Is Inquest's tech helpful to us?
So we could have risen to sweep up leaves, and paint the garage, that sort of thing?
I’d prefer them as expendable shock troopers, but… I think the problem here is that it’d be deemed too ‘immoral’. Killing risen is treated as putting them to rest. Using them like this would be seen as enslaving them, especially by people who have had comrades or loved ones become corrupted. As traumatizing as the Orr campaign supposedly was, that’d be a massive “kitten you” to the soldiers who made it possible.
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They could dominate the Risen to control them, and transfer the dragons’ power together to create monsters, would these be helpful if the Pact could take such technology?
In every world ruthless people with terrible intentions leave behind legacies that can be adapted to good.
So the revolting attitude of the Inquest (and of Asuran culture in general, which a sane player should often find abhorrent) isn’t necessarily something that will make every discovery or technology they come up with intrinsically evil- it just determines what they choose to do with it.
However the technologies I think you’re talking about, the ones that explicitly (even if not always knowingly) try to exploit or control the magic of the dragons, are different. In my opinion those will all inevitably, without fail, lead to tragedy.
The magic-technology of Tyria is not like the science-technology of our world.
Our technology relies on forces that have no will or thought behind them at all. The only will involved is the will of the user. That means in our world it’s not very hard to take something that came out of awfulness and put it to good- or the opposite, to pervert something beautiful.
Tyria is different. In Tyria some of the fundamental forces of the universe are actively influenced by powerful, sapient beings with their own motivations and agendas. It’s not just a matter of cause and effect like our world’s electromagnetic energy, gravity, strong force, weak force… Dragon magic in Tyria is imprinted with the essence and will of the dragon you are trying to exploit.
Any technology that relies on magic tainted by that will might be able to resist their agenda for a while- but not forever. The technology itself leaves a weakness open to be exploited by something that possesses power, intellect, and sheer, soul-crushing experience that is hard to imagine. Even another dragon would probably not have hubris enough to assume that comes without consequence.
Honestly, the Inquest’s technology is exactly as useful as other asuran technology.
One in three chance of critically failing backfires.
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I’d prefer them as expendable shock troopers, but… I think the problem here is that it’d be deemed too ‘immoral’. Killing risen is treated as putting them to rest. Using them like this would be seen as enslaving them, especially by people who have had comrades or loved ones become corrupted. As traumatizing as the Orr campaign supposedly was, that’d be a massive “kitten you” to the soldiers who made it possible.
Then how about Destroyers?
I’d prefer them as expendable shock troopers, but… I think the problem here is that it’d be deemed too ‘immoral’. Killing risen is treated as putting them to rest. Using them like this would be seen as enslaving them, especially by people who have had comrades or loved ones become corrupted. As traumatizing as the Orr campaign supposedly was, that’d be a massive “kitten you” to the soldiers who made it possible.
Then how about Destroyers?
Presumably more ethical. With them it’d only be a practical concern of the limitations of the device and both locating and rounding up a large supply of them.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
Presumably more ethical. With them it’d only be a practical concern of the limitations of the device and both locating and rounding up a large supply of them.
Which dragon’s power might work the best on Mordremoth and its minions? Fire, Ice, Crystal or Death?
Personally, I’d default to fire, but I think it’s probably a mistake to trim it down to just an elemental rock-paper-scissors. Of more concern are availability of subjects, both locations and quantity, the unknown limitations of technology (that the device seems to have not worked at CoE but did work seemingly rather shortly thereafter in Arah makes me wonder if it can be overridden so long as the master dragon is alive), and the aforementioned ethical concerns- no point in adopting the technology it it causes desertions that cost just as much, if not more, power than was gained.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
Personally, I’d default to fire, but I think it’s probably a mistake to trim it down to just an elemental rock-paper-scissors. Of more concern are availability of subjects, both locations and quantity, the unknown limitations of technology (that the device seems to have not worked at CoE but did work seemingly rather shortly thereafter in Arah makes me wonder if it can be overridden so long as the master dragon is alive), and the aforementioned ethical concerns- no point in adopting the technology it it causes desertions that cost just as much, if not more, power than was gained.
Why would Primordus stop us from destroying Mordremoth?
I think there is some elemental cycle around the dragons’ power.