Wierdest battle i ever saw.

[Arryn]

archaeolept said:
rationality is in such short supply that I doubt we have a sufficient sample size

Not true. Rational people avoid politics and pollsters like the plague. And women are too busy with the important things in life to waste time answering silly questions. This perfectly accounts for the skewed statistics.

EDIT: important things like shopping or getting a facial, etc.

[Cheezeninja]

Arryn said:

EDIT: important things like shopping or getting a facial, etc.

Ahhh Arryn, you saw me coming and headed my comment off at the pass. While men are indeed more violent than women it all seems extremely rational to me. We wage war and commit violence upon one another because we want what others have and (often mistakenly) believe our lives will be better if we try to take it by force, women on the other hand often seem content to live in silent misery themselves before attempting to assert their wills on others using force. Men are often stupider than women, but its comprehensible stupidity due to hubris.

To me the subjugation of women throughout the greater part of human history makes perfect sense... Who doesn't have a part of them that would greatly enjoy having total control over members of the opposite sex? Without the social morality that's now (hopefully) instilled in us at an early age and the existence of efficient means of disseminating information on how truly brutal said subjugation becomes in actual practice it would be alot easier for those with the power to oppress others to justify the oppression. It makes perfect sense to me although hopefully I'd be intelligent and empathetic enough not to do the same thing were i put in that position.

[Stormbinder]

I think we are geting more and more off-topic here, into the foggy realm of feminism and antifeminism... My point was that no matter was that bloodslave "he", "she", or "it" - that human was a hero, and has earned the right to be recognised by his God. Anybody objects to this statement? >

[Zen]

I believe that most blood slaves are female for only the reason that you evicerate them, pour their blood onto a pyre or brazier and chant at it until something big, ugly, and built for killing happens to wander over with a cartoonlike waft of the smoke and pledges it's undying service to you.

Seems to fit both ideals to me.

[The Panther]

A blood slave is actually doubly female! For you lose 2 population when you create one slave. Perhaps the virgin's mother commits suicide when her daughter is taken into slavery??? Or the mother dies trying to free her daughter from the slave masters?

I wonder...

[Cainehill]

Or, the troops helping collect the blood slaves, help themselves to the ones who weren't virgin enough?

[archaeolept]

i'm well nigh certain that the garnets when they're gathering blood slaves aren't looking for the girls...

and that "disembowelling" isn't how they let the blood flow...

[Stormbinder]

The Panther said:
A blood slave is actually doubly female! For you lose 2 population when you create one slave. Perhaps the virgin's mother commits suicide when her daughter is taken into slavery??? Or the mother dies trying to free her daughter from the slave masters?

I wonder...

.. or maybe only pregnant virgins would do as a blood sacriface???


Don't look at me, it is a fantasy world after all...
Besides huge number of religions of the Ancient World had virgins giving birth, and Dom2 is all about religions...

[Cheezeninja]

What still puzzles me is that there were so many more bloodslaves in the battle than on the apprentices.... Has anyone else seen this happen?