(07-06-2016, 12:27 PM)Yssen Wrote: There is a large assumption running around that The Elementals are benevolent, largely because the Grids say they are. The Grids are... less than reliable narrators/sources when it comes to this. When you look at a lot of the ways The Elementals work going all the way back to 1.0, you get very "IF YOUR GOD TELLS YOU TO BURN CHILDREN, THEN IT IS EVIL!" vibe.
The ultimate point being that the Elementals are not, never have been, and probably never will be, anything close to human. They don't have our morals, or values. The Gridanians talk about them as benevolent, and ascribe benevolent motives to them, and maybe they are. But people should never forget that the Elementals are extremely divorced from the morality of the mortal world.
Which is not to say that they're malicious. But, real person talk here - tornadoes are not "malicious," but they still kill the shit out of people.
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