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Humans/Elderlings Future Relationship. SPOILER - Rain Wilds
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11-07-2013, 11:47,
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An explanation of future human/Elderlings relationship in light of the Gause's Law.
I think my forray into the Robin Hobb's newsletter will start with precisely that EDIT: To explain myself better (I am really bad at it <.<''' ) I am curious about how a biological principle of competing for the same resources will be played out in a Elderlings/Human situation. Competition for resources between different intelligent races is nothing new in fantasy: elves and man fought for it in Middle Earth, and so did drow and dwarves in Forgotten Realms, or, well, pretty much everywhere you have two different races in one setting. BUT in RoE it is different: it is not so much as the competition itself, but the fact that it is NEW. Humans in RoE aren't used at sharing what they perceives as theirs. When two species with exactly the same needs, resources-wise, come together in nature, the usual results are: 1. One of the two got extinct (happens all the time). 2. One of the two retreats and learn to do with different resources, even slightly different (we can see it in the African savana: the various kind of erbivoures and carnivores don't actually compete, because they eat separate plants/animals. Giraffe and zebras don't compete, obviously, but neither do zebras or gnu, since they eat slightly different grasses. Cheetah don't compete with lions, because lions can't catch the fast gazzellas, and cheetah can't tackle down the big gnus or zebras. And so on.) 3. One of the two goes away. I don't know what kind of organization the ancient Elderlings had with humans, but my guess is some sort of 3. Most humans in the World had nothing whatsoever to do with Elderlings, and the one who did provided them with the resources they needed, acting more or less like medieval-subjects toward the Elderling "Lords". But the resources probably belonged to the Elderlings. I am curious about what kind of relationship is going to happen now, even because Kelsingra has on one side Bingtown and on the other the Soon-To-Be-Seven Duchies... This is a very rare quandary, one that you usually don't see in Fantasy. And I am curious about how it will be declinated... Counting that it WILL have to be declinated in some way, since fantasy has to make sense ò.ò (PS: Fool actually your example about squirrels is... Well. Gray squirrels are destroying red squirrels in the Wild which is an example of what I am saying up here) I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans.
I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax. “What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.” ― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game |
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I really need... - da Tiz - 11-07-2013, 11:47
RE: I really need... - da Garetha - 11-07-2013, 15:13,
RE: I really need... - da Tiz - 11-07-2013, 15:32,
RE: I really need... - da Garetha - 11-07-2013, 15:42,
RE: I really need... - da The Fool - 11-07-2013, 17:07,
RE: I really need... - da Tiz - 11-07-2013, 17:47,
RE: I really need... - da Garetha - 11-07-2013, 18:17,
RE: I really need... - da The Fool - 11-07-2013, 18:22,
RE: I really need... - da Tiz - 13-07-2013, 18:01,
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