Thread:Faenor of the Silver Laurel/@comment-25356210-20151203033632/@comment-26444332-20151203035436

Very well... I shall answer your comments as I feel about them, and then I shall answer your comments as I would normally.

Emotionally:

A: Meh. I don't particularly care.

B: Meh. I don't particularly care.

C: Meh. I don't particularly care.

D: Meh. I don't particularly care.

E: I'll darned well make threats of leaving if I want to. You have no right to stop me from anything. And they aren't petty; I have a rather fragile mental state that I work hard to maintain. I ask or say I'm going to leave, not because I particularly want to, but because I'd like to hear the arguments that I should stay. Which, by-the-by, aren't all that good.

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Logically:

A: Faenor's magic may be extreme, but he has severe limitations to go along with that power. Imagine this: Edacnik can only breath a jet of flame about the size of a fist, and if he does any more, he'll choke on his own blood as he experiences massive cardiac arrest and slowly dies, agonizingly. Do you want that to happen to your character? Of course not. But it happens to mine. I put the limitations on him specifically to stop him being so overpowered.

B: No, he does not. Think about it this way: If Legolas could have practiced for four Ages, and fought in all the major engagements of those four Ages(along with many minor ones) would he be a better archer? Of course. But he didn't, and Faenor has. So, Legolas doesn't compare.

C: He can't challenge Morgoth! Have I not made this clear! Without the advantage of surprise or Morgoth's knowledge and emotions of fear, Faenor would be crushed like a gnat! The only thing keeping him alive in those confrontations is superior agility(Morgoth is massive and lumbering) and his magic. The only reason Faenor defeated Sauron in combat is because Sauron was by a shadow, and only the Necromancer at the time.

D: That's not true. You can have forever to train, and you can get progressively better at it. But training and the real thing aren't the same, and Faenor's done both. Not every Elf can take on an army of Orcs. Not even Faenor(depending on the army's size). If the army was even moderately sized(and the armies of the Enemy are limitless) Faenor would be surrounded and killed, by sheer numbers if nothing else.

E: I'll make threats of leaving if I want to. You have no right and no power to stop me from anything, least of all my decisions. And they aren't petty; I have a rather fragile mental and emotional state that I work hard to maintain. I say I'm going to leave, not because I particularly want to, but because I'd like to hear the arguments that I should stay. Which, by-the-by, aren't all that good. I stay out of love for the things here, not for any personal attachment to the people. I really could care less if there were people I knew or no. I'm not a people person. I'm a silent-sit-there-and-mull-over-the-philosophy-book person. For all I know or care, you could be an autonomous intelligence created for the purpose of annoying me to no end. I choose to believe you're a person with real thoughts and feelings, and as such you would probably be outraged by the previous statement. I don't particularly care all that much. If you want to rant and rave about how insensitive I am, go ahead. I still probably won't care. It does not affect my life in any significant manner.

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There. Now you've brought out the cold and harsh side of me, the part I didn't want to portray here. I like to have the appearance of being friendly. And now you've gone and made me shatter that image. So thank you very much, Edacnik, for ruining a perfectly horrible day.

Faenor of the Silver Laurel, Former Lord of Lóriën  (Send me a carrier pidgeon!) 03:54, December 3, 2015 (UTC)