On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:11:33 -0800 (PST), S SHafer <shafedog205555-brustfan at yahoo.com> wrote: > But I am still having trouble seeing how your thoughts on the use of > taboo/too dangerous magic relates to mutual assured destruction or > deterrence. Your examples are akin to Russia using nukes to put down > Chechen terrorists. No sane leader would ever do so because he'd > be nuking his own territory (or what they claim to be their territory) > and making it unlivable. I guess you just have to hope that no > insane person gets nukes / a great weapon. We've seen one character unwittingly calling amphoria he could not control. We've seen another character who didn't appear to be interested in anything except his own magical experiments - certainly not about his serfs. We've seen characters who don't have the same standards about people who created a whole river of amphoria for their own inscrutable ends. Off the main stage, we've seen a character willing to kill our favorite goddess. We've seen the cause of the interregnum. We've seen characters experiment in proscribed elder sorcery. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/