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“That was life for my people.”
“Abduction. Forced labour. Breeding camps. Murder.”
“My great-great-grandma lived through it.”
“She was born to serve a powerful fire dragon. She was lucky enough to have a talent for ringsmifing, so she was kept in a nearby dungeon instead of being sent on raids.”
“Her parents weren’t so lucky. Not that she could even remember who they were.”
“That’s as far back as I can trace my family, Ricki. Some of us aren’t even that lucky.”
“Imagine spending your entire life like that. Never seeing anything but tunnels and death.”
“Never seeing the moon, or stars.”
“Never seeing the sun.”
“…Until one day, you saw Him.”
Hey, that’s Big Sally!
Is that a tealight on the nightstand? I thought he had tealights on the mantle, and a lantern on the nightstand?
So basically, Ricki, your people need to suffer, be slaughtered and oppressed, so that my people aren’t.
Correction:
So basically Ricki, both of our people need to live in ghettos/work camps, be good, and pray to the Emperor, because he saved my people from a situation dramatically more horrible than that and I Believe that he’ll continue to make things better if he can.
It may not be true, but I’m pretty sure he believes it.
Yeah, it’s this: that is a person who believes the empire is a new good because he came from a worse situation, while Riciki came from a better one. I can see why it’s very hard to look at force breeding, labor camps, and death as worse than what you have now. The Empire is evil but I understand why he is able to believe in it.
Did Macadamia really see this? Or they told him.
He said his great-great grandmother lived through it (meaning the fighting and breeding camps and such). It would be weird to use that phrasing if he had a closer relative who lived through it, which implies to me that his great-great grandmother (and maybe great grandparent, as a child?) were the ones who witnessed this.
I feel like they just traded one tyrant for another, just the emperor got a BUNCH more fodder races working under them.
And is WAY more hands-off. We saw ghettos, which kind of force people to do what they have to to get by, but that’s at least a step or two freer then work camps. And no signs of breeding camps.
The dragon cult is good indicator that The Emperor either drove off or outright wiped out the dragons. Also, there could be more to it than Mac’s version, why would any kobold chance such a fate otherwise.
First glimpse of the emperor AND an explanation of why ringsmiffing has to take place in a dungeon, both in the same comic page!