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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 3417291" data-attributes="member: 49613">Maybe the alien physiologies and unnatural longevity of the squiddies means that they periodically lapse into long periods of torpor.  They fall asleep and when they wake up whole new races exist to foil their plans.  This is why they have to rely on abstruse and inefficient magics and schemes which are so far-reaching that they have to reliably span thousands of years.It also makes them scary because anybody who lives less than a thousand years or two after a 'victory' will never really know if the 'victory' was genuine, or part of a larger, even more insidious scheme.  Mortal races simply don't live long enough to out-think them.  On the other hand, ironically, it makes the schemes of the squiddies more susceptible to entropy due to the "butterfly effect".</blockquote>