No, that's nonsense logic. One doesn't follow from the other at all.
Respectfully? It does follow. The resources available to a First Age Solar are vast beyond imagining.
The First Age city of Opal Spire(Dreams of the First Age: Lands of Creation p147-148), which was explicitly packed with reality engines for magitech terraforming, was funded by one Solar, even though he had the political support of others.
What is their mortality again?
Not sure what you mean by this.
Their life expectancy? No idea. Its described as a hard life in the core, and that active Shih age quickly, but there are no figures given. Given that the canon Shih essentially ran a master-apprentice system for training and that apprentices were trained for 15-20 years, it cant have been all that bad if they kept passing it down.
You don't take a dog to a dentist, or to school, or, as I understand it, to a cinema.
Yes you can, actually.
Not into the OR, but most dentists have no problem with well-behaved pets and animals in waiting rooms; same with a lot of modern cinemas. And if they are covered under the Americans With Disabilities Act, or the whole emotional support animal thing. Hell, Dresden has used this ruse with Mouse at least once in the books IIRC, and keeps one of those vests in his car.
Not to mention that there's a fomor analogue of Anonymity as well.
And most of those don't apply to emanation arcana we make.
Emanation arcana are spirits, all the way to their ability to recover from being killed.
The same way that Bane is a spirit.
Expect them to apply.
My mother was 21 when I was born via c-section. She was very petite and there was some concern that a natural birth could be dangerous for her. Me as well, IIRC; big head plus narrow pelvis...
Yeah, those happen.
Usually you have that diagnosed a couple of prenatal visits before the due date.
And usually they prefer not to put the mother under general anesthesia; spinal block is usually sufficient.
Of course, not a sim, so the QM probably forgot that if Rosie was scheduled for an elective CS, she would have probably have talked about it with her friend.
Which is how Dresden and most DF wizards get by. Their mental defenses aren't exactly amazing.
True.
That's one leg of the problem, but I see no reasonable way they'd have any diplomatic weight at all if they're fodder.
Because they are mortal, and thus get particular consideration?
Its a commonality of both the Dresden Files and KOTE that the Middle Kingdom is supposed to be for mortals, and that there's a bunch of people around who have an interest in keeping it that way.
Those are basic things that he can easily be corrected on and are treated as pretty stable across the books. You could use this argument to shoot down almost everything we know from the series.
I dont agree.
My point was that vampire in WoD terms means something very different from what the DF mean by it, but things like Lydia's spirit killer will work on whampires. Things like shen/demons should be treated as more general spirits.
Shen is a pretty expansive term iirc, used for essentially all supernatural beings, including wizards.
It includes everything from werewolves and similar therianthropes to fae, elementals, god-like spirits and everything in-between.
Not all of them will count as spirits.
You don't nuke people who aren't a threat, you save it for people who're actually a threat. It's not like the Yama Kings have infinite resource or leverage to apply what they do possess in the mortal world. While it could have been someone else there's no reason believe it and the same reasoning applies.
What I'm hearing from you is that the Shih flailed around accomplishing nothing, but somehow enough damage was done to earn them additional resources and attention then later a WMD just cause. Despite the fact that everyone interested and capable of pulling it off having better things to do with their time and energy.
Seems vastly more plausible that they were effective enough to earn higher priority treatment and an expensive strategic bombing attempting to keep them down.
Point of correction:
You dont have to nuke people who arent a threat. You can still choose to do it, whether for revenge, as punishment, a demonstration to someone else, or as part of an empowerment ritual, or even just for the hell of it.
Like I said, we dont know who nuked the Celestial Army even in the modern day.
The usual suspects would usually brag about that sort of thing, but apparently they didnt say a word. For all we know, same dude who smote the Wan Kuei did it.
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Summary of shih history, because Im not typing out the whole chapter:
Excellent Archer Yi founded the Shih back when the Wan Kuei ran rampant and were secret masters of the kingdom.
He and his allies, including the Shih + some shen + the army of the Chou barbarians fought against the Wan Kuei + the army of the Shang dynasty + some other shen + Yama King aid.
Yi and the Celestial Dragon Kung Kung make a decisive intervention near the war's climax with literally divine weapons(a bow made of the Trees of Immortality and arrows of white jade) to shoot down 9 demon suns raised by the Yama Kings, cursing both the Yama Kings and Kuejin in the process.
They win and sweep much of the country.
Yi lays a final death curse on the Wan Kuei, inflicting the sunlight bane on them, then dies.
The victorious Shih form the Celestial Army and are ascendant for roughly two hundred years; the population of vampires had been winnowed hard. But they begin to go after all shen, not just what shen are breaking the natural rules/the natural order of things. The Celestial Army gets nuked, and the wandering shih go back to being wanderers.
Thats the canon story in Demon Hunter X chapter 1.
As funny as this would be, it seems unlikely that a lore of flesh 5 demon couldn't work out birth control.
Literal first time having sex in the real?
I would not be at all surprised if she didnt think it necessary to bother, and then ended up with an unplanned pregnancy.
Or even that she botched. Non-standard body after all.
After all, thats how Maggie was conceived: unplanned intercourse with Susan without prophylactic contraception.
And then Susan either didnt use emergency contraception, or did and it failed.
Pretty sure that was a group, an entire faction of Solars, not individual madmen.
Sure. But thats the point. Small numbers of Solars were capable of pushing mega projects just fine.
The Cauldronists, for example, were invested in expanding Creation's borders and kept doing so. I AM, the computer system/AI that all of First Age Creation ran on, was invented by one Solar student of Brilliant Shattered Ice in their lab. There were only 5 members of the Black Nadir Concordiat, 2 of them Lunars, that violated the Neverborn to discover Necromancy.
The argument that economic constraints were a limiting factor just dont seem credible.
