11-03-2003, 08:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-03-2003, 09:44 PM by Rhydderch Hael.)
May you perhaps then, look at my words?
The Zakarum in my version are not just bound by Church. It is an actual Empire, with all the social, cultural, and historical trappings found therein.
And the implication that their outermost colony of Westmarch, deep in the Europe-like western lands, would be incorporated into the Empire, its peoples changed and included into it, implies that no one race is exclusive to this fold. You analogize to Islamic faith. Mayhaps you should better consider the Zakarum to be more like the Roman Empire?
You've called my ideas stupid. You've called them ugly. Yet you have not out and out said what is so stupid and ugly about them-- merely danced around with hint, allusion, and analogy. Face the issue: we're talking about a story universe set in a past far removed from our 'tolerant, enlightened' modern perspective, about a world being torn apart by hellish machinations and a quest for anarchy based on sins of hatred, fear, and chaos...
...you were hoping for, maybe, Candyland?
If you do see some ugliness to it, I hope you see it in the portion that I intentionally wished to portray as being ugly. Sanctuary, at my last reckoning, was not a nice world. Definitely not set within the best of times, either.
What troubles you, man? Are you afraid that I would promote racism? Are you fearful that I will glorify inequality and prejudicial hatreds? Maybe you come from these fears because I have not revealed all the aspects or any more of the threads of story I still hold close to my chest, but come know this: the things to be known in the first chapter will change in whole come by the last. Halfway decent stories tend to do that, you know. ;)
And remember: one does not combat the unreason and futility of racism by speaking of nothing but gardening and cooking. One does not illustrate horror and the fears felt in war by speaking little else than of fluffy bunnies and sunlit meadows.
It's not wise to avert your eyes from the object you wish to strike down. Well, you can. But then you're much more likely to miss the mark.
The Zakarum in my version are not just bound by Church. It is an actual Empire, with all the social, cultural, and historical trappings found therein.
And the implication that their outermost colony of Westmarch, deep in the Europe-like western lands, would be incorporated into the Empire, its peoples changed and included into it, implies that no one race is exclusive to this fold. You analogize to Islamic faith. Mayhaps you should better consider the Zakarum to be more like the Roman Empire?
You've called my ideas stupid. You've called them ugly. Yet you have not out and out said what is so stupid and ugly about them-- merely danced around with hint, allusion, and analogy. Face the issue: we're talking about a story universe set in a past far removed from our 'tolerant, enlightened' modern perspective, about a world being torn apart by hellish machinations and a quest for anarchy based on sins of hatred, fear, and chaos...
...you were hoping for, maybe, Candyland?
If you do see some ugliness to it, I hope you see it in the portion that I intentionally wished to portray as being ugly. Sanctuary, at my last reckoning, was not a nice world. Definitely not set within the best of times, either.
What troubles you, man? Are you afraid that I would promote racism? Are you fearful that I will glorify inequality and prejudicial hatreds? Maybe you come from these fears because I have not revealed all the aspects or any more of the threads of story I still hold close to my chest, but come know this: the things to be known in the first chapter will change in whole come by the last. Halfway decent stories tend to do that, you know. ;)
And remember: one does not combat the unreason and futility of racism by speaking of nothing but gardening and cooking. One does not illustrate horror and the fears felt in war by speaking little else than of fluffy bunnies and sunlit meadows.
It's not wise to avert your eyes from the object you wish to strike down. Well, you can. But then you're much more likely to miss the mark.
Political Correctness is the idea that you can foster tolerance in a diverse world through the intolerance of anything that strays from a clinical standard.