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<blockquote data-quote="Knight Otu" data-source="post: 4109023" data-attributes="member: 192">(I'll go on the record to say that, if we'd only sent the crystal, we'd likely not have this problem. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)Ashnar shakes her head sadly. &quot;You will draw first blood.&quot; she says calmly &quot;Sage Thiliaerin has made it abundantly clear that he will do everything to stop the fellowships. One way or another, this war you want will start. We are just a convenient explanation. Confidence and prejudice colored his decisions, and we hear warmongering and threats from you. Is a desire to prevent or delay bloodshed human nature, then, and alien to elves? I don't think so. Are prejudice and warmongering elven nature? No, they aren't. Still, you will draw first blood, and that is what the other nations are going to see. That will be what matters to them. Most will likely even stay on the defensive, forcing you to come to them. Otherwise, your war would be a farce. Do as you must, but don't close your eyes to reality.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Knight Otu, post: 4109023, member: 192"] (I'll go on the record to say that, if we'd only sent the crystal, we'd likely not have this problem. :p) Ashnar shakes her head sadly. "[B]You will draw first blood.[/B]" she says calmly "[B]Sage Thiliaerin has made it abundantly clear that he will do everything to stop the fellowships. One way or another, this war you want will start. We are just a convenient explanation. Confidence and prejudice colored his decisions, and we hear warmongering and threats from you. Is a desire to prevent or delay bloodshed human nature, then, and alien to elves? I don't think so. Are prejudice and warmongering elven nature? No, they aren't. Still, you will draw first blood, and that is what the other nations are going to see. That will be what matters to them. Most will likely even stay on the defensive, forcing you to come to them. Otherwise, your war would be a farce. Do as you must, but don't close your eyes to reality.[/B]" [/QUOTE]

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