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<blockquote data-quote="LurkAway" data-source="post: 5726089" data-attributes="member: 6685059"><p>There's still a missing link between 'we scapegoat foreigners' (done easily enough as suggested) to 'down with ALL gods' (an extremist case of throwing out the baby with the bathwater) and especially to 'we are the heirs of the universe'.</p><p></p><p>Again, I don't think analogies can be made to the real world -- unless you truly believe that humans are in fact the 3rd most intelligent race on earth after mice and dolphins <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>I think this empire needs to have a sincere advantage (or serious brainwashing) in order to believe itself militarily and intellectually superior to all races and non-humans. Mechanically, it's all bad news: for example, we have an army composed of single-digit hit point soldiers who believe themselves superior to entities that are literally on paper waaaay more powerful.</p><p></p><p>Simultaneously, a nascent scientific intellectual class believes they can learn the biology behind psionics (starting at pre-industrial technology and not even a microscope invented yet) and the magic behind magic (without actually having the best magical minds and arcane concentration of power in the universe).</p><p></p><p>And they think they're going to accomplish all that just after alienating the non-humans and the very gods themselves.</p><p></p><p>And they're going to believe all that according to default human nature? I think that is clunky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LurkAway, post: 5726089, member: 6685059"] There's still a missing link between 'we scapegoat foreigners' (done easily enough as suggested) to 'down with ALL gods' (an extremist case of throwing out the baby with the bathwater) and especially to 'we are the heirs of the universe'. Again, I don't think analogies can be made to the real world -- unless you truly believe that humans are in fact the 3rd most intelligent race on earth after mice and dolphins ;) I think this empire needs to have a sincere advantage (or serious brainwashing) in order to believe itself militarily and intellectually superior to all races and non-humans. Mechanically, it's all bad news: for example, we have an army composed of single-digit hit point soldiers who believe themselves superior to entities that are literally on paper waaaay more powerful. Simultaneously, a nascent scientific intellectual class believes they can learn the biology behind psionics (starting at pre-industrial technology and not even a microscope invented yet) and the magic behind magic (without actually having the best magical minds and arcane concentration of power in the universe). And they think they're going to accomplish all that just after alienating the non-humans and the very gods themselves. And they're going to believe all that according to default human nature? I think that is clunky. [/QUOTE]
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