''On instinct, you kneel down and give a squirrel a handful of nuts from your pack, the creature looking dreadful thin from the Frost and drawn by the Hysh and Ghyran that flow around you as motes. Yes, yes, the balance of nature, predator and prey, the Cycle, and so on and so forth but what is the point of being adjacent to and capable of examining nature if you could not also, on occasion, supersede it? Nature is not inviolable in the first place, your entire profession is a testament and mark of that.
The Rules of the World should be abided of course, and you will certainly not be warping any beasts for fun; but is a handful of nuts to a singular creature truly such a violation of your ethos? To hear it told by the folk of the White Tower who study Ghur, to the Beastwalkers it is so; but then odds as not that they are simply bitter that so many of that group refused to accede to the tower's authority. You've hardly examined them enough to have an opinion on the matter anyway.''
BTW, I just want to say your writing is great, especially in the sense of making this world feel like a real living one.
Before this quest and FRTI Ulthuan felt, like a placeholder more than a place. Albeit, not as much as Nargaroth. So as a long-time Warhammer fan, I really want to thank you for that!
I actually would love to see us travel more because you make it feel like there really is a world to find out there.
EDIT: Aslo the discussion of these sort of ethics is both familiar and fascinating given I've always been a fond reader of wildlife publications. Ulthuan seems to have gotten luck on the invasive species front overall if I discount the Annuli's.
