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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4868062" data-attributes="member: 2067">A bit, yeah. The whole "Wars and violence basically happen because people who get involved are very sure that they are right (and also that their afterlife is bonus!)" traces a little Richard Dawkins territory.But I think it's OK. It's kind of what fantasy fiction is supposed to do, when it's good: explore big issues about our own world through the delightful filter of strange critters. It did seem kind of a long way to go. The OotS-verse has established Celia as a peace-loving character, but outsiders and elementals fight all the time. The planes are arguably racist in a weirdly justified sort of way ("Ah! Your wings are bat wings and my wings are bird's wings! We must kung-fu fight!"), and demons and other Chaotic outsiders, assuming something reminiscent of the Great Wheel, are all about fighting and destroying things (as are the devils, in their own way, and the lawful outsiders). The big Heaven vs. Hell thing is all about mindless violence, and, actually, illustrates the message of the strip pretty well in and of itself: who is more convinced that they are right than angels and demons and devils?It's a little weak, but it's permissible to me. A thoughtful, quiet, introspective, intimate moment between Roy and Celia where they discuss their relevant subplots is as necessary as the Durkon/V dialogue. Now we have the Belkar/Elan pairing to get to. <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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