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It was an eerie and dark night, wolves howled and the wind crackled. It was on such a night dear reader that I came to know an unbearable truth.
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Seven days may not sound like a lot reader, but think of it like this, in the time it will take for me to regain connection over seven generations of mayflies will have lived, fucked, and died.
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Wouldn’t want to become a lord of them, that would be total anarchy. Heh Heh.
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Bad joke aside, today I would like to talk about war with you dear reader.
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I know it must seem out of the blue, but hear me out, war is bad.
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If war is bad, how do you write it.
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Questions, questions, there are always so many, but rarely are answers given in return.
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Luckily, I am here to come to conclusions reader, and conclusions I’m sure to find.Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.
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Let us start with the relevance of war dear reader, not in a geopolitical setting, but one of fiction and fantasy. What can war provide us that other settings cannot?
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And that allows for events one could hardly find a logical excuse for otherwise to be committed without many people asking for a why.
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Of course, war can also be a precise tool in the hands of the skilled, with surgical precision an author can suture himself a world wherein the complexities of war are on full display, for all to admire or to be horrified by.
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Luckily, most authors are not so skilled, so a hammer it shall stay for now.
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Scale.
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The individual falls away in the crowd, and the actions of the crowd bear burden on the individual.
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Hmm
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You lose the effect of person to person interaction, but gain something deeper when in group.
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Something like that.
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Maybe thinking of it like this is better: one, two or even a dozen of people committing great sin can be reasoned away as a few bad apples, hundreds upon thousands however, that’s not so easily thought away.
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My own inadequacies are bearing themselves dear reader, can’t quite get it right.
I think that somewhere there, there is a good enough answer for the ‘why’.
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Which is why I’ll be moving on post-haste.
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Assuredly great revelations aside, a question that I have had was about stories that don’t use this aspect of war, I realize after all that war, while being a horrible thing, is often times more about who wins and who loses and not the implicit actions needed to get to those victories, at least when used as a plot device in fiction.
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To keep a long story short I believe that the aspect of war used to display victory and defeat is the same one used to display a personal struggle, in this case it is likely that the group does not matter, but the protagonist who plays a role in this group.
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Combinations of the two are of course also possible, but I think that’s a topic for tomorrow as I need sleep.
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Sleep well dear reader. I most certainly will.