aboleths because they find the creatures loathsome. Chain of effect the same. [/QUOTE]
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