RE: Spheres of Influence: Alliance
08-22-2019, 10:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-22-2019, 10:20 PM by Galloglasses.)
"We didn't trespass on their land." Geród corrected. "They attacked our ship and kidnapped several of our citizens and if Borok is to be believed, explicitly for slavery. And if the number of ghost ships we've found down there are anything to go by, this was very common long before Borok themselves got down there. I am making a comparison between the Elves who Kor Vurneus offended, who have come to us with a deal, however duplicitous, rather than warfare, as opposed to these other elves who happily attack a stranger's ship, enslave its crew and chase the survivors magically through the waters." Geród explained.
"As to their nature, it seems a tad outlandish, but supposedly these Elves are far more aggressive and delight in battle and are more reckless with their lives than the High Elves on the surface we know of. They supposedly taunt the Borokians who have killed some of their number previously. Queen Barda herself claims she has met the very same elf she had slain twice previously in a battle, who even remembered their previous battle, and whose skull she has a keepsake. Because she's Borokian and thats what they do over there."
"There are so battle mad they treat battles themselves as if they were games, or sport, and if they have some sort of resurrective magic, seem utterly unconcerned with the prospect of death, the polar opposite of the Elves we know of normally. So much so that the quality of the armour the elf in question wears, wether impervious Elf-plate or silken robes that couldn't so much as prevent a quill from penetrating the cloth, depends entirely on their own disposition that day. Borok speculates like the High Elves they must be unable to breed, which is why the underworld hasnt been flooded with legions of these maniacs, but still their numbers never seem to dwindle no matter how many of them are killed. Even if the Borokians are wrong about ths,resurrective, ability of the elves down there, their clear aggression, and slaving tendencies concerns me far more than these surface Elves who scheme and plot."
"It certainly concerned the Borokians enough they were willing to make peace with Tiranóg, their otherwise perennial enemies."
"As to their nature, it seems a tad outlandish, but supposedly these Elves are far more aggressive and delight in battle and are more reckless with their lives than the High Elves on the surface we know of. They supposedly taunt the Borokians who have killed some of their number previously. Queen Barda herself claims she has met the very same elf she had slain twice previously in a battle, who even remembered their previous battle, and whose skull she has a keepsake. Because she's Borokian and thats what they do over there."
"There are so battle mad they treat battles themselves as if they were games, or sport, and if they have some sort of resurrective magic, seem utterly unconcerned with the prospect of death, the polar opposite of the Elves we know of normally. So much so that the quality of the armour the elf in question wears, wether impervious Elf-plate or silken robes that couldn't so much as prevent a quill from penetrating the cloth, depends entirely on their own disposition that day. Borok speculates like the High Elves they must be unable to breed, which is why the underworld hasnt been flooded with legions of these maniacs, but still their numbers never seem to dwindle no matter how many of them are killed. Even if the Borokians are wrong about ths,resurrective, ability of the elves down there, their clear aggression, and slaving tendencies concerns me far more than these surface Elves who scheme and plot."
"It certainly concerned the Borokians enough they were willing to make peace with Tiranóg, their otherwise perennial enemies."