He watches calmly--but he is certainly not going to declare your goals just, only from your say-so. The loss of life--not only on their own world, but multiple others--is unconscionable. Just because you don't think they're alive doesn't mean they aren't. Just because you deem their lives lesser is no reason to destroy them. It's not the sundered's fault your world was destroyed. The mortal races didn't ask to get caught up in this.
He would empathize. He would. But...the ends do not always justify the means.]
You think I would not understand, because I am inherently lesser than you. Perhaps you are correct. What is a mortal life to an immortal one, but a candle set against an inferno?
That does not mean we do not have the right to live, or to fight to protect our own.
[He knew Nidhogg's grief. He'd felt it, keenly as it was his own, when their souls were intertwined. How things could have changed, if the elder wyrm could be reached, reasoned with. But nay, he did not change his course, and therefore his death was the only way to stop the bloodshed--for not even all Nidhogg's children wished to fight with man, but the control their sire had over them would drive them mad if they did not. Faunheim was proof of that.]
I tire of this. You say that we cannot understand your reasoning--yet you also cannot understand why we fight to oppose you. Or you do, and have decided that because we are lesser, it matters not. Is that perspective enough?
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He watches calmly--but he is certainly not going to declare your goals just, only from your say-so. The loss of life--not only on their own world, but multiple others--is unconscionable. Just because you don't think they're alive doesn't mean they aren't. Just because you deem their lives lesser is no reason to destroy them. It's not the sundered's fault your world was destroyed. The mortal races didn't ask to get caught up in this.
He would empathize. He would. But...the ends do not always justify the means.]
You think I would not understand, because I am inherently lesser than you. Perhaps you are correct. What is a mortal life to an immortal one, but a candle set against an inferno?
That does not mean we do not have the right to live, or to fight to protect our own.
[He knew Nidhogg's grief. He'd felt it, keenly as it was his own, when their souls were intertwined. How things could have changed, if the elder wyrm could be reached, reasoned with. But nay, he did not change his course, and therefore his death was the only way to stop the bloodshed--for not even all Nidhogg's children wished to fight with man, but the control their sire had over them would drive them mad if they did not. Faunheim was proof of that.]
I tire of this. You say that we cannot understand your reasoning--yet you also cannot understand why we fight to oppose you. Or you do, and have decided that because we are lesser, it matters not. Is that perspective enough?