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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6697320" data-attributes="member: 5143">The problem is that Kender are written so inconsistently.  They don't make sense because everything written about them is so contradictory.  They have no fear.  But Tasslehoff in the books continuously rationalizes behavior that would only come from fear by saying "He is just concerned about his friends", "He doesn't FEEL like dying just yet", "He'd miss his friends too much, so he wants to stay here for now" or "Something about the way Raistlin looked at him made him want to avoid taking Raistlin's stuff".It's Kender tradition to "dump everything out and share" when they meet each other because they have no concept of property and want to share interesting things they've "collected"(after all, the things they have don't belong to themselves, either).  Yet they never think to give anything back to the actual people they found them on.  Borrowing implies a desire to give things back when they are done with them.  Having no sense of property means they never believed those items BELONGED to someone in the first place.  Whether that dagger is in their bag or someone else's bag...who cares?  Both places are just as good as any for that dagger to stay.  But being in the Kender's possession makes the item a lot easier to examine and have fun with.The entire point of the race is that they get really confused when people ask them to put things back.  Why would they put them back?  They have them now and they are interesting items.  I mean, maybe if they had something else to occupy their attention for a while, they could leave the item they just took here since you only need so many items to look at.The books say that in Kender villages sometimes all of a Kender's furniture or food will just go missing one day as other Kender enter their house and steal it all.  But sometimes they'll leave new stuff there as they get bored with it while picking up their other stuff.  Which is fine because if a Kender finds himself without a chair or something, he'll just wander into the nearest house and take one of theirs.  There's never an intention to give anything back.  They needed a chair, there was one around.  So, might as well take it and use it.  When it goes missing...who cares, it didn't belong to them anyways.  I believe one of the novels said that an item that stayed in a Kender household for over 2 weeks was considered an heirloom. But "borrowing" is never something I've heard used in terms of Kender(other than used as a justification to steal things..."Oh...this?  I was just borrowing it for a while").  They don't give things back, they just drop the things they've collected randomly and steal new things to replace them.</blockquote>

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