assumption checksreverancepavaneJanuary 28 2011, 23:15:56 UTC
Why make the assumption that they once dominated a nation? Perhaps the idea of "nation" is something that is so intrinsically very foreign to them. The Aesigils are symbiotic. They don't have personal boundaries since they must bond with a living creature. Why then should they also consider having territorial boundaries? They would naturally spread as they find suitable hosts for their "young." It's humans that fear them who might try to contain them in xenophobic outrage about these "parasites." Since they are spread throughout the Empire, this hasn't happened (or their existence is a secret). Alternatively they sound very much like a magical creation to me. So they may have originated during human times, and have a source rather than a nation. Similarly the Veytikka are a tribal culture. Tribal cultures tend not to create the nation-states you propose. Rather it is a matter of alliances between various tribes, if that. They have ranges in which they live. Being carrion eaters they probably have to travel extensively to
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Re: assumption checkskalevtaitJanuary 31 2011, 10:55:07 UTC
That Aesigils are symbiotic with a living creature does not mean that they need a human or even a sentient host. My feeling is that they started out in symbiotic relationships with non sentient ink-wasps, which may have had limits on where they could survive (thus creating the national borders of the Aesigils). It was only after they started joining with sentients that their borders became meaningless.
Why make the assumption that they once dominated a nation? Perhaps the idea of "nation" is something that is so intrinsically very foreign to them.
The Aesigils are symbiotic. They don't have personal boundaries since they must bond with a living creature. Why then should they also consider having territorial boundaries? They would naturally spread as they find suitable hosts for their "young." It's humans that fear them who might try to contain them in xenophobic outrage about these "parasites." Since they are spread throughout the Empire, this hasn't happened (or their existence is a secret). Alternatively they sound very much like a magical creation to me. So they may have originated during human times, and have a source rather than a nation.
Similarly the Veytikka are a tribal culture. Tribal cultures tend not to create the nation-states you propose. Rather it is a matter of alliances between various tribes, if that. They have ranges in which they live. Being carrion eaters they probably have to travel extensively to ( ... )
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