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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 2853815" data-attributes="member: 39593">Some clarifications needed?My first post was rather short and not very informative, now that I look at it wasn't written very well either.I had a much longer post prepared that went in depth on the social mentalities, history, reasoning and mechanics of the conflict.  All in all it probably added up to several pages but I lost it on the post and have to reconstruct it from notes scattered in scraps of other things.I didn't mean to imply that the dwarves deny to each other that a conflict is occuring.  The dwarves understand and foster the conflict through their actions and social practices.  They simply refuse to acknowledge anything at all is out of the ordinary to any non-dwarf whatso-ever.  In the vein of -"Nothing to see here folks, nothing at all, move along now" *guard fingers edge of large dwarven war axe*-.  As far as tearing down bridges and such, infiltration and subversion when done properly are seldom that obvious.  They aren't inept, and aren't blind to what's going on.  They're totally rapt up in their own little feud with each other.  Traditionalist and communist each so committed and stubborn, and I figure a dwarven TRUE BELIEVER to be about the most stubborn thing in existence, that neither gains an edge.  The damage is done, but the other side just sucks it up, stubborns things out and rebuilds.  Seeing everything they endure as another proof that they are right and the other side is wrongEDIT: The spies on either side are not inept by dwarven standards.  But I figure dwarves as being so stubborn that they can frequently blinker themselves to ignore what they're certain "can't possibly be true".  The spies aren't comical, generic hickfarmer commoner #7 in town isn't going to be able to easily ferret out the "insidious plots".  But people you'd expect to have some political connection or aptitude with other races are going to be able to see through their cover because they make mistakes peculiar to the dwarven mindset.  Things dwarves have a racial tendency to overlook but others with the right aptitudes notice.  Rogues, aristocrats, those involved in the black market, etc. will tend to be able to spot them because of these things that other dwarves would simply not notice.</blockquote>

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