"I've never seen it happen, but you hear stories of what happens when you push an Eldar to live when they actually want to die. Apparently their spirit just sort of... burns away the flesh until it can't sustain them any more. And I suppose that's a difference, between your world and mine. The Eldar - well. Glorfindel the Balrog Slayer returned to Life, and to Middle-earth, not long before I headed off to Elenna - so there's proof! And well. When your foster-fathers learnt at the feet of the Powers, it's rather hard to argue about belief!"
He frowns thoughtfully as he listens.
"That's ... yeah, there does seem to be a bit of wild swinging from one extreme to another, although I suppose I can understand that sort of impulsive reaction. It seems to me what you really need is someone from both sides who can be moderate, and who has enough political oomph to basically force people to sit down and negotiate something that no one is happy with but everyone can live with because it is fair."
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"I've never seen it happen, but you hear stories of what happens when you push an Eldar to live when they actually want to die. Apparently their spirit just sort of... burns away the flesh until it can't sustain them any more. And I suppose that's a difference, between your world and mine. The Eldar - well. Glorfindel the Balrog Slayer returned to Life, and to Middle-earth, not long before I headed off to Elenna - so there's proof! And well. When your foster-fathers learnt at the feet of the Powers, it's rather hard to argue about belief!"
He frowns thoughtfully as he listens.
"That's ... yeah, there does seem to be a bit of wild swinging from one extreme to another, although I suppose I can understand that sort of impulsive reaction. It seems to me what you really need is someone from both sides who can be moderate, and who has enough political oomph to basically force people to sit down and negotiate something that no one is happy with but everyone can live with because it is fair."