[quote=@ctrlsaltdel]
[@Randomguy], I don't particularly care for the third Guardian question in the book, but given that Hasdrubal and Arnannel both fought in the Havenite war of conquest, I think an interesting question might be something like this: "We once stood on opposite sides during a battle; what happened there, and which side won?"
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"Two civilisations with conflicting worldviews clashing. Haven saw itself as the master of its own destiny, that they even killed the deity Shun’Aush the Granite Ophid; they saw themselves to be lords of the natural world and tamers of nature. Such that when the solution to the illness that plagued their people necessitated disturbing the balance of nature, they judged such a thing to be justified. The people of Fanewick--my people especially--saw themselves as part of the giant organism that is the forest, such that if they had to perish for the greater whole of the natural world they live in, then so be it. Who won? Well, Haven, of course. Not only had Haven gained what it was looking for, but it also had a whole slew of new territory after routing the resistance. And I cannot say that the 'wrong' side won, per se. Frankly, waging war for the survival of your people at least felt more real than fighting to the death for some nebulous ideology."