I saw this on Facebook.
People are just scary. Some language.
I found this tumblr gold and had to share it.
People are just scary. Some language.
I found this tumblr gold and had to share it.
I was thinking that humans are the best species to plan any sort of series around because of our capacity for evil. Not not to say that all humans are evil just that fact that there are evil traits within human nature that makes us so easy to get corrupted by power. On top of that there is capacity for doing good too, makes us an interesting group.
I think it is a bit lame in fantasy stories where all of a species is good and another species is completely evil. It shouldn't be so homogeneous. Good and evil exist in the hearts of everyone imo.
The elf might have an increased fear of dying and it would take them longer to recover from the death of someone close because they don't deal with it often. An elf community might avoid conflict at any cost if because of this death anxiety, so I imagine they wouldn't be skilled warriors. At the same time though there sense of community would be very strong because of the long-term relationships they develop. Their religion might be more egocentic focusing on the idea of immortality..
I have never thought of it like that. It would interesting to examine the personal psychology of an elf that can live for thousands of years versus an orc that would very uncommon for it to make it to 60.
On the gross nte, we will eat anything. Including hen menstruations (what eggs are), we deliberately rot milk and then eat it (cheese, cream, yoghurt), we also intentionally let fruit juice rot before consuming it (Cider, Perry). As for horror, how about being child-eaters? Wasp larvae is a delicacy in some places... how horrified must the adult wasps be?
Heck, just go read this: Fridge/Humans Are Cthulhu - Television Tropes & Idioms